Cardinal Renato Martino, longtime Vatican diplomat, dies at 91
Cardinal Renato Raffaele Martino, who served for 16 years as the top Vatican diplomat to the United Nations and headed up two key pontifical councils in Rome for several years, died on Monday at age 91.
Protecting Minors Commission presents Annual Report in Vatican
The first-ever Annual Report on Church Policies and Procedures for Safeguarding, covering the 2023 calendar year, produced by the...
Vatican’s Deepavali message: Let’s join hands as children of God
The Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue sends well wishes to those celebrating the Hindu feast of Deepavali, and invites Christians...
Synodality: A conversion aimed at becoming more missionary
The Final Document, adopted today after each of its 155 paragraphs were approved, has been published, and will not become the basis of an...
‘He Loved Us’: Pope Francis’ new encyclical on the Sacred Heart of Jesus
“Dilexit nos,” Pope Francis’ fourth Encyclical, retraces the tradition and relevance of thought on “the human and divine love of the heart...
Indonesian bishop declines cardinal appointment to ‘grow in priestly life’
The Vatican announced Tuesday evening that Pope Francis had accepted the request of Indonesian Bishop Paskalis Bruno Syukur, OFM, not to...