Jubilee countdown: Preparations for 2025 Holy Year move into high gear
By Cindy Wooden, CNS – For more than 700 years, the Catholic Church has celebrated “jubilee” or “holy” years as...
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Vatican to publish updated norms for investigating alleged apparitions
By Cindy Wooden, CNS – The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith will publish its new norms for the...
Mightier than the sword: Words are a Swiss Guard’s best weapon
By Carol Glatz, CNS – One of the oldest military corps in the world, the Pontifical Swiss Guard, has always...
New Polish Nuncio for Southern Africa!
Pope Francis has appointed a new apostolic nuncio to Southern Africa. Polish Archbishop Henryk Mieczysław Jagodziński, until now nuncio to...
‘Patriarch of the West’ reappears as papal title in Vatican yearbook
By Cindy Wooden, CNS – The 2024 edition of the Vatican yearbook has inserted “Patriarch of the West” as one...
Vatican: Abortion, Surrogacy, War, Poverty are Attacks on Human Dignity
By Cindy Wooden , CNS – Being a Christian means defending human dignity and that includes opposing abortion, the death...
Old truth, new insight: Cardinal says human dignity text is result of growth
By Cindy Wooden, CNS – The 116 footnotes in the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith’s declaration on human...
Respect life by opposing war, Vatican says in Ramadan message
By Cindy Wooden, CNS – The respect religions have for the dignity and value of human life should help them...
Pope sets up groups to study most controversial issues raised at synod
By Cindy Wooden, CNS – Pope Francis has decided that some of the most controversial issues raised at the first...
