Pope Francis

Pope Francis Highlights Europe’s Challenge: Unity in Diversity

Address to the participants in the Plenary Assembly of the Commission of the Bishops of the European Union (COMECE).

Mar 23, 2023 10:30

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Local Church

Italian Bishop Crociata is the new President of COMECE

His Excellency Mgr. Mariano Crociata (Italy) is the new President of COMECE.

Mar 23, 2023 10:26

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Pope Francis

Pope Addresses Confessors and Future Confessors: Never Be a Psychiatrist or Psychoanalyst in the Confessional

Address to the participants in the Course on the Internal Forum organized by the Apostolic Penitentiary.

Mar 23, 2023 04:21

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General Audience

Pope Francis Highlights Witness as First Means of Evangelization 

Audiencia general del Papa sobre el testimonio como primera forma de evangelización.

Mar 22, 2023 13:57

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Local Church

The Holy Oil With Which King Charles III of the United Kingdom Will Be Consecrated Comes from Jesus’ Tomb in the Holy Land

During the solemn coronation ceremony, King Carlos III will receive the anointing with chrism oil.

Mar 22, 2023 13:53

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Pope Francis

Pope Francis’ Pro-Life Gesture: He Blesses Bell in the Vatican for the Unborn 

In the context of the Sanctity of Life Day, this act was carried out that represents the sound of the voice of the Unborn.

Mar 22, 2023 13:48

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Local Church•Persecuted Christians

Jews Attack the Church of Mary’s Tomb in Jerusalem

The attackers tried to hit the bishop who was celebrating the service and injured a priest. The fears of the Christian community before Holy Week and Easter.

Mar 21, 2023 13:26

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Vatican City

Vatican telescope searches for new worlds: here’s what it has found

At the moment, what the stars are made of is being investigated since it is suspected that these bodies host their own exoplanets.

Mar 21, 2023 10:08

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Local Church•Popes•Rome•Testimonies

Five People Can Inherit From Benedict XVI

Monsignor Gänswein stressed that it’s “not about copyright stuff.” He explained that “everything that has to do with books, everything that has to do with his intellectual work has already been clarified.”

Mar 21, 2023 09:50

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Local Church

U.S. Bishops’ Doctrine Committee Issues Guidance to Catholic Health Care Institutions on Respecting the Fundamental Order of the Human Body

These interventions involve the use of surgical or chemical techniques that aim to exchange the sex characteristics of a patient’s body for those of the opposite sex or for simulations thereof.

Mar 20, 2023 15:29

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Justice and Peace•Persecuted Christians

Green light for trial of student banned from U.S. university for expressing religious views

Two weeks after receiving a letter from ADF attorneys informing the university that stifling DeJong’s speech based on her viewpoint is unconstitutional, officials finally disclosed to DeJong the materials underlying the no-contact orders and related investigation.

Mar 20, 2023 15:26

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Local Church

French Bishop Promotes Change in the Church’s Doctrine on Homosexuality

As reported by the National Catholic Register, the discreet doctrinal rewriting movement was already raised with the Pope during the ad limina visit of the French episcopate, in September 2021.

Mar 20, 2023 14:33

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