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24 Jul 2017, 6:01 am by Kit Case
(CNS photo/Paul Haring)Labor unions that protect and defend the dignity of work and the rights of workers continue to have an essential role in society, especially in promoting inclusion, Pope Francis said. [read post]
19 Sep 2017, 11:03 am by Tom Smith
As a follow-up to the publication of “Amoris Laetitia” and the two synods on the family, Pope Francis has refounded the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and the Family, giving it a broader mandate than it originally had to ensure that it does not just focus on moral and sacramental theology, but also takes account of the biblical, dogmatic and historical dimensions, as well as contemporary challenges. [read post]
2 Aug 2018, 11:32 am by Steve Bainbridge
Crux reports that: The Vatican announced on Thursday Pope Francis approved changes to the compendium of Catholic teaching published under Pope John Paul II. [read post]
4 Dec 2014, 2:53 pm by Charles J. Reid, Jr.
Pope Francis may prove to be another pope like these two, someone who offers the possibility of redirecting the path of the world... [read post]
26 Aug 2018, 4:06 am
Paul referred to the Church in Corinth as being espoused to Christ. [read post]
29 Apr 2014, 4:10 am by Howard Friedman
Yesterday the White House issued a statement (full text) from President Obama celebrating Sunday's canonization of Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II. [read post]
5 May 2022, 11:49 am by Tom Smith
This makes Francis’s equivocating on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine all the more frustrating for those who recall how powerful a force for good a Pope can be. [read post]
14 Mar 2013, 9:22 am
A day after the Catholic Church welcomed Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio as Pope Francis, the Hollywood Reporter offers us this look at famous fictional popes. [read post]
4 Aug 2014, 8:50 am by Tom Smith
VATICAN CITY –  Pope Francis has reinstated a Nicaraguan priest suspended by the Vatican in the 1980s for participating in Nicaragua's leftist Sandinista government. [read post]
12 May 2014, 9:44 am by Tom Smith
Peter, Francis’s teachings on Satan are already regarded as the most old school of any pope since at least Paul VI, whose papacy in the 1960s and 1970s fully embraced the notion of hellish forces plotting to deliver mankind unto damnation. [read post]
24 Jul 2015, 2:20 pm by Tom Smith
Despite last year’s media mix up — and despite Paul’s and Benedict's contradictory statement — Pope Francis did just officially declare that animals will join us in heaven, in his June 18 Encyclical, which offers official and binding doctrine on the question. [read post]
26 Jul 2016, 9:21 am by Tom Smith
KRAKOW, Poland — When Pope Francis arrives in Poland this week for World Youth Day, he will meet a nation still deeply committed to its conservative Catholic traditions and to the memory of St. [read post]
9 Jan 2024, 4:05 am by Howard Friedman
The Pope's call echoes the position taken in 1987 by Pope John Paul II in Instruction on Respect for Human Life in Its Origin and on the Dignity of Procreation: Replies to Certain Questions of the Day (full text). [read post]
Pope Francis on Sunday named 13 new cardinals, including Washington DC Archbishop Wilton Gregory, an outspoken civil rights advocate who will become the first Black American to be appointed to the office in the Roman Catholic Church. [read post]
5 Jul 2013, 7:15 am
The Vatican said Francis had the power to dispense with the normal saint-making procedures to canonize John on his own merits." [read post]
25 Jun 2013, 8:00 am by Tom Smith
As for Pope Francis, however, I'm starting to really like him. [read post]
25 May 2014, 6:11 am by Howard Friedman
Pope Francis is on a 3-day visit to the Holy Land, originally described by the Vatican as follows:The Holy Father will travel to the Holy Land from Saturday, 24 May to Monday, 26 May, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the historic embrace between Paul VI and Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras in Jerusalem on 5 January 1964.The trip takes the Pope to Jordan, the Palestinian territories and Israel. the Full text of all the Papal addresses during the trip and all… [read post]