Following the large-scale attack on Israel by Palestinian Hamas militants, the Patriarchs and heads of Churches in Jerusalem call for the immediate cessation of all violence and military activities, reiterating that everything is lost with war.

Pope Francis’ impassioned appeal for peace in the Holy Land during the Angelus on Sunday is one of the several voices from Churches around the world calling for an immediate de-escalation of the violence unleashed on 7 October by an Hamas attack which prompted Israel to issue an official declaration of war (“Operation Swords of Iron”)… Read more »

Paolo Ruffini (Photo Vatican News) Paolo Ruffini, President of the Commission for Information of the Synodal Assembly, holds a briefing for journalists to explain the methodology of the Working Groups (Circuli Minores), and foresees press conferences after each module with Synod participants.

The Synod’s 35 working groups, or ‘circuli minores,’ began their work on Thursday, explained Paolo Ruffini, the Prefect of the Dicastery for Communication, who is serving as President of the Commission for Information, whose members will be elected on 9 October… Read more »

Pope Francis has published an Apostolic Exhortation building on his 2015 encyclical. We’re not reacting enough, he says, we’re close to breaking point. He criticises climate change deniers, saying that the human origin of global warming is now beyond doubt. And he describes how care for our common home flows from the Christian faith.

“’Praise God’ is the title of this letter.  For when human beings claim to take God’s place, they become their own worst enemies.”

That’s how Pope Francis ends his new Apostolic Exhortation, published on the 4th October, the Feast of St Francis of Assisi… Read more »

Pope Francis invited the faithful to walk with the Holy Spirit, “in trust and with joy” as he presided over Mass in St Peter’s Square for the Opening of the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops.

The Solemn Mass for the Opening of the Synod of Bishops began with a modern version of the traditional Laudes Regiae hymn, invoking God’s protection and blessing on the Church, on Pope Francis and the Bishops and the flock entrusted to him, and on civil leaders and all women and men… Read more »

L-Arċisqof Emeritu Pawlu Cremona u l-Arċisqof Emeritu George Frendo, it-tnejn Dumnikani, iċċelebraw is-60 anniversarju mill-professjoni reliġjuża tagħhom.

Kien fl-1963 li Pawlu Cremona u George Frendo bdew il-mixja vokazzjonali tagħhom lejn is-saċerdozju bħala patrijiet Dumnikani.

Mons. Cremona, li huwa mwieled il-Belt, ipprofessa fl-Ordni ta’ San Duminku fl-età ta’ 17-il sena, filwaqt li Mons. Frendo, li huwa mwieled Ħal Qormi, ipprofessa fl-età ta’ 16-il sena… Read more »

The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has published Pope Francis’ answers to the questions of Cardinals Brandmüller, Burke, Sandoval Íñiguez, Sarah and Zen Ze-kiun  (VATICAN MEDIA Divisione Foto

Pope Francis has responded to five Dubia [questions; lit. “doubts”] that were sent to him last July by Cardinals Walter Brandmüller and Raymond Leo Burke supported by three other Cardinals, Juan Sandoval Íñiguez, Robert Sarah, and Joseph Zen Ze-kiun… Read more »