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German Catholic Priests Defy Rome to Offer Blessings to Gay Couples‍

More than 100 Roman Catholic parishes in Germany offered blessings to gay couples on May 10 in defiance of church teaching and their own bishops. The call for nationwide blessings came in response to a decree issued by the Vatican on March 15, reinforcing the church’s prohibition of priests ask

New Vatican anti-corruption law prohibits employees from using tax havens

Pope Francis has signed a new anti-corruption law for the Vatican, which prohibits employees from using tax havens investing in companies that go against Church teaching. “Faithfulness in things of little account is related, according to Scripture, to faithfulness in the important ones,” begins the motu proprio on anti-corruption for members of Vatican management signed by Francis […]

Vatican adds seven invocations to Litany of St. Joseph

The Vatican’s divine worship office announced May 1 the addition of seven new invocations to the Litany of St Joseph. The seven invocations, in Latin, are Custos Redemptoris, Serve Christi, Minister salutis, Fulcimen in difficultatibus, Patrone exsulum, Patrone affli-ctorum, and Patrone pauperum. The Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments wrote a […]

Pope to institute formal ‘ministry of catechist’

While millions of laypeople around the world are recognized as catechists in their parish or diocese, Pope Francis is preparing to formally institute the “ministry of catechist.” Pope Francis often has spoken of the importance of selecting, training and supporting catechists, who are called to lead people to a deeper relationship with Jesus, prepare them […]

Pope warns against arrogant pride and despising spontaneous prayer

Prayer is “dialogue with God” and spontaneous spoken prayer is an “anchor” to cling to, remembering that when the apostles who saw Jesus in silent prayer asked him how they should pray, he taught them to recite the Our Father, in which “there is everything”. Therefore “do not fall into arrogant pride and do not […]

Pope allows Cardinals, Bishops to be tried by Vatican tribunals

Cardinals and Bishops accused of criminal offences by Vatican magistrates, can now be tried by the Tribunal of the Vatican City State instead of the Court of Cassation presided over by a cardinal, as had been the case until now. Pope Francis made the change in an Apostolic Letter issued motu proprio, which amends the judicial […]