Pope offers prayers for prisoners of war and victims of torture
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis appealed to countries at war to release prisoners and offered special prayers for those who have endured torture. At...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis appealed to countries at war to release prisoners and offered special prayers for those who have endured torture. At...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis and his international Council of Cardinals continued their discussions about the role of women in the church, listening...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Vatican Secretariat of State sent a formal statement to the French Embassy to the Holy See reaffirming that Pope Francis had...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The morning after Iran launched hundreds of drones and missiles at Israel, Pope Francis pleaded with nations to avoid a further escalation...
Read More(OSV News) -- A landmark report published April 10 in the United Kingdom said children had been "let down" by a lack of research on the use of puberty...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Today's "growing culture of indifference and individualism" must be countered with prayer and adoration, which inspires solidarity...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The wounds of Christ's passion and death and the stigmata given to some Christians over the centuries are reminders of "the pain...
Read MoreMEXICO CITY (OSV News) -- In an endless cycle of violence, the bishop of Orizaba, traveling with a group of priests, suffered an assault on a highway in...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- While intense feelings or drive -- passions -- are natural, Christians know they must be tamed and channeled toward what is good,...
Read MorePARIS (OSV News) -- For some, the Notre Dame fire was a sign of devastation of faith and Christian values. But for many more in France, it meant awakening...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The protection and preservation of human dignity must extend into the digital realm, the Vatican said in a new document on human...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Being a Christian means defending human dignity and that includes opposing abortion, the death penalty, gender transition surgery,...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis has made major changes to the Diocese of Rome, giving new positions to both Cardinal Angelo De Donatis, his vicar for...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- For the nearly 10 years that Pope Francis and retired Pope Benedict XVI lived on opposite sides of St. Peter's Basilica, the two...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis held up a well-thumbed, camouflage-covered pocket edition of the New Testament and Psalms and a small fabric pouch containing...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- A group of cardinals asked Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio in-depth questions about liberation theology and its political consequences...
Read MoreROME (OSV News) -- Pope Francis renewed his calls for an immediate cease-fire in the Gaza Strip after seven of the aid workers of World Central Kitchen,...
Read MoreEDINBURGH, Scotland (OSV News) -- Church leaders have expressed concern that some passages in the Bible or the Catechism of the Catholic Church could be...
Read MoreCUERNAVACA, Mexico (OSV News) -- Catholics turned out in large numbers to celebrate Holy Week in Nicaragua. But the ruling Sandinista regime prohibited...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Vatican press office announced that the Dicastery for the Doctrine of Faith's declaration on human dignity, said to include a...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Like the women disciples who discovered Jesus had risen from the dead and ran to tell the others, Christians should be filled with...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Just as Jesus removed the stone that sealed his tomb on the morning of the Resurrection, on Easter Christ alone "has the power to...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis voted for Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict XVI, in the 2005 conclave that followed the death of St....
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Easter is a promise that no matter how dark the world may seem and no matter how heavy the burdens one carries, victory belongs to...
Read MoreJERUSALEM (OSV News) -- With a heavy police presence but few pilgrims, Jerusalem's normally crowded Franciscan Good Friday Via Crucis and later funeral...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- God's power is the power of his humble, defenseless love, the papal preacher told Pope Francis and thousands of people gathered for...
Read MoreROME (CNS) -- As Pope Francis poured water over their feet, dried them with a towel and kissed their feet, 12 women inmates at Rome's Rebibbia prison wept. The...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- As a statue of Jesus bearing his cross is carried through the streets of Sonsonate, El Salvador, on Good Friday, Pope Francis asked...
Read MorePARIS (OSV News) -- In December 2023, Christophe Grunenwald, a knight of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem since 2000, was given...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Just before some 1,500 priests, bishops and cardinals renewed their priestly promises, Pope Francis asked them to embrace "compunction,"...
Read More(OSV News) -- After more than a century, construction of Spain's Basilica of the Holy Family in Barcelona, known as Sagrada Familia for its Spanish name,...
Read More(OSV News) -- In its first detailed analysis of the Vatican's pre-Christmas declaration "Fiducia Supplicans," Russia's Orthodox Church has accused Pope...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis told Catholics in the Holy Land that he knows Holy Week this year is "so overshadowed by the Passion and, as yet, so...
Read More(OSV News) -- A decision by a judge in Calgary, Alberta, in favor of a young woman seeking medically assisted suicide over her father's objections amounts...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- For the first time in his 11-year papacy, Pope Francis has chosen to write his own meditations for the Good Friday Way of the Cross...
Read MoreJERUSALEM (OSV News) -- When Christians gathered in Jerusalem to remember Jesus' entry into the city, it was one of a few joyful moments in the Holy Land,...
Read MoreDUBLIN (OSV News) -- The professional body that regulates and ensures professional standards for doctors in Ireland has rejected a report from a parliamentary...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Media outlets have a responsibility to share the truth, not spread ideologies, Pope Francis said. The pope told employees of the...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Only Jesus can deliver humanity from hatred and violence, Pope Francis said on Palm Sunday. "Jesus entered Jerusalem as a humble...
Read More(OSV News) -- A Catholic-inspired human rights group devoted to ending human trafficking took its case to the United Nations March 14, demanding comprehensive...
Read MorePARIS (OSV News) -- France's bishops issued a joint statement March 19 in response to a draft law on "aid in dying" that French President Emmanuel Macron...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis has not accepted an invitation to travel to Moscow in June to meet with Vladimir Putin, the director of the Holy See...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- "War is always a defeat," Pope Francis said, urging people at his general audience to pray that leaders in war-torn nations would...
Read MoreSÃO PAULO (OSV News) -- While church groups in different nations have been discussing what to do with Father Marko Rupnik's works after sex abuse...
Read More(OSV News) -- A few months ago, Rhina Guidos was talking with students at a Catholic university in Washington and asked them to imagine U.S. soldiers bursting...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Asked to reminisce about his life and where he was at key moments in history, the 87-year-old Pope Francis obliged, but also used...
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