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Giulia Cirillo gives Pope Francis a report from Catholics with disabilities on Sept. 21, 2022. | Vatican Media

‘Full members of Church’: Catholics with Disabilities Contribute to Synod on Synodality

Sep 21, 2022

Catholics with disabilities delivered to Pope Francis on Wednesday a report they prepared for the Synod on Synodality.

Pope Francis met with the Italian Autism Foundation in the Vatican's Clementine Hall on April 1, 2022. Vatican Media

Pope Francis Advocates for Inclusion of People with Disabilities in Society

Apr 1, 2022

The pope underlined that the Church in particular is called to help those with disabilities to “make their voices heard.”

Pope Francis met with members of Voir Ensemble, a Christian movement of blind and visually impaired people on Feb. 19, 2022. Vatican Media

Pope Francis Meets Christian Movement of Blind and Visually Impaired People

Feb 19, 2022

The French association, Voir Ensemble (Seeing Together), was founded in 1927 by Father Yves Mollat, a blind Jesuit priest.

Some of the beneficiaries at Hope for Life project run by the Society of African Missions in Ghana. Credit: Hope for Life

Catholic Missionaries’ Project in Ghana Getting People Living with Disability Off Streets

May 6, 2021

On the Accra streets in Ghana, people born with disabilities lead miserable lives after they are abandoned by their families owing to cultural beliefs.

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Members of the Episcopal Conference of Ivory Coast (CECCI). Credit: CECCI

Ivory Coast’s Catholic Bishops Appeal for “restraint, moderation” ahead of Local Elections

Today, June 6, We Celebrate St. Marcellin Champagnat

Catholic Bishops in Uganda with government officials at the end of the Eucharistic Celebration marking Martyrs Day 2023. Credit: Uagnada Catholic Online

Impose “stricter measures” on Gun Circulation: Catholic Bishops in Uganda to Government

Catholic Bishops in DR Congo in procession during Holy Mass to mark the start of the third National Eucharistic Congress. Credit: CENCO

Eucharistic Congress in DR Congo: Archbishop Presents “perfect love” of Trinity as Model

=Mons. Gian Luca Perici (right), appointed Apostolic Nuncio for the Southern African countries of Zambia and Malawi and Mons. Alfred Chaima (left), appointed as Local Ordinary of Zomba Diocese in Malawi. Credit: Courtesy Photo

Pope Francis Appoints New Apostolic Nuncio for Zambia/Malawi, Bishop for Malawian Diocese

Bishop Jean de Dieu Raoelison, appointed Archbishop of Madagascar’s Antananarivo Archdiocese on 5 June 2023. Credit: Courtesy Photo

Archbishop of Antananarivo in Madagascar Retires, Pope Francis Appoints Successor

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Late Bishop Macram Max Gassis, the first Catholic Bishop of El Obeid Diocese in Sudan, who has passed on in the U.S on 4 June 2023. Credit: Courtesy Photo

Pioneer Catholic Bishop of Sudan’s El Obeid Diocese Dies in U.S. at 84

Holy Trinity, detail of Iconostasis in Greek Catholic Co-cathedral of Saints Cyril and Methodius in Zagreb, Croatia. | Shutterstock

Trinity Sunday 2023: 10 Illuminating Quotes From the Saints about the Holy Trinity

Pope Francis delivers his Angelus address on June 4, 2023. | Vatican Media

Pope Francis Explains Why Catholics Make the Sign of the Cross

Professor Tebello Nyokong, appointed member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences on 2 June 2023. Credit: Courtesy Photo

Professor in South Africa Appointed to Vatican Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences

Sister Scholastica Radel (left) and Mother Abbess Cecilia Snell of the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles, discuss the recent exhumation of the order's foundress, Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster, in an interview with EWTN News In Depth on May 30, 2023, at their abbey in Gower, Missouri. | EWTN News

"A unifying moment": Sister Wilhelmina’s Nuns Share their Story in Exclusive TV Interview

Fr. Stanislaus Mbamara reportedly abducted on June 2 from the Catholic Diocese of Nnewi in Nigeria. Credit: Nnewi Diocese

Prayer Appeal for “quick release in good health” of Catholic Priest Abducted in Nigeria

Fr. Stanislaus Mbamara freed on 4 June 2023 after two days in captivity in the Catholic Diocese of Nnewi in Nigeria. Credit: Nnewi Diocese

“Joy” as Catholic Priest in Nigerian Diocese Regains Freedom after Two Days in Captivity

Pope Francis prays at his Wednesday audience in St. Peter’s Square on April 12, 2023. | Daniel Ibáñez/CNA

Pope Francis Prays for Victims of Train Crash in India that Killed 275 People

=Mons. Gian Luca Perici (right), appointed Apostolic Nuncio for the Southern African countries of Zambia and Malawi and Mons. Alfred Chaima (left), appointed as Local Ordinary of Zomba Diocese in Malawi. Credit: Courtesy Photo

Pope Francis Appoints New Apostolic Nuncio for Zambia/Malawi, Bishop for Malawian Diocese

Bishop Jean de Dieu Raoelison, appointed Archbishop of Madagascar’s Antananarivo Archdiocese on 5 June 2023. Credit: Courtesy Photo

Archbishop of Antananarivo in Madagascar Retires, Pope Francis Appoints Successor

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