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Pope Francis canonizes two new saints: St. Artemide Zatti and St. Giovanni Battista Scalabrini

October 9, 2022 Catholic News Agency 7

Banner of St. Artemide Zatti at his canonization Mass on Oct. 9, 2022. / Daniel Ibanez/CNA

Vatican City, Oct 9, 2022 / 04:30 am (CNA).
The Catholic Church gained two new saints on Sunday as Pope Francis canonized St. Artemide Zatti and St. Giov… […]

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French Jesuit and American legal scholar win 2022 Ratzinger Prize

October 7, 2022 Catholic News Agency 1

Credit: © L’Osservatore Romano / Pope Benedict XVI in Vatican City on August 28, 2010.

CNA Newsroom, Oct 7, 2022 / 03:01 am (CNA).
A French Jesuit and an American legal scholar were named the recipients of this year’s Ratzinger prize on Friday…. […]

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Order of Malta’s former chancellor writes letter about Pope Francis, calls for unity in time of crisis 

October 6, 2022 Catholic News Agency 0

Albrecht von Boeselager. / Daniel Ibáñez/CNA.

Rome Newsroom, Oct 6, 2022 / 06:30 am (CNA).
The former grand chancellor of the Order of Malta has written a letter to members calling for unity while also expressing concern over the new constituti… […]

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Pope Francis to meet Muslim leaders, small Christian community in Bahrain

October 6, 2022 Catholic News Agency 1

Pope Francis blesses a young boy in the Syriac Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception in Bakhdida, Iraq, on March 7, 2021. Photo credits: Vatican Media. / null

Rome Newsroom, Oct 6, 2022 / 05:40 am (CNA).
On the first-ever papal visit to … […]

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Pope Francis: ‘Saints do not come from a parallel universe’

October 6, 2022 Catholic News Agency 1

Pope Francis meeting participants at the “Holiness Today” conference on Oct. 6, 2022. / Vatican Media

Rome Newsroom, Oct 6, 2022 / 05:07 am (CNA).
What does it look like to be a Catholic saint today? A Vatican conference taking place in Rome th… […]

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Opus Dei announces an extraordinary general congress to change its statutes

October 5, 2022 Catholic News Agency 1

Msgr. Fernando Ocáriz / Photo credit: Flickr Opus Dei Communications Office

Rome Newsroom, Oct 5, 2022 / 22:00 pm (CNA).
The prelate of Opus Dei, Monsignor Fernando Ocáriz, announced in a letter Oct. 5 that he will convene an extraordinary gene… […]

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Tourist who ‘wanted to see the pope’ smashes busts at the Vatican Museums

October 5, 2022 Catholic News Agency 1

The sculptures of the Chiaramonte Gallery in the Vatican Museums on June 8, 2020, in Vatican City. / Photo by Marco Di Lauro/Getty Images

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 5, 2022 / 15:30 pm (CNA).
A man visiting the Vatican museums in Rome on Wed… […]

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Public spat between German bishop, Swiss cardinal leads to private meeting in Rome

October 5, 2022 Catholic News Agency 31

Bishop Georg Bätzing (left) and Cardinal Kurt Koch / Maximilian von Lachner / Synodaler Weg // Paul Badde / EWTN

CNA Newsroom, Oct 5, 2022 / 06:46 am (CNA).
Following demands for an apology and a threat he might “file an official complaint with… […]

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Climate change documentary features Pope Francis

October 4, 2022 Catholic News Agency 4

Pope Francis meets Arouna Kandé, one of the subjects of the documentary “The Letter.” / Photo credit: Laudato Si’ Movement

Vatican City, Oct 4, 2022 / 12:00 pm (CNA).
Pope Francis is featured in a documentary film on climate change and the envi… […]

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Analysis: Amid new testimonies, Vatican corruption trial points to key question

October 4, 2022 Catholic News Agency 2

A hearing in the Vatican finance trial on May 20, 2022. / Vatican Media.

Vatican City, Oct 4, 2022 / 11:00 am (CNA).
The hearings at the Vatican’s corruption trial resumed last week and shed light on new aspects of the “trial of the century” an… […]

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