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Pope Francis greets pilgrims at his general audience on Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024, at the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican. | Credit: Vatican Media

Avarice is a "sickness of the heart, not of the wallet": Pope Francis

Jan 24, 2024

In his Wednesday general audience, Pope Francis said the preoccupation with the accumulation of material goods reflects a greater “pathological accumulation.”

Sculpture of St. Peter outside of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican. | Credit: Unsplash

Vatican Appeals Court Sentences Priest to Prison for Sexual Abuse of Teen

Jan 24, 2024

Father Gabriele Martinelli was accused of forcing the former altar server, identified as L.G., to have sexual relations with him between 2007 and 2012.

Young people greet Pope Francis as he arrives at the World Youth Day welcoming ceremony in Lisbon, Portugal, Aug. 3, 2023. | Credit: Jesus Huerta/Flickr JMJ Lisboa 2023

Pope Francis Recalls "primary reason" for New Edition of Youth Catechism

Jan 23, 2024

The full text was published yesterday by the Italian newspaper La Stampa and is titled “The Password for Joy.”

Pope Francis meets with the journalists who cover the Vatican in the Apostolic Palace on Jan. 22, 2024. | Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Francis Thanks Vatican Journalists for Reporting on Scandals in the Church

Jan 22, 2024

Journalists accredited to the Holy See Press Office met the pope in a private audience at the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace on Jan. 22. 

Pope Francis announced the start of a Year of Prayer in his Angelus address from the window of the Vatican's Apostolic Palace on Jan. 21, 2024. | Vatican Media

Pope Francis Announces Year of Prayer to Prepare for 2025 Jubilee

Jan 21, 2024

In his Angelus address, the pope said that a Year of Prayer starting on Jan. 21 will be “a year dedicated to rediscovering the great value and absolute need for prayer.”

Cardinal Kurt Koch, president of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity, speaks with EWTN Vatican Bureau Chief Andreas Thonhauser on Jan. 18, 2024. | Credit: EWTN

Vatican prefect: Fiducia Supplicans draws ‘some negative reactions’ from Christian leaders

Jan 19, 2024

In an exclusive EWTN interview and in comments to the Vatican’s news agency, Cardinal Kurt Koch said he has received negative reactions to Fiducia Supplicans.

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Week of Prayer for Christian Unity commemorates historic meeting of two lungs of the Church

Jan 18, 2024

The theme for 2024 is “You shall love the Lord your God ... and your neighbor as yourself.”

Pope Francis delivers a message at his general audience on Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024, in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican. | Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Francis Issues New Regulations Setting Spending Limits for Vatican Offices

Jan 17, 2024

Pope Francis amended the Vatican’s financial regulations on Tuesday, enshrining a spending limit into law.

Pope Francis delivers a speech to all of the world’s ambassadors to the Vatican on Jan. 8, 2024. | Credit: Vatican Media

Pope: World Economic Forum Meeting an Opportunity to Find "ways to build a better world"

Jan 17, 2024

On the occasion of the 54th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Pope Francis sent a letter to the group’s leader.

Pope Francis gives a blessing at his general audience on Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024, in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican. | Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Francis: "In Christianity, there is no condemnation of the sexual instinct"

Jan 17, 2024

In a continuation of his catechetical series on vice and virtue, Pope Francis on Wednesday dedicated his general audience to the difference between love and lust.

Pope Francis takes part in the Roman Curia’s Lenten retreat in Ariccia, Italy, on March 6-10, 2016. | Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Francis to Hold Private Lenten Retreat for Fifth Consecutive Year

Jan 16, 2024

For the fifth consecutive year the joint retreat between the Holy Father and the Roman Curia has been canceled.

Pope Francis speaks at a meeting with priests from the Diocese of Rome in the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran on Jan. 13, 2024. | Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Francis Responds to Resistance to Fiducia Supplicans: "The Lord blesses everyone"

Jan 15, 2024

Pope Francis responded publicly to questions about the Vatican’s declaration on blessings for same-sex couples for the first time in a television interview on Sunday night. 

Pope Francis appearing on Che Tempo Che Fa on Jan. 14/ | NOVE

Pope Francis: "I like to think of hell as empty"

Jan 15, 2024

Pope Francis appeared on Italy’s most popular prime-time talk show on Sunday night where the pontiff shared how he hopes that hell is “empty.”

Cardinal Pietro Parolin celebrates Mass for peace in Ukraine on Thursday in the Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome, Nov. 17, 2022. | Credit: Daniel Ibáñez / CNA

Fiducia Supplicans "has touched a very sensitive point": Vatican Secretary of State

Jan 13, 2024

The Vatican’s secretary of state acknowledged the divided reaction to Fiducia Supplicans, which allows nonliturgical blessings for couples in “irregular” situations.

The ordination of St. Hilary of Poitiers. | Credit: Richard de Montbaston et collaborateurs/Public domain via Wikimedia Commons

What Pope Benedict XVI Said about St. Hilary of Poitiers

Jan 13, 2024

St. Hilary of Poitiers, who was named a doctor of the Church, battled against the Arian heresy that Jesus was not divine.

Pope Francis meets with representatives of DIALOP, Transversal Dialogue Project, an association of European leftist politicians and academics that seeks to bridge Catholic social teaching and Marxist theory, on Jan. 10, 2024, at the Vatican. | Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Francis Calls for Greater Dialogue and Cooperation Between Christians, Marxists

Jan 12, 2024

Pope Francis this week called for cooperation between Christians and Marxists as a way to achieve greater “dialogue” and help in the search for the “common good.”

St. Arcadius. | Credit: Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Today the Church honors 3 groups of martyrs as Christians worldwide continue to face persecution

Jan 12, 2024

On Jan. 12, we honor the feast days of several martyrs and groups of martyrs at a time when there are more martyrs than ever.

Bernini's baldacchino at the papal Mass on Jan. 1, 2024. | Credit: Vatican Media

Vatican Announces Major Restoration Project in St. Peter’s Basilica

Jan 11, 2024

The Vatican announced on Thursday that the soaring baldacchino over the main altar of St. Peter’s Basilica will undergo a major restoration.

Pope Francis greets pilgrims at his Wednesday general audience on Jan. 10, 2024. | Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Francis at audience: Gluttony is Perhaps the Most Dangerous Vice

Jan 10, 2024

In the third installment of his catechetical series on vice and virtue, Pope Francis on Wednesday focused on the sin of gluttony.

Pope Francis greets Archbishop Charles Scicluna. | Credit: Vatican Media

Vatican Official at Doctrine of Faith Dicastery Says Church Should Allow Married Priests

Jan 9, 2024

Archbishop Charles Scicluna said that the Church should learn from the Eastern Churches, which allow married men the option to get ordained to the priesthood.