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These are the latest news about Pope Francis, the Vatican, and the Catholic Church, provided by the Vatican staff of Catholic News Agency, a service of EWTN News.

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Cardinal Pietro Parolin celebrates Mass in St. Peter's Basilica on April 27, 2017.

Pope Francis transfers financial administration out of Secretariat of State

Nov 5, 2020

By Hannah Brockhaus

Pope Francis has requested that all responsibility for financial funds and real estate assets, including a controversial London property, be... Read more

Pope Francis at his general audience in the library of the Apostolic Palace Nov. 4, 2020.

Pope Francis requires bishops to have Vatican permission for new diocesan religious institutes

Nov 4, 2020

By Hannah Brockhaus

Pope Francis has changed canon law to require a bishop to have permission from the Holy See prior to establishing... Read more

Pope Francis gives a general audience address in the library of the Apostolic Palace.

Pope Francis: Consistent prayer strengthens us in times of tribulation

Nov 4, 2020

Jesus teaches us that we must be consistent in our prayer, Pope Francis said at the general audience Wednesday.  Read more

ASIMO, a humanoid robot created by Honda in 2000 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Pope Francis: Pray that robotics and AI always serve humankind

Nov 3, 2020

Pope Francis has invited Catholics around the world to pray that robotics and artificial intelligence will remain always at the... Read more

Pope Francis celebrates Mass at the Church of Our Lady of Mercy in the Teutonic Cemetery in Vatican City Nov. 2, 2020.

Pope Francis on All Souls’ Day: Christian hope gives life meaning

Nov 2, 2020

By Courtney Mares

Pope Francis visited a cemetery in Vatican City to pray on All Souls Day Monday and offered Mass for the... Read more

Police seal off the street after the attack at the basilica in Nice, France, Oct. 29, 2020.

French police make six arrests over Nice terror attack

Nov 2, 2020

By Courtney Mares

French police have arrested a total of six men in their investigation into the attack on the Basilica of Notre-Dame... Read more

Pope Francis (left), with Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State.

Vatican Secretariat of State provides context of Pope Francis civil union remark

Nov 1, 2020

The Vatican’s Secretary of State has asked papal representatives to share with bishops some clarifications regarding comments on civil unions... Read more

Pope Francis at the General House of the Society of Jesus in Rome, Dec. 13, 2019.

Pope Francis says more action coming in fight against Vatican corruption

Oct 30, 2020

By Hannah Brockhaus

Pope Francis has said more changes are on the horizon as the Vatican continues to combat financial corruption inside its... Read more

Pope Francis waves to pilgrims at his general audience at the Paul VI Audience Hall Oct. 28. 2020.

Pope Francis’ general audience again moves behind closed doors

Oct 29, 2020

By Hannah Brockhaus

After nine weeks of public general audiences, Pope Francis’ weekly gathering will again take place behind closed doors, the Vatican... Read more

Basilique Notre-Dame de l'Assomption, Nice, France.

US bishops join Pope Francis in prayer and mourning after Nice attack

Oct 29, 2020

The bishops of the United States joined Pope Francis Thursday in mourning a deadly attack at a basilica in Nice.  Read more

Pope Francis prays for victims of terrorist attack at French basilica

Oct 29, 2020

By Hannah Brockhaus

After three people were killed in a terrorist attack in a basilica in Nice, France, on Thursday, a Vatican spokesman... Read more

After Pope Francis' civil union remarks, archbishop recalls Argentina's civil unions debate

Oct 28, 2020

After remarks in a newly-released documentary from Pope Francis on civil unions, the archbishop emeritus of La Plata, Argentina, has... Read more

Fr. Leonard Melki, pictured in Lebanon in 1911.

Pope Francis recognizes martyrdom of Lebanese priests killed under Ottoman Empire

Oct 28, 2020

By Courtney Mares

Pope Francis Wednesday advanced the sainthood causes of nine men and women, including two Lebanese priests martyred under the Ottoman Empire.  Read more

Pope Francis at his general audience in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican Oct. 28, 2020.

