“Men do not need the human qualities of the pastors, but rather the warm friendship of God who must dwell in us”, says Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, Archbishop of Genoa and President of CCEE, in a message sent to the participants of the European Congress of national delegates for the pastoral care of vocations in Tirana until next March 3rd.

Recalling the situation of vocations in Europe affected by “a certain decrease in vocations to the priesthood and religious life”, the CCEE President invited the over fifty participants to “think about the changes taking place, to adapt our pastoral care by keeping steady to the pillars of vocation, of formation and of the priestly mission and of the mission of religious men and women”…

Looking for something new to read to make the rest of this season of Lent a spiritually enriching and productive one? Or are you just looking for a good book?

In either case, you may want to consult the Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church, to find out which books have influenced his spiritual life, inspired and simply entertained him…

Opening the Congress, H.E. Mgr Oscar Cantoni, Bishop in charge of the Vocations section of the CCEE Commission Youth, recalled the aims of the meeting in Tirana “everything is aimed at helping the educators of God’s people, and therefore all pastoral workers, in suggesting the most opportune ways so that all the ordinary pastoral care of the Church underlines the vocational dimension and offers useful criteria to accompany young people, all young people, in discerning their personal vocation”…

The Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, writes a letter to the President of the Pontifical Academy for Life, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, on the occasion of the Palliative Care Congress set for 28 February – 1 March 2018. Photo: A member of the Brothers Hospitallers of Saint John of God cares for a patient 

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Italian designer Donatella Versace poses on February 26, 2018, with editor-in-chief of Vogue Anna Wintour and cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, President of the Vatican Pontifical Council for Culture, at Rome’s Palazzo Colonna.

The Vatican, Versace and Vogue are joining forces to show off the Catholic influences in fashion.

The Vatican’s culture minister joined Donatella Versace and Vogue’s Anna Wintour on Monday to offer sneak peek of gorgeous Vatican liturgical vestments, jeweled miters and historic papal tiaras that will star in a spring exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York…

Forty ‘miraculously’ preserved, consecrated hosts have been discovered in a church that was destroyed by a large earthquake in central Italy in 2016.

The hosts, recovered from a tabernacle recently retrieved from the ruins of the parish church of Arquata del Tronto, have no bacteria or mold, as usually happens to hosts after a few weeks, according to the Italian bishops’ newspaper Avvenire…

The United Nations says fighting continued in Eastern Ghouta on Tuesday, despite a brief five-hour daily truce ordered by Russia.

A daily five-hour temporary ceasefire began on Tuesday, but first indications suggest Assad-government artillery strikes on Douma, Harasta and Misraba continued unabated.

For their part, the Russian government accused the rebels of firing mortars on routes earmarked for evacuations, as the violence derailed all aid deliveries and medical evacuations…