Vatican City: (Courtney Mares/CAN) Pope Francis has named Dominican Father Steven Maekawa, a former active duty military chaplain, as the next bishop of Fairbanks, Alaska.

The Vatican announced the appointment on July 11. Father Maekawa will take on the role of leading a diocese that sp

Vatican City: (By Benedict Mayaki, SJ) Pope Francis continued his cycle of reflections on the theme of discernment during his catechesis at the Wednesday General Audience.

Addressing the faithful, the Pope highlighted that good discernment also requires self-knowledge because “it

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — On the day Pope Francis established as a day of prayer for peace in Ukraine, the pope appealed for an end to all war and prayed that dialogue, the common good and reconciliation would prevail.

“Let us ask the Lord to grant that the country may grow in th

VATICAN CITY: (RNS) In his annual address to diplomats accredited to the Holy See this month, Pope Francis “hit out at ‘cancel culture,'” as one headline put it. But the pontiff wasn’t complaining about how the twitterverse had banished Ellen DeGeneres or urged a boyco

Vatican City: (Vatican News) Pope Francis on Saturday met participants in the plenary assembly of the Vatican Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life and thanked them for their service.

By Robin Gomes

“Everything we do is at the se

Vatican City: (Vatican News) In an interview with OSA, an Italian Social and Work Cooperative that provides social and health welfare services, the Pope offers his encouragement for the help it offers to many people living in darkness “to not to feel alone.”

The Rome-based O

VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis, along with other religious leaders and scientists, will present a joint declaration to the president of the COP26 climate summit on Monday at the Vatican, promising to encourage the faithful to care for creation and, in turn, urging governments to do their part to curb

Vatican City: (CNA) Pope Francis and Jane Goodall both offered perspectives on “what it means to be human” on the final day of an online Vatican health conference on Saturday.

In a video message to the virtual conference on May 8, the pope said that Saint Augustine’s w

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL: (Stefan J Bos for BosNewsLife) Kosovo has become the first Muslim-majority nation to open an embassy in Israel’s capital Jerusalem.

The Balkan nation’s Foreign Ministry said the move followed the establishment of diplomatic ties with Israel on February 1 a

VATICAN CITY: (Reuters) - Pope Francis in his Christmas message on Friday said political and business leaders must not allow market forces and patent laws to take priority over making Covid 19 vaccines available to all, condemning nationalism and “the virus of radical individualism”.<

Vatican City: (CNA) A Swiss Catholic diocese that elects its own bishop from a shortlist drawn up by the Holy See has rejected all three candidates proposed by Pope Francis, according to local media.

The Swiss daily newspaper Tages-Anzeiger reported that the cathedral chapter of the Dio

Subject: - For getting stopped immediately, the farce of US - elections 2020

A farce (which is against democracy) is going on in the USA about 2020 elections (for President, vice-President, Senate, House etc) where postal ballots are being allowed. Legally a postal ballot is no ballot b

Vatican City: (CNA) Pope Francis warned Europe’s leaders Tuesday that the project of European unity is at risk unless they “rediscover the path of fraternity” that inspired the project’s founders.

In a letter signed Oct. 22, the feast day of St. John Paul II, and

Vatican City: (CNA) Pope Francis appointed a New Jersey-based bishop as the administrator of a Canadian eparchy Tuesday.

The Holy See press office announced Oct. 20 that the pope had named Bishop Kurt Burnette as the apostolic administrator of the Slovak Catholic Eparchy of Ss. Cyril an

ROME: (AP) Pope Francis told European anti-money laundering experts Thursday that the Vatican was committed to “clean finance,” as he denounced financial speculation amid a spiraling corruption investigation in the heart of the Holy See.

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