Nov 30, 2020 - 07:30 am .- Pope Francis met with Lebanon’s Maronite patriarch at the Vatican this weekend and told the pope of the challenges facing Lebanon as it experiences political instability and a “bitter economic crisis.”
Nov 30, 2020 - 06:30 am .- Pope Francis told the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Monday that he is confident that Catholics and Orthodox Christians will attain full communion.
Nov 30, 2020 - 04:00 am .- Forty-three Italian priests died in November after contracting the coronavirus, as Italy experiences a second wave of the epidemic.
Nov 29, 2020 - 08:30 am .- Pope Francis has asked people to pray for Ethiopia’s Tigray region, where the United Nations has said that “a full-scale humanitarian crisis is unfolding.”
Nov 29, 2020 - 05:40 am .- On the first Sunday of Advent, Pope Francis recommended a traditional Advent prayer to invite God to draw close during this new liturgical year.
Nov 28, 2020 - 09:07 pm .- As surging COVID-19 cases lead to new restrictions in the San Francisco area, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone said the treatment of churches is discriminatory and violates the right to worship.
Nov 28, 2020 - 04:35 pm .- Wry jokes and memes about the decided awfulness of the year 2020 - with the pandemic, ensuing lockdowns and economic distress, as well as civil unrest in a turbulent election year - are well known to just about anyone on social media.
Nov 28, 2020 - 10:30 am .- Pope Francis created 13 new cardinals Saturday, urging them to remain vigilant lest they lose sight of their goal of the cross and resurrection.
Nov 28, 2020 - 03:48 am .- Servant of God Floripes de Jesús, better known as Lola, was a Brazilian laywoman who lived on the Eucharist alone for 60 years.
Nov 27, 2020 - 01:00 pm .- The French bishops’ conference announced Friday that it would submit another appeal to the Council of State, calling the proposed 30-person limit on public Masses during Advent “unacceptable.”
Nov 27, 2020 - 12:00 pm .- A new archbishop took the helm in the Canadian archdiocese of Halifax-Yarmouth Friday.
Nov 27, 2020 - 11:30 am .- Vatican investigators have been granted full access to Swiss banking documentation related to long-time Vatican investment manager Enrico Crasso.
Nov 27, 2020 - 11:00 am .- A religious sister who knew Venerable Maria Laura Mainetti said the woman, who was murdered 20 years ago as part of a Satanic ritual, made the ordinary extraordinary by her love, and found joy in her service to young people, whom she called “my Jesus.”
Nov 27, 2020 - 10:20 am .- An art restorer in Germany has offered to restore a decapitated statue of the Virgin Mary free of charge.
Nov 27, 2020 - 09:00 am .- A statue of the Virgin Mary in a public square in a suburb of Venice, Italy, was vandalized Thursday night.
Nov 27, 2020 - 08:20 am .- A Nigerian archbishop has asked for prayers for the safe release of a priest kidnapped in Abuja earlier this week.
Nov 27, 2020 - 07:00 am .- In a video message to a Catholic social doctrine conference on Thursday, Pope Francis said that remembering our baptism and the promise of eternal life can help us avoid the temptation to seek “utopia” in this world.
Nov 27, 2020 - 06:00 am .- Cardinal Christoph Schönborn deplored Friday an attack on a rabbi in the Austrian capital, Vienna.
Nov 27, 2020 - 05:00 am .- A Vatican dicastery launched a new campaign Friday urging young people to share wisdom gleaned from the elderly facing Christmas alone because of the pandemic.
Nov 27, 2020 - 04:00 am .- “Tolton: From Slave to Priest,” aims to share an important story for Black Catholics at a moment of racial division.
