Hannah Brockhaus/CNA, Author at Catholic Herald

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Pope’s exhortation on Amazon synod to come out next week

February 07, 2020

Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation on the Amazon region will be published on Wednesday, the Vatican has announced

Parolin: On McCarrick report release, Pope Francis has ‘final word’

February 06, 2020

“I think that [the report] will come out soon, I cannot tell you exactly when,” Parolin said

Vatican has ‘no information’ on Gänswein leave of absence report

February 05, 2020

After a German Catholic weekly reported that Archbishop Georg Gänswein was asked to take a leave of absence from his position as head of the papal household, the Vatican has said it cannot confirm the report, and the archbishop is still in his job. Die Tagespost reported on February 5 that the German archbishop had

Pope Francis met woman who grabbed him New Year’s Eve

February 05, 2020

Last month, Pope Francis met and shook hands with the woman at whom he lost his patience after being grabbed in St Peter’s Square on New Year's Eve

Pope Francis condemns clerics who engage in simony

January 22, 2020

In a homily on Tuesday, Pope Francis condemned priests and bishops who use money to advance their careers. To be a priest or bishop, like being a Christian, is a free and undeserved gift of God, not something to be bought, he said January 21 during Mass in the chapel of the Vatican’s Santa Marta

Pope tells Davos: Put good of the human person above power and profit

January 21, 2020

In a message to the global delegates of the 2020 World Economic Forum, Pope Francis stressed the duty of governments and businesses to place the good of the human person above power or profit. “The overriding consideration, never to be forgotten, is that we are all members of the one human family,” he said in

Founder of Protestant movement returns to Catholic Church

January 16, 2020

The founder of a prominent non-denominational movement in India has returned to the Catholic faith of his baptism, after more than a decade as a Pentecostal pastor and traveling preacher. Sajith Joseph, 36, was confirmed Dec. 21, 2019 at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Punalur in the southern Indian state of Kerala. His family and nearly

Archbishop Ganswein: Benedict XVI wrote text, but did not agree to be book’s co-author

January 14, 2020

Archbishop Georg Ganswein, the private secretary of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, has said the former pontiff was not informed he would be presented as co-author of a new book on priestly celibacy and that Benedict has asked for his name and photo to be removed from the cover. According to the German-language news agency KNA,

Vatican: Pope Francis not in favor of optional priestly celibacy

January 13, 2020

A Vatican spokesman has said that Pope Francis’ position on priestly celibacy is “known,” quoting the pontiff’s remarks in a January 2019 press conference, in which he said he does not agree with making priestly celibacy “optional” in the Latin rite. The statement by Holy See Press Office Director Matteo Bruni was issued in response

Tafida Raqeeb moved from intensive care unit in Italian hospital

January 09, 2020

A five-year-old British girl, whose parents won a legal battle to take her to Italy for medical treatment, has been moved out of intensive care, and into a rehabilitative unit for children with incurable illnesses. Her parents say they hope to have more good news about their daughter’s condition in the months to come. Tafida

St Stephen’s martyrdom shows ‘true meaning of Christmas,’ Pope Francis says

December 26, 2019

The death of St Stephen, the Church’s first martyr, teaches Catholics to renew their commitment to charity and self-gift, part of the meaning of Christmas, Pope Francis said on Thursday. In his address before the Angelus on the feast of St Stephen, the Pope noted that “in the joyful atmosphere of Christmas, this memory of

Pope Francis accepts resignation of dean of cardinals, sets 5-year term limit

December 21, 2019

Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Cardinal Angelo Sodano as dean of the College of Cardinals and declared that the position will now have a five-year term limit with the possibility of renewal. Previously, cardinal dean, considered “first among equals,” was a life position. Pope Francis created the five-year limit in an apostolic letter

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