The Vatican’s Secretary of State told employees and colla-borators of EWTN this week that the truth must be “fearlessly upheld” with a merciful and list-ening style. Speaking at a dinner in Fra-scati, Italy, Oct. 19, Cardinal Pietro Parolin recalled the words of...
French President Emmanuel Macron said October 23 it’s up to Ukraine to decide the time and terms of peace with Russia, and he cautioned that the end of war “can’t be the consecration of the law of the strongest.” Speaking at the opening of a three-day peace conference...
The Monastery of Mor Efrem (St Ephrem) in Mardin, southern Turkey, an area which was once the heartland of Syriac Christia-nity, has once again opened its doors to believers. Patriarch Ignace Joseph III Younan, head of the Syriac Ca-tholic Church, presided over the...
On October 27 the Vatican released the working document for the next stage in Pope Francis’s ongoing Synod of Bishops on Synodality, which offered a global view of what faithful at all levels of the Church believe needs to happen for it to be a true place of...
Oct. 23 marks the 80th anniversary of diplomatic re-lations between the Holy See and the Republic of China, which exists today in Taiwan. As surprising as it may seem to many, in Via della Conciliazione 4 in Rome there is the embassy of the Republic of China. Its red...
