International News

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Cardinal Burke continues to recover, urges Catholics to pray rosary daily

October 19, 2021

LA CROSSE, Wis. -- Cardinal Raymond L. Burke said his recovery from COVID-19 is continuing with the help of physical therapy and he is now able to celebrate daily Mass.

Sorrow must turn to action: Archbishop

October 13, 2021

VATICAN CITY -- Shame and sorrow are appropriate initial responses to the report on the extent of clerical sexual abuse in France, but the Catholic Church must move to action to protect children and to guarantee justice for victims and survivors, said Archbishop Charles J. Scicluna.

‘We’re going to have to wake up to the fact there’s a systemic problem’

October 13, 2021

Over the past five years, on Tuesdays at noon at the Church of St. Louis d’Antin, in the 9th arrondissement of Paris near the Passage du Havre shopping centre, a shy, scholarly Canadian priest would approach the altar to offer Mass and call the assembly of immigrants and downtown shoppers to confess their sinfulness.

Pilgrims flock to beatified teen's tomb in Assisi ahead of feast day

October 12, 2021

ROME -- Thousands of pilgrims have flocked to the tomb of Blessed Carlo Acutis, the 15-year-old Italian teenager whose use of technology to spread devotion to the Eucharist prompted Pope Francis to hail him as a role model for young people today.

Pope Francis, faith leaders jointly urge nations to care for creation

October 6, 2021

VATICAN CITY -- High-level representatives of the world’s religions came together with Pope Francis at the Vatican to show their joint commitment to caring for the Earth and to appeal to world leaders to deepen their commitments to mitigating climate change.

Report estimates 330,000 children abused in French church since 1950s

October 6, 2021

An independent report on sexual abuse in the French Catholic Church estimates 330,000 children have been abused since the 1950s. Most of the victims were pre-adolescent boys of all social backgrounds, and more than a third of the assaults were committed by laypeople.

World leaders must to do more to help the vulnerable, cardinal tells UN

September 29, 2021

VATICAN CITY -- World leaders must rely on hope rather than isolation and withdrawal to confront current and future challenges, said Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state.

South Sudan church leaders work for peace, but soldiers won't listen

September 28, 2021

YAMBIO, South Sudan -- Pope Francis may have kissed the feet of South Sudan's warring political leaders in a dramatic 2019 appeal for peace, but armed conflict continues to cause death and displacement in the world's newest country, pushing Catholic leaders here to plead for the conflict's victims.

Vatican in 67,000 pieces

September 22, 2021

We all know Rome wasn’t built in a day, but LEGO architect Rocco Buttliere had three months.

Pastoral outreach depends on looking forward, Pope Francis tells Jesuits

September 22, 2021

VATICAN CITY -- The Catholic Church suffers from a temptation to attempt to return to attitudes and practices of the past, an attitude that blocks pastoral outreach to many of those who are marginalized, Pope Francis told Jesuits in Slovakia.