Courtney Mares

These measures come in the weeks leading up to Pope Francis’ March 5-8 trip to Iraq. The pope’s schedule includes a Mass at the Chaldean Cathedral of Saint Joseph in Baghdad on March 6 and a visit to the Syriac Immaculate Conception Cathedral in Bakhdida March 7.

rome newsroom, feb 15, 2021 / 06:30 am mt ( cna ) .- the iraqi government has announced new covid-19 restrictions, including the closure of ...

In his Angelus address on Jan. 17, the Day of St Anthony, the pope offered a reflection on Jesus’ first encounter and call of his disciples Andrew and Simon Peter in the Gospel of John

vatican city, jan 17, 2021 / 06:00 am mt (cna).- pope francis said sunday that great joy is found when one offers his life in service to god...

Fr. Adolf Kajpr was a Jesuit priest and journalist who was imprisoned in Dachau concentration camp after publishing Catholic magazines critical of the Nazis. Five years after his liberation from Dachau, Kajpr was arrested by Communist authorities in Prague and sentenced to 12 years in a gulag for writing “seditious” articles.

rome newsroom, jan 7, 2021 / 07:10 am mt (cna).- the sainthood cause of a catholic priest who was imprisoned by both the nazis and the commu...

In the live video broadcast from the Apostolic Palace, the pope said that “things will get better to the extent that, with God's help, we work together for the common good, putting the weakest and most disadvantaged at the center.”

vatican city, jan 3, 2021 / 09:30 am mt (cna).- pope francis warned sunday against the temptation to ignore the suffering of others during t...

In a statement Jan. 3, the Holy See Press Office said that the pope had accepted the archbishop’s resignation in accordance with the Church canon that requests that a bishop offers his resignation to the pope at the age of 75.

vatican city, jan 3, 2021 / 06:15 am mt (cna).- less than two weeks after archbishop tadeusz kondrusiewicz of minsk was allowed to return to...

rome newsroom, oct 20, 2021 / 06:10 am there will be no godfathers named in the sicilian archdiocese of catania for the next three years due...

In a statement released Jan. 2, the head of the Vatican health service, Dr. Andrea Arcangeli, said that the Vatican has purchased a low temperature refrigerator to store the vaccine and expects to begin administering vaccinations in the second half of January in the atrium of Paul VI Hall.

vatican city, jan 2, 2021 / 09:00 am mt (cna).- coronavirus vaccines are scheduled to arrive in vatican city next week, according to the vat...

a pro-life group in france has denounced president emmanuel macron’s call to add abortion to the eu charter of fundamental rights. “advocati...

rome newsroom, nov 3, 2021 / 07:00 am a prisoner held in a cell in north korea for two months noticed a distinctive pattern of behavior amon...

hungary’s ambassador to the holy see eduard habsburg says that pope francis will find “a vibrant christian country” when he visits hungary t...