Pope Francis’ Council of Cardinals met online on December 1 to continue work on the new apostolic constitution to govern the Roman Curia, according to a Vatican statement. The seven cardinals and an archbishop secretary are studying “observations, amendments, and...
The 31-year-old Palestinian, who dismembered the statue of the Virgin late on December 1 in the Piazzale Giovannacci, is being held in the Gradisca D’Isonzo repatriation centre in Gorizia, northeastern Italy, waiting for deportation procedures to be completed. The...
Pope Francis led Mass November 29 Sunday. In his homily he noted that it “is the season for remembering” God’s closeness, a time to “be watchful” so that we can escape the “slumber of mediocrity” and the “slumber of indifference.” The Holy Father concelebrat-ed the...
The Vatican is stepping up its alliance with a pan-Islamic organization alleged to have provided “material support” to al-Qaeda’s 9/11 terrorist operation as well as to have funded terrorism and the global propagation of hardline Wahhabi Islam. As part of recent...
Bishops in Switzerland lamented a record exodus of Catholics from the Church in 2019. The new figures, released on Nov. 19, revealed that the Catholic Church lost 31,772 members in 2019 – equivalent to 1.1% of the total membership of the Catholic Church in...
