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In sermon to Trump, Bishop Budde pleads for immigrants, transgender rights

President Donald Trump attended the inaugural prayer ser-vice at the Washington National Cathedral Tuesday morning (Jan. 21), finishing off the festivities marking the beginning of his second term with an interfaith service filled with prayers and hymns – and a sermon that offered a religious challenge to his administration’s stated goals. About halfway through the […]

Pope sees ‘providential’ moment as Catholics, Orthodox hope to celebrate Easter 2025 together

Pope Francis posed Jesus’ profound question “Do you believe this?” to Christians worldwide during an ecumenical vespers service on Jan. 25th evening as momentum builds for Catholics and Orthodox to consider celebrating Easter on the same date in this historic anniversary year. Speaking at the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls at the conclusion […]

Pope Francis welcomes jubilee pilgrims: ‘Begin again with hope’

Pope Francis kicked off the first Saturday jubilee audience of 2025 by urging pilgrims to embrace hope as a divine strength that enables new beginnings, drawing inspiration from St. John the Baptist. Speaking to pilgrims gathered in the Vatican’s audience hall on Jan. 11, the pontiff emphasized that hope is not merely a character trait […]

Pope Francis appoints first-ever woman to head Vatican dicastery

Pope Francis has named for the first time a woman, Sister Simona Brambilla, to head a dicastery of the Roman Curia, continuing to add to the number of women in leadership roles at the Vatican, a hallmark of his pontificate. The 59-year-old Brambilla, a member and former superior general of the Consolata Missio-nary Sisters, has been secretary […]

Nicaraguan dictatorship shuts down more organizations, including Dominican nuns

The new year has seen the Nicaraguan dictatorship cancel the legal personhood of 15 non-profit organizations, adding to the more than 5,400 nongovernmental organizations shut down since 2018 by the regime of President Daniel Ortega and his wife and “co-president,” Rosario Murillo. The official government newspaper La Gaceta announced on Jan. 8 the “voluntary dissolution” of 11 […]

Angola archbishop: ‘I was on a list of people to be eliminated’

Archbishop José Manuel Imba-mba of the Archdiocese of Saurimo in Angola has revealed that he was once on a list of people targeted for assassination for defending truth and justice.In an interview with Radio Ecclesia on Jan. 7, the day he turned 60, Imbamba recalled the dangers he faced in 2003 following Angola’s post-election conflict. […]

Historic Italian naval ship chosen to be a jubilee church in 2025

Pope Francis kicked off the first Saturday jubilee audience of 2025 by urging pilgrims to embrace hope as a divine strength that enables new beginnings, drawing inspiration from St. John the Baptist. Speaking to pilgrims gathered in the Vatican’s audience hall on Jan. 11, the pontiff emphasized that hope is not merely a character trait […]

Pope Francis taps Cardinal McElroy as Washington’s new archbishop

Pope Francis has tapped Cardinal Robert McElroy as the new archbishop of Washington, D.C., appointing one of his top U.S. allies, one of the American church’s most forceful defenders of migrants and a sharp critic of Donald Trump’s first administration just days before Trump takes office a second time. McElroy of San Diego will succeed […]