December 3, 2023
The Vatican filed a letter to German bishops prohibiting the prelates’ attempts to change doctrine that condemns homosexual relationships and female clergy. Vatican officials admonished the “German Synodal Way” — the national-level meeting of Catholic leaders that was convened as part of Pope Francis’s global Synod on Synodality — and warned that radical propositions such
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The Vatican press room was the scene of a sharp back-and-forth between the families of Israeli hostages and the press after a meeting with Pope Francis. The loved ones of hostages being held captive by Hamas in the Gaza Strip met Wednesday with Pope Francis at the Vatican following the pontiff’s general audience. “Here we’ve
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An 8-month-old infant in the United Kingdom has been given more time to live after an appeal suspended a judge’s mandate that she be removed from life support. Justice Robert Peel ruled Wednesday that Indi Gregory was to be removed from her life-supporting ventilator on Thursday against the parents’ wishes. Now, the Gregory family has
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Israel’s foreign minister, Eli Cohen spewed staunch words toward the Vatican for not issuing a “clear and unequivocal” condemnation of the “murderous terrorist actions” of Hamas terrorists who poured into Israel last week and killed more than 1,300 Israelis in a surprise attack, according to reports. The Times of Israel reported that Cohen told the
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The Vatican is prepared to serve as mediator for peace between Israel and Gaza. Secretary of State Pietro Parolin told Vatican News that negotiations for the safe return of hostages and an end to the violence were the church’s primary concern. “The release of Israeli hostages and the protection of innocent lives in Gaza are
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Taboo subjects such as the ordination of women and the role of LGBTQ congregants will be discussed ADVERTISEMENT Pope Francis opened a big meeting on the future of the Catholic Church Wednesday by saying it was in need of repair to make it a place of welcome for “everyone, everyone, everyone,” not a rigid barricade
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VATICAN CITY (AP) — A few years ago, Pope Francis told the head of the main Vatican-backed Catholic women’s organization to be “brave” in pushing for change for women in the Catholic Church. Maria Lia Zervino took his advice and in 2021 wrote Francis a letter, then made it public, saying flat out that the
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Throughout his decade as leader of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis has allowed debates on previously taboo topics and set in motion subtle shifts toward liberalizing changes that have enraged conservatives for going too far and frustrated progressives for not going far enough. This month, starting on Wednesday, Francis’ desire for the church to
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A letter found among the private papers of Pope Pius XII suggests that the Holy See was told in 1942 that up to 6,000 people, “above all Poles and Jews,” were being killed in furnaces every day at Belzec, a Nazi death camp in Poland. Though news of the atrocities being perpetrated by Hitler was
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Representatives for the Vatican held an unprecedented beatification of the Polish family of 9 who were killed for hiding Jews in 1944. In an unprecedented move, the Vatican has beatified a Polish family of nine – a married couple and their small children – who were executed by the Nazis during World War II for
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