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A man in a blue suit bows to Pope Francis, with a sister in her habit standing to his left
Faith News
September 22, 2022
“You can leave a mark,” Pope Francis told members of the global network; just make sure that “your mark is positive and moves toward integral human development.”
Comboni Sister Maria De Coppi, who had served in Mozambique since 1963, is pictured during an interview with La Tenda Tv Vittorio Veneto.
Politics & Society News
September 09, 2022
“I asked her, ‘Auntie, you’re not leaving?’ and, after a moment of silence, she answered ‘I don’t know, I want to wait,” Comboni Sister Gabriella Bottani said of her aunt, Comboni Sister Maria De Coppi.
family stands at the vatican holding a ukrainian flag as refugees from the country
Politics & Society News
August 24, 2022
“Today, in a special way, six months since the start of the war, let us think of Ukraine and Russia, two countries I consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.... We need peace.”
pope francis sits on a chair next to retired pope benedict. both are wearing white and smiling
Faith News
August 19, 2022
Canon lawyers are proposing new laws that will delineate the rules on papal retirement. Retired Pope Benedict XVI has had to trailblaze a path, as the last pope to step down was in 1294.
Pope Benedict XVI views the casket of St. Celestine V, a 13th-century pope who resigned, during his visit to the earthquake-damaged Basilica of Santa Maria di Collemaggio in L'Aquila, Italy, in this April 28, 2009, file photo. Pope Benedict retired in 2013. (CNS photo/L'Osservatore Romano via Reuters)
Faith News
August 12, 2022
The resignation of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has sparked internal debate over the status and titles of former Popes. One group of canon lawyers and academics are working to draft a ruleset for this navigating papal resignations going forward.
Pope Francis receives ashes from Slovak Cardinal Jozef Tomko during Ash Wednesday Mass at the Basilica of Santa Sabina in Rome March 5, 2014. Cardinal Tomko, the oldest member of the College of Cardinals, died in Rome Aug. 8, 2022, at the age of 98. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
Faith News
August 09, 2022
The oldest member of the College of Cardinals, Cardinal Jozef Tomko, died in Rome at the age of 98.
The pope, holding a microphone and smiling, receives questions from reporters on an airplane.
Faith News
August 04, 2022
The pope shares St. Vincent of Lérins’s view on how doctrine can develop and how there can be growth in the expression and awareness of the faith and in morals “while always remaining faithful to its roots.”
A smiling religious sister in habit sits to the left of Pope Francis before a crowd of sisters
Faith News
July 26, 2022
“The ideal bishop does not exist,” Sister Reungoat said. But he has to be a shepherd who is “close to the people entrusted to him, he has to know how to involve priests, laity and religious, and people of different generations.”
Gabriele Gionti, S.J., an astronomer, points to a 1935 Zeiss telescope during a tour for media representatives of the Vatican Observatory at the papal villa at Castel Gandolfo.
Faith News
May 27, 2022
“Being close to the created world is a way of being close to the creator, and that’s why sciences played such an important role in the apostolates of the Jesuits,” said the director of the Vatican Observatory.
Faith News
May 13, 2022
Speaking at a conference on family, sexuality and marriage, Pope Francis said wanting to go back to the way things were in the past is not Christian.