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The Vatican responds to overturning of Roe v Wade, Sant'Egidio continues peacebuilding in South Sudan

Pope Francis was set to visit the Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Sudan this week, July 2-9, before his doctors advised against making the…

4 years, 3 months ago

How Catholic marriage prep could be changing

The World Meeting of Families is happening in Rome this week, and there has been much family-related news out of the Vatican recently. The Vatican ha…

4 years, 3 months ago

Pope Francis: Don’t reduce the Ukraine war to ‘good guys and bad guys’

Pope Francis gave a wide-ranging interview to the editors of the European Jesuit journals—America’s across-the-pond counterparts—that was published t…

4 years, 3 months ago

Does Pope Francis have plans to resign soon?

Pope Francis’ increasing mobility woes were already leading some to speculate that another papal resignation might soon be on the horizon. 

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4 years, 3 months ago

Pope Francis appoints new cardinals ‘from the ends of the earth’

On Sunday, May 29, Pope Francis announced he would create 21 new cardinals this year, including American Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego and sever…

4 years, 3 months ago

Archbishop Cordileone bans Nancy Pelosi from communion. Will Pope Francis intervene?

Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco announced Friday, May 20, that he would bar Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the U.S. House of Represent…

4 years, 4 months ago

What Cardinal Zen’s arrest means for the church in China

On May 11, Cardinal Joseph Zen, the 90-year old pro-democracy prelate of Hong Kong, along with three other advocates for democracy in China, were arr…

4 years, 4 months ago

Fr. James Martin on his interview with Pope Francis

Pope Francis gave a brief and unexpected interview to James Martin, S.J., for Father Martin’s new L.G.B.T.-focused publication, Outreach, a subsidiar…

4 years, 4 months ago

Putin’s “holy war” threatens Christian unity

Despite his hopes to declare victory over Ukraine May 9, Russian president Vladimir Putin instead used his speech that day to rehash his complaint th…

4 years, 4 months ago

Why the pope wants to visit Russia before Ukraine

In a new interview with the Italian daily newspaper Corriere della Sera, Pope Francis revealed some of the details of his communications with Russian…

4 years, 4 months ago