A diplomatic storm denied: Vatican and Washington push back against claims of Pentagon pressure on the Holy See

Church and World, Pope Francis

In An Address to European Lawyers, Pope Reveals He Is Writing A Second Part To Laudato Si’ (Full Text)

Art and Culture, Local Church

Aparecida, the Most Important Brazilian Shrine, Suspends Placement of Rupnik’s Mosaics

Testimonies

Pope Francis Telephones Mother of Youth Who Died after Attending Lisbon’s WYD

Angelus, Pope Francis

Jesus’ Change of Attitude and the Woman’s Faith: This Is How Pope Francis Explained the Gospel Passage of Jesus and the Canaanite Woman to 10,000 People

Local Church

Nigeria: Christian killings ‘go on and on’, no arrests or consequences for terrorists

Local Church

Ultimatum from the Pontifical Delegate: warns of canonical penalties for priests who litigate over liturgy in India

Local Church, Persecuted Christians

Pakistan: 21 churches razed to the ground, 1,000 Christians affected. Islamists attack images of Jesus and Mary

Local Church

New director of the prestigious Ecole Biblique de Jerusalem

Pope Francis, Vatican City

Pope Francis receives in audience the President of Madagascar

Local Church

Towards a Schism Over the Liturgy? Syro-Malabreses Throw Eggs at Pope’s Delegate

Young People

45,000 Young People, the Jesus of “The Chosen,” Pope Francis and Matt Maher in a Lisbon

Local Church, Rome

A few meters from the Vatican, archaeologists discover Nero’s Theater, where Christians were martyred