This will be the cardinal’s sixth visit back to Ukraine, this time to bring aid to Kherson amid floods.
Lucia, who was 10 years old at the time of the 1917 Marian apparitions, outlived the other visionaries by decades, surviving until age 97.
The French bishops’ conference said the official investigation has come at the request of the superior general of the Paris Foreign Mission Society.
On the 400th anniversary of the birth of Blaise Pascal, the Vatican Library displayed first editions of some of his most famous works.
Archbishop Ettore Balestrero most recently served as the apostolic nuncio to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The Vatican released a new document on June 20 outlining key questions for the upcoming 16th General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops.
“Discernment” topics include women deacons, priestly celibacy, and greater decision-making by the “People of God.”
The Vatican announced June 19 that the 80-year-old Jesuit cardinal will take on the role as the “Cardinalis Patronus.”
Pope Francis met with U.S. President Joe Biden’s climate envoy John Kerry at the Vatican on Monday.
Pope Francis published an apostolic letter on Monday praising the 17th-century mathematician Blaise Pascal as “a tireless seeker of truth.”
The 86-year-old pope smiled and waved from the window of the Apostolic Palace as he gave thanks for prayers and messages he received.
The secretary-general told the council June 14 to look to the human fraternity declaration signed by the pope and grand imam in 2019 as “a model.”
The 86-year-old pope is currently recovering in Rome’s Gemelli Hospital one week after he underwent a three-hour surgery for an incisional hernia.
While continuing his recovery in the hospital, Pope Francis called attention to cultural changes that lead people to stop caring for others.
The famous Franciscan saint was not born where most people assume he was. In August, World Youth Day participants can visit his real hometown.
The Vatican said Monday that Pope Francis is working from the hospital as he recovers from hernia surgery.
The Italian billionaire media baron died on June 12 at the age of 86. He was Italy’s longest-serving head of government.
Corpus Christi is a 700-year-old feast in the Catholic Church that commemorates the real presence of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.
In a letter to the European People’s Party, the pope urged politicians to be united on “issues where primary ethical values ... are at stake.”
Pope Francis is recovering from abdominal surgery this week in the same hospital room where St. John Paul II was treated throughout his pontificate.