Our President, Archbishop Vincent Nichols, greets Pope Francis, as our Patron, Cardinal Cormac Murphy O’Connor looks on With great joy, we congratulate our President, the Most Revd Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster, on…
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On Saturday 11 January, it was announced in Rome that the Holy Father added his consent to the recent episcopal appointments made by the Synod of the Chaldean Catholic Church led by…
ROME, January 8, 2014 – Exactly half a century since the embrace in Jerusalem between Paul VI and the patriarch of Constantinople, Athenagoras, Pope Francis has announced that he too will go…
The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople has convoked the leaders of all Orthodox Churches to prepare for the 2015 Synod Gianni Valente on Vatican Insider (La Stampa in Rome) assesses the significance The Ecumenical…
Vatican City ( AsiaNews ) – Pope Francis will be in the Holy Land May 24 to 26 , to commemorate the “historic meeting” between Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras .…
Across the world this week, hundreds of millions of us will be singing of that “silent night, holy night” in the town of Bethlehem. But as Christmas approaches, with its beguiling promise…
The Christmas Papal Address to the Roman Curia seems to be an occasion when a Pope sets out the something of his defining approach for his pontificate. At one such address, Pope…
Keith Fournier of Catholic Online examines the recent interview of Pope Francis by Andrea Tornielli of Vatican Insider, published in the Italian newspaper, La Stampa, after the publication of Evangelii Gaudium, the Apostolic Exhortation.…
The Embassy of Turkey to the Holy See releases a statement on the meeting between Pope Francis and the secretary general of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, focusing on the need…
With grateful acknowledgement: John Allen Jr, in the National Catholic Reporter, writes: In a Dec. 14 interview with the Italian newspaper La Stampa, Pope Francis suggested that the common experience of anti-Christian…