Pope Francis appeals for peace in Cameroon after deadly school attack

Oct 28, 2020

By Courtney Mares

Pope Francis appealed for an end to violence in Cameroon Wednesday after seven students were killed in an attack on... Read more

Pope Francis delivers his general audience address in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican, Oct. 28, 2020.

Pope Francis supports Polish Catholics in fight against abortion

Oct 28, 2020

By Courtney Mares

Pope Francis told Polish Catholics Wednesday that he asks St. John Paul II’s intercession for respect for life, amid protests... Read more

Pope Francis attends the general audience in the Paul VI Audience Hall Oct. 21, 2020.

Pope Francis urges Europe’s leaders to rediscover ‘path of fraternity’

Oct 27, 2020

Pope Francis warned Europe’s leaders Tuesday that the project of European unity is at risk unless they “rediscover the path... Read more

Pope Francis' Christmas liturgies to take place without public

Oct 26, 2020

By Hannah Brockhaus

Pope Francis' Christmas liturgies at the Vatican will be offered without public participation this year, as countries continue to react... Read more

Pope Francis meets teachers and students from Rome’s Pontifical Theological Faculty "Marianum" at the Paul VI Audience Hall Oct. 24.

Pope Francis: 'The times we live in are times of Mary'

Oct 26, 2020

Pope Francis said Saturday that the times we live in are the “times of Mary.”  Read more

Pope Francis waves from his window overlooking St. Peter’s Square during an Angelus address.

Pope Francis prays for peace and justice in Nigeria

Oct 25, 2020

Pope Francis appealed for an end to violence in Nigeria after reciting the Angelus Sunday.  Read more

Pope Francis pictured at his window overlooking St. Peter’s Square during an Angelus address.

Pope Francis to create 13 new cardinals, including Washington Archbishop Gregory

Oct 25, 2020

Pope Francis said Sunday that he will create 13 new cardinals, including Washington Archbishop Wilton Gregory, at a consistory on... Read more

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According to central government statistics, since Oct. 1, 2018 there have been 379 disappearances of minors, mostly girls, in Morelos state alone. 

Catholic Church raises alarm over disappearance of children in Mexico

Cardinal Timothy Dolan sits between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump at the annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner at the Waldorf Astoria on Oct. 20, 2016, in New York City.

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View of the coastal part of the city of Aden, Yemen.

Yemeni Christians pressured to conform to Islamic law: ‘We were forced to wear the hijab’ 

Father Timothy Radcliffe told the Synod on Synodality delegates that the time before the 2024 assembly “will be probably the most fertile time of the whole synod, the time of germination.”

Ahead of synod, prominent prelates publish on ‘LGBTQ issues’

St. Pio of Pietrelcina.

Padre Pio spoke languages ​​he didn’t know: the gift of xenoglossia

Pope Francis meets with members of the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) on Friday, Jan. 26, 2024.

Pope Francis names consultants to Vatican doctrine office, including controversial theologian

Worshippers gather to pray in front of the exhumed body of mystic-saint Padre Pio in the Catholic Church of San Lorenzo fuori le Mura (St. Lawrence Outside the Walls) in Rome on Feb. 4, 2016.

Padre Pio: 13 facts about the saint to know and share

English actress and international disability rights activist Liz Carr, who produced and stars in the 2024 BBC documentary "Better Off Dead?", speaks in the U.S. Congress on Sept. 18, 2024.

‘Better Off Dead?’ documentary sharpens suicide prevention focus

The California state capitol. Unlike their counterparts in Colorado, California’s Catholic bishops’ conference has not taken a position on the proposed state constitutional amendment that would repeal a 2008 state constitutional amendment that defined marriage as a union between one man and one woman.

Ballot measures could remove definition of marriage from three state constitutions

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