Archive for January 28, 2016

A ditch filled with sewage and garbage in a street of South Sudan. ?w=200&h=150

By Elise Harris

It's time to put the heat on South Sudan's leaders, bishop says

Bishop Santo Loku Pio Doggale joined his brother prelates from South Sudan and Sudan for a time of rest and... Read more

Pope Francis meets with actor Leonardo DiCaprio at the Vatican on Jan. 28, 2016. ?w=200&h=150

By Elise Harris

Pope Francis meets Leonardo DiCaprio at the Vatican

On Thursday Pope Francis met briefly with actor and environmental activist Leonardo DiCaprio, who recently won an award for his... Read more

Pope Francis embraces the sick at a General Audience in St. Peter's Square, Nov. 18, 2015. ?w=200&h=150

By Elise Harris

Ask Mary's help if illness makes it hard to trust God's mercy, Pope Francis advises

While the experience of illness can certainly test our faith, for Pope Francis it is an opportunity to entrust ourselves... Read more

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By Matt Hadro

Yes, ISIS is guilty of genocide, says European human rights group

Europe’s leading human rights body passed a resolution on Wednesday calling ISIS atrocities a “genocide,” a week before the European... Read more

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Pope Francis prays in front of the tomb of St. Mark the Evangelist inside St. Mark's Basilica in Venice on April 28, 2024.

Pope Francis’ visit to Venice showcases art as means of encounter, fraternity 

Pope Francis waves while traveling by boat in Venice, Italy, for a meeting with young people at the Basilica della Madonna della Salute on April 28, 2024. Earlier in the day he met with inmates at a women's prison.

Pope Francis arrives in Venice, meets with women inmates and artists

Members of the Provincial Episcopal Assembly of Bukavu (ASSEPB).

Democratic Republic of Congo bishops: Amid growth of Church ‘the Congolese state is dead’

Prayer house at San Simeone, Italy, September 2012.

Catholic movement in Italy dedicated to people ‘far from the Church’

Father Leo Riley, age 68, continued to serve as a priest for years after a 2020 sexual abuse lawsuit was filed against him and the Diocese of Venice in Florida.

Florida priest continued in active ministry for three years after sex abuse lawsuit filed

Pope Francis meets Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and her 6-year-old daughter on Jan. 10, 2023.

Pope Francis to attend G7 summit to speak on artificial intelligence

Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, who died at the age of 24 in 1925, is beloved by many Catholic young people today for his enthusiastic witness to holiness that reaches “to the heights.”

Pier Giorgio Frassati could be canonized during 2025 Jubilee, cardinal says

Gia Chacón (right), founder of March for the Martyrs, said the plight of the tens of thousands of Christian Armenians pushed out of their homes in the disputed Artsakh or Nagorno-Karabakh region hash been "completely overlooked by the mainstream media.”

March for the Martyrs raises awareness of persecuted Armenian Christians and more

The members of the general board of directors of the Regnum Christi Federation, before its first general convention from April 29 to May 4, 2024, in Rome.

Regnum Christi: ‘It would have been easy to run and hide,’ but the Church is ‘purifiying’ us

Facade of the Plurinational Legislative Assembly of Bolivia.

Analysis: Jesuit sex abuse scandal in Bolivia could be used politically to repress Church

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