VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis will travel to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates Dec. 1-3 to participate in the U.N. Climate Change Conference, the Vatican press office confirmed. In an interview broadcast in Italy Nov. 1, the pope had said
Pope Francis again called for the release of hostages taken from Israel by Hamas militants and for allowing humanitarian aid into Gaza. "I am always thinking about the serious situation in Palestine and Israel," the pope said during his weekly general audience
Pope Francis will celebrate a memorial Mass Nov. 3 for Pope Benedict XVI and cardinals and bishops who have died in the past year.
The previous day, the Nov. 2 feast of All Souls, the pope will celebrate Mass at the Rome War
Pope Francis welcomed Loretto Sister Jeannine Gramick, co-founder of New Ways Ministry, and members of the ministry's staff to his residence Oct. 17, spending 50 minutes with them, New Ways said.
New Ways Ministry, a LGBTQ+ outreach, described the meeting in a press
All active cardinals, whether they lead a diocese far from Rome or head a department of the Roman Curia, are appointed members of Vatican dicasteries, tribunals and offices as part of their service to the pope and the universal church.
The new assignments
New U.S. Cardinal Robert F. Prevost was the first of 20 cardinals to receive his red hat from Pope Francis at a consistory Sept. 30.
The 68-year-old Chicago-born prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops spoke to Catholic News Service soon after the ceremony
When former intelligence official David Grusch testified before Congress in July that the U.S. government had retrieved crashed UFOs and covertly attempted to reverse engineer their alien technology, some Catholics already were primed to debate the compatibility of extraterrestrial intelligence and church
The Dicastery for Laity, the Family and Life announced Sept. 26 that Pope Francis had chosen as the theme for the upcoming Nov. 26 celebration "Rejoicing in hope," from Romans 12:12.
And for World Youth Day Nov. 24, 2024, he chose: "Those who
The new document, expected to be released Oct. 4, is what the pope has described as a follow-up to his 2015 encyclical "Laudato Si', On Care for Our Common Home."
Pope Francis revealed the title of the new document during a meeting Sept.
As fires continued to burn on the Hawaiian island of Maui and as the death toll continued to rise, Pope Francis offered his prayers and his encouragement to firefighters and rescue workers.