CNA Staff, Jan 8, 2021 / 01:00 pm (CNA).- Pope Francis sent a message this week to Cardinal Baltazar Porras Cardoza, as Venezuela suffers the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on top of a severe socio-economic crisis.
“May God continue to give… […]
Vatican City, Jan 8, 2021 / 12:00 pm (CNA).- The Vatican’s ecumenical office is preparing a “joint message” on Martin Luther with the Lutheran World Federation (LWF), a cardinal said Friday.
Cardinal Kurt Koch, president of the Ponti… […]
CNA Staff, Jan 8, 2021 / 10:00 am (CNA).- The Catholic Church in Malta formally dissociated itself on Friday from what it described as a “closed cult community” after a five-month investigation into allegations of psychological and spiritua… […]
Guanajuato, Mexico, Jan 8, 2021 / 09:45 am (CNA).- The traditional youth pilgrimage to the monument of Christ the King on the “Cerro del Cubilete” (Dice Cup Hill) in Guanajuato, Mexico, will take place virtually Jan. 30 due to the coronavir… […]
Caracas, Venezuela, Jan 8, 2021 / 08:12 am (CNA).- The Venezuelan Bishops’ Conference (CEV) announced Friday morning that the 69-year-old Bishop of Trujillo, Cástor Oswaldo Azuaje, has died of COVID-19.Several priests across the country have died of CO… […]
Rome Newsroom, Jan 8, 2021 / 08:05 am (CNA).- Soon-to-be Blessed Rosario Livatino was a Catholic judge brutally killed by the mafia in Sicily in 1990. Today his legal legacy lives on through the work of a center in Italy dedicated to issues of life, th… […]
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jan 8, 2021 / 07:44 am (CNA).- The Catholic former White House chief of staff resigned his post as Special Envoy to Northern Ireland on Thursday, following the storming of the U.S. Capitol by pro-Trump protesters.Mick Mulvane… […]
Vatican City, Jan 8, 2021 / 05:20 am (CNA).- Pope Francis appointed on Friday the first lay head of the Roman Curia’s disciplinary commission.
The Holy See press office announced on Jan. 8 that the pope had named Vincenzo Buonomo, rector of the … […]
CNA Staff, Jan 8, 2021 / 04:00 am (CNA).- Swiss Cardinal Henri Schwery died Thursday at the age of 88.
The cardinal served as bishop of Sion, the oldest Catholic diocese in Switzerland, for nearly 20 years.
Schwery was made a bishop by Pope Paul VI i… […]
CNA Staff, Jan 8, 2021 / 02:30 am (CNA).- German media have criticized the Archdiocese of Cologne for offering to provide a “background briefing” to journalists about an unpublished report into clerical sex abuse on condition that they … […]
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