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Pope Francis invites Catholics to renew consecration to Immaculate Heart of Mary on March 25

Pope Francis prays at the Sanctuary of Our Woman of Fatima in Portugal on Might 12, 2017. / Vatican Media. Vatican City, Mar 22, 2023 / 06:40 am (CNA). Pope Francis has invited Catholics to annually renew an act of consecration to the Immacul...

Pope Francis: Christian witness requires consistency between how one lives and what one proclaims

Pope Francis greets pilgrims at the Wednesday basic viewers in St. Peter's Square on March 22, 2023. / Daniel Ibanez/CNA Vatican Metropolis, Mar 22, 2023 / 05:20 am (CNA). To effectively witness to the Gospel, Christians must be consiste...

Gänswein to Costa Rica? Report of Benedict’s secretary becoming nuncio is ‘speculation,’ Vatican sources say

null / Daniel Ibáñez/CNA. CNA Newsroom, Mar 22, 2023 / 08:36 am (CNA). Following a report that Pope Francis will appoint Archbishop Georg Gänswein because the Vatican’s next ambassador to Costa Rica, sources inside the Vatican have advised CN...

Pope Francis puts a priest, three religious women, and two laywomen on path for sainthood

Father Carlo Crespi Croci (1891-1982) holding a crucifix from his ethnographic collection in Cuenca, Ecuador. / Credit: Salesianos de Don Bosco, CC BY-SA 4.zero, by way of Wikimedia Commons Washington D.C., Mar 23, 2023 / 15:11 pm (CNA). Pope...

On this day in 1944 the Ulma family was martyred by the Nazis

Members of the Ulma household at their house and farm. On March 24, 1944, all 9 members of the Ulma household have been killed by the Nazis for hiding a Jewish family of their residence in Poland, including a toddler still in the womb. / Credi...

‘Rise again’: Jesus gives life when hope seems lost, Pope Francis says

Pope Francis delivers his Angelus reflection from the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City on March 26, 2023. / Vatican Media CNA Newsroom, Mar 26, 2023 / 08:01 am (CNA). On the fifth Sunday of Lent, Pope Francis challenged the trustworthy to do...

Pope Francis extends ‘Vos estis’ decree to counter both lay and clerical abuse

Pope Francis speaks on the common viewers in Vatican Metropolis's Paul VI Corridor on Feb. 22, 2023. / Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, Mar 25, 2023 / 08:20 am (CNA). Pope Francis completely decreed Saturday an updated model of Vos estis lux...

Pope Francis: An ethical AI respects human dignity

Pope Francis meets with individuals of the Minerva Dialogues — a meeting of scientists, engineers, business leaders, legal professionals, philosophers, Catholic theologians, ethicists, and members of the Roman Curia to discuss digital technolo...

‘For love of the pope’: Latin Mass supporters post billboards near Vatican

A gaggle of Conventional Latin Mass supporters in Italy posted indicators as a part of a billboard marketing campaign in a neighborhood close to the Vatican on March 28, 2023. / Credit score: Daniel Ibañez/CNA Rome Newsroom, Mar 28, 2023 / 12...

Pope Francis to bless satellite set to launch his words into space

Pope Francis provides a unprecedented Urbi et Orbi blessing from the loggia of St. Peter's Basilica March 27, 2020. / Vatican Media. Rome Newsroom, Mar 27, 2023 / 10:30 am (CNA). Pope Francis on Wednesday will bless a satellite tv for pc...

Pope Francis mourns ‘senseless act of violence’ at Nashville Christian school

null / Daniel Ibáñez/CNA. Vatican Metropolis, Mar 29, 2023 / 05:27 am (CNA). Pope Francis has expressed his sorrow over a capturing at a personal Presbyterian Christian faculty in Nashville.A person took the lives of three 9-year-old students...

Cardinal Hollerich: There’s ‘space to expand’ Church teaching on all&male priesthood

Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, SJ, talking at a press convention in the Vatican on Aug. 26, 2022. / Vatican Information YouTube Channel Rome Newsroom, Mar 28, 2023 / 13:00 pm (CNA). Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, SJ, the archbishop of Luxem...

Pope Francis: ‘The true Christian is one who receives Jesus within’

Pope Francis' Common Audience in St. Peter's Square on March 29, 2023. / Daniel Ibanez/CNA Vatican Metropolis, Mar 29, 2023 / 06:00 am (CNA). Pope Francis on Wednesday spoke towards a cushty Christianity that retains Jesus at arm’s...

Abuse expert leaves Vatican commission for protection of minors, citing concerns

Father Hans Zollner. / Rebecski CC four.0 Rome Newsroom, Mar 29, 2023 / 09:30 am (CNA). Jesuit Father Hans Zollner, an internationally-renowned professional in protecting youngsters and weak adults from clerical intercourse abuse, has resigne...

Vatican: Pope Francis at Rome hospital to undergo checkups

Pope Francis, seated in a wheelchair, greets a toddler in the course of the pope's basic audience on the Vatican on Jan. 25, 2023. / Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, Mar 29, 2023 / 08:57 am (CNA). Pope Francis has been present process some m...