Stefanie Tiefenbacher, 87, of the Missionary Sisters of the Precious Blood, was robbed and murdered in her bedroom in the small town of Ixopo, near Durban, South Africa. • An appearance by Sister Jeannine Gramick, censured for positions on homosexuality and same-sex marriage, at a Catholic church in Charlotte, N.C., has been canceled • After an Italian prosecutor revealed on April 24 that the Vatican had been an intended target of terrorists in 2010, Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin said that the “pope is calm,” and that security officials felt “proper” fear but “not an exaggerated preoccupation with the issue.” • It was announced on April 21 that Pope Francis had accepted the resignation of Bishop Robert Finn of the diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph, Mo., the first Catholic prelate to be convicted for not reporting a priest who posed a danger to children. • “Rescue is the first priority,” said the Rev. Pius Perumana, director of Caritas Nepal, as humanitarian agencies responded to an earthquake, 7.8 on the Richter scale, that struck Kathmandu, Nepal’s capital city, on April 25.
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In this episode of Inside the Vatican, Colleen Dulle and Gerard O’Connell discuss the 2025 Jubilee Year, beginning on Christmas Eve 2024 and ending in January 2026.
Pope Francis prayed that the Jubilee Year may become “a season of hope” and reconciliation in a world at war and suffering humanitarian crises as he opened the Holy Door in St. Peter’s Basilica on Christmas Eve.
‘If God can visit us, even when our hearts seem like a lowly manger, we can truly say: Hope is not dead; hope is alive and it embraces our lives forever!’
Inspired by his friend and mentor Henri Nouwen, Metropolitan Borys Gudziak, leader of Ukrainian Catholics in the U.S., invites listeners in his Christmas Eve homily to approach the manger with renewed awe and openness.