Leaders of 52 groups seeking reform and renewal in the Catholic Church have written to Pope Francis asking for a meeting. They urge the Pope to take immediate action to appoint more women to Church leadership positions. The Pope’s frequent references to pastoral care for people and to the status of women are cited. But Read more
Sister Candida Bellotti turned 107 years old on Thursday, and she is believed to be the oldest living nun in the world. Naturally, she has a thing or two to say about longevity and living well. Born in 1907 in Verona, Italy, Candida joined the Camillian nuns more than 80 years ago and has spent Read more
Pope Francis has denounced liturgy that is detached from true spiritual worship as empty and almost magical. The Pope also called for a renewed commitment by the Church to the Second Vatican Council’s vision of the liturgy. He said this in a message to a symposium devoted to the 50th anniversary of Sacrosanctum Concilium – Read more
Pope Francis and Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI have appeared together at a major public service for the first time since the former Pope’s retirement. The former and present pontiffs were at a ceremony at St Peter’s Basilica to formally install 19 new cardinals on February 22. Benedict entered the basilica discreetly from a side entrance Read more
Catholics in Kansas City are formally asking Pope Francis to conduct a canonical review of Bishop Robert Finn saying the church’s lack of response to his misdemeanour conviction has caused further spiritual harm to the diocese. “Civil law has done what civil law can do. The church has done nothing in terms of calling Bishop Read more
Pope Francis has captured the imagination of the world in way that few people, let alone popes, ever achieve. There are people, usually actors and rock stars, that have the x-factor; something about them that attracts people. If I knew what it was I would be a wealthy man! But I am not a fan of Pope Read more
A third meeting of Pope Francis with his international Council of eight cardinals has ended without specific details being made public. Among the items under consideration were financial matters and the reform of the Vatican bureaucracy, and, according to La Stampa, Vatican Spokesman, Fr Federico Lombardi told journalists, the Pope’s advisors, yesterday, presented their initial Read more
Pope Francis, Wednesday, urged the faithful to look after those who are going through a tough time. The pontiff was speaking against a background of recent floods in rome and the consequences of the global economic crisis. “We all go to Mass, because we love Jesus and want to share in His Passion and His Read more
Pope Francis is shaking things up in the Catholic Church to such an extent that many talk about a “Francis revolution.” Yet the single most revolutionary act committed by any pope in at least the last 600 years fell one year ago, and it wasn’t Francis who did it. On Feb. 11, 2013, Pope Benedict Read more
“Please, thanks, and sorry”, is Pope Francis recipe for a lasting marriage. The Holy Father offered this advice on Friday, St Valentine’s Day, to 10,000 engaged couples from 30 different countries, who accepted his offer of ‘a special date’ and joined him in St Peter’s Square. Speaking to the fiancés, Francis said expressions of courtesy, Read more