Vatican News

Pope Francis on Thursday, June 3, appointed a Filipino archbishop as new apostolic nuncio to Israel and Cyprus.

The Vatican has released on Tuesday, June 1, major revisions to the Catholic Church’s Code of Canon Law, including sanctions related to clergy sex abuse cases.

Pope Francis called for “a new ecological approach” to the environment even as he decried the “predatory attitude” that people have toward the planet.

Cardinal Tagle said “every baptized person has received a gift from the Holy Spirit that must be developed by participating in the mission itself”

Pope Francis urged people to continue to listen to the “cry of the earth and to the cry of the poor” as the Catholic Church marked the end of the “Laudato si Year” observance on Monday, May 24.

Pope Francis called on the people of Myanmar “to keep the faith” and to not allow themselves to be divided amid the conflict brought about by the military coup in the Southeast Asian country.

Pope Francis formally established the new lay ministry of catechist in the Catholic Church in an apostolic letter released on Tuesday, May 11.

Pope Francis will celebrate Mass with people from Myanmar in Rome on Ascension Sunday, May 16.

Pope Francis took to Twitter to underscore the importance of multilateral diplomacy and cooperation for solutions to the world’s problems.

The Vatican announced this week a rosary initiative dedicating the month of May to prayer for an end to the coronavirus pandemic.

The Vatican has released a statement urging Christians and Muslims to be “bearers of hope” on the occasion of the start of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan last week.

Cardinal Edward Cassidy, first papal nuncio to Bangladesh, died in Newcastle, Australia, on April 10. He was 96 years old.

Pope Francis thanked the Filipino faithful for their “witness of strength and trust in God, who never abandons you”

Pope Francis urged people around the world not to give up hope despite all the challenges, including the coronavirus pandemic, in his traditional Easter message “Urbi et Orbi” – to the city and the world.

Pope Francis said on Saturday that he hoped the dark times of the pandemic would end and that people could rediscover “the grace of everyday life.”

A group of children read the meditations, stopping 14 times around the St. Peter’s Square to mark each of the “Stations of the Cross,” starting with the first when Jesus was condemned to death by Pontius Pilate to the last when he was buried in a tomb.

Pope Francis urged priests to be humble like Jesus as he began three busy days leading to Easter — all scaled down because of the coronavirus pandemic — with a Holy Thursday Mass.

Pope Francis said he is thinking of the innocent victims of war, everyday violence, and abortion who are “crucified in our time” during the observance of the Holy Week.

Father Jacob Pallipurath, who fought state elections in 1983 and won as an independent candidate, was a legislator in the state assembly for one term.

The conference will take place during the 150th anniversary of the consecration of Ecuador to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.