ON 21 September last year Antonio De marco a future nurse killed Daniele and Eleonora in Lecce, without them having done it ...
CANBERRA, Australia - Australian police said Wednesday they found no evidence of criminal misconduct in money transfers from the Vatican that ...
Last weekend two young parents lost their lives during an excursion on Mount Vareno in Val Camonica, apparently the little girl named ...
by Mina del Nunzio The Madonnina of Civitavecchia is a 42 cm tall plaster statuette. It was bought in a shop in Medjugorje on the 16th ...
The news has been leaping for a day on the web in the main national and non-national newspapers. It is a German convent where a group of ...
On the feast of the Presentation of the Lord, Pope Francis indicated Simeon and Anna as models of a "patience of heart" that can keep alive ...
This holiday was originally called the Purification of the Virgin Mary, reflecting the custom that, as a Jewish woman, Jesus' mother would follow. In the Jewish tradition, the ...
Pope Francis said on Saturday that catechists have a vital responsibility to lead others to a personal encounter with Jesus through prayer, ...
Although the Vatican has not yet released a travel program, Cardinal Raphael Sako, patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church, revealed on Thursday a great…
After recovering from COVID-19 itself, the pope's point man for charity is encouraging people not to forget the poor and the homeless ...
Two Italian contemporaries, a young priest who resisted the Nazis and was shot dead, and a seminarian who died at 15 ...
Pope Francis met the players of the soccer team of northern Italy Spezia on Wednesday after eliminating the fourth-seeded AS Roma…
Pope Francis sent a video message on Tuesday encouraging priests and bishops in their ministry during the coronavirus pandemic and reminding them of two principles that, ...
Forty-three Italian priests died in November after contracting the coronavirus, while Italy is experiencing a second wave of epidemic. According to L'Avvenire, the newspaper of ...
The body of a Catholic priest was discovered on Saturday in Nigeria, the day after he was kidnapped by gunmen. Agenzia Fides, the service ...
Pope Francis said Sunday that great joy is found when one offers one's life at the service of God's call. "There are ...
Pope Francis sent a telegram on Friday with his condolences for Indonesia, after a strong earthquake killed at least 67 people on the island of ...
“It is incredible that, after so long,” says Father Raphael Nguyen, “God has chosen me as a priest to serve him and others, especially the ...
The views of women across the Catholic world have been divided in the wake of Pope Francis' new law that allows them to have ...
Silence, like words, can be a language of love, Pope Francis wrote in a very short introduction to a new book in Italian. "The…
Both Pope Francis and retired Pope Benedict XVI received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine after the Vatican began to ...
Speaking during a January 14 webinar on financial transparency in the Catholic Church, Cardinal Pell praised them as “highly competent women with…
Pope Francis urged Catholics on Wednesday to praise God not only in happy times, "but especially in difficult times". In the speech at the general audience ...
Compostela's jubilee year in Spain has been extended until 2021 and 2022, due to COVID-19 restrictions. The tradition of the Holy Year in ...
A letter from Cardinal Pietro Parolin leaked to an Italian news agency shows that the Secretariat of State was aware of, and approved of, its ...
On Tuesday, the Vatican provided guidance on how priests can distribute ashes on Ash Wednesday amid the coronavirus pandemic. There…
In an attempt to provide immediate shelter and help to people living on the street in Rome, while also trying to curb the spread of the coronavirus, the ...
Pope Francis issued a motu proprio on Monday amending canon law to allow women to serve as readers and acolytes. In the motu ...
In the face of political discord and personal interest, we have the obligation to promote unity, peace and the common good in society and in the Catholic Church ...
For the first time in over 54 years, the Franciscan friars of the Custody of the Holy Land were able to celebrate Mass on their property at ...
The archbishop of Florence said that this year no new students have entered his diocesan seminary, defining the low number of priestly vocations a "wound" ...
Pope Francis' personal doctor Fabrizio Soccorsi has died of health complications related to the coronavirus, according to the Vatican. The 78-year-old doctor, undergoing treatment ...
In the coming days, the Vatican is expected to begin distributing the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to citizens and employees, giving priority to medical personnel, to those ...
Pope Francis said he was surprised at the news of the incursion of pro-Donald Trump protesters into the United States Capitol this week and encouraged the people…
A little over a year after this release, Domenico Giani, previously considered one of the most powerful people in the Vatican, gave an interview offering details ...
The Venezuelan Bishops' Conference (CEV) announced Friday morning that the 69-year-old bishop of Trujillo, Cástor Oswaldo Azuaje, has died from COVID-19. Several priests…
Pope Francis on Friday appointed the first lay head of the disciplinary commission of the Roman Curia. The press office of the Holy See announced on January 8 ...
The draft of the delayed document that will reform the Roman Curia gives the Vatican Secretariat of State a more prominent place in the functioning of the central bureaucracy ...
The cause of the sanctity of a Catholic priest imprisoned by both the Nazis and the Communists has advanced with the conclusion of the initial diocesan phase of ...
Pilgrims who undertake the long journey of the Camino to Santiago de Compostela remind others of the spiritual journey that all Christians make through ...
Pope Francis called Wednesday for peace in the Central African Republic following controversial elections. In his speech at the Angelus on January 6, the solemnity of the Epiphany ...
While celebrating Mass on the solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord on Wednesday, Pope Francis urged Catholics to devote more time to the worship of God. Preaching in the…
Three years after welcoming 2-year-old Inimffon Uwamobong and her younger brother, sister Matylda Iyang, she finally heard her mother who ...
Archbishop Alberto Taveira Corrêa of Belém, an archdiocese with over 2 million residents in the Amazon region of Brazil, faces criminal and ecclesial investigations after ...
The doctrinal office of the Vatican urged Catholics not to promote "the alleged apparitions and revelations" associated with the Marian title of "Lady of all ...
Pope Francis will not baptize children in the Sistine Chapel this Sunday due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Holy See press office announced ...
Australian Catholic bishops are considering raising questions with the country's financial supervisory authority about whether any Catholic organization was…
Several hours before the start of 2021, a 9-year-old Argentine boy was saved from a stray bullet from a small metal crucifix…
Pope Francis warned Sunday against the temptation to ignore the suffering of others during the coronavirus pandemic and said that ...
The Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport has announced that Bishop Frank Caggiano is in solitary confinement after testing positive for COVID-19 last Wednesday. Monsignor Caggiano ...