The Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization announces that Pope Francis is to join Marian sanctuaries across the world, to pray to the Virgin Mary for help amidst the pandemic. By Gabriella Ceraso “Devoted and with one accord to prayer, together with Mary (cf. Acts 1:14)”. On this theme Pope Francis will lead the…
Pope Francis will honor one of his predecessors during a livestreamed Mass on Monday. The ceremony will be held at Pope John II’s tomb in honor of what would have been his 100th birthday. Pope St. John Paul, II, who was born in 1920, became the Bishop of Rome in 1978. He died in 2005…
Pope Francis has accepted the proposal from the Higher Committee of Human Fraternity for May 14, 2020, to be a Day of Prayer and Fasting and Works of Charity, to implore God to help humanity overcome the coronavirus pandemic. The Holy Father made this announcement after praying the Regina Caeli from the Library of the…
ROME – On Friday, the Vatican announced that Pope Francis has promoted Italian Cardinal Benjamin Stella and Filipino Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle to cardinal-bishops, the highest category a prelate can belong to apart from being the pope himself. The College of Cardinals is made up of three different ranks: cardinal deacons, cardinal priests and cardinal…
Letter of His Holiness Pope Francisto the Faithful for the Month of May 2020 Dear Brothers and Sisters, The month of May is approaching, a time when the People of God express with particular intensity their love and devotion for the Blessed Virgin Mary. It is traditional in this month to pray the Rosary…
Vatican City, Apr 12, 2020 / 05:40 am (CNA).- Here is the full text of Pope Francis’ Urbi et Orbi message, delivered April 12 at the Basilica of St. Peter. Dear brothers and sisters, Happy Easter! Today the Church’s proclamation echoes throughout the world: “Jesus Christ is risen!” – “He is truly risen.” Like a new…
On Good Friday, the Liturgy of the Passion with the Adoration of the Cross,will take place in St. Peter’s Basilica. The Crucifix of St. Marcellus will be covered. The Preacher of the Papal Household, Father Raniero Cantalamessa, will deliver a meditation, after which the Crucifix will be revealed. Adoration will follow, without the traditional kissing of…
SOURCE CNA Vatican City, Apr 9, 2020 / 02:00 pm Here is the full text of Pope Francis’ Holy Thursday homily, delivered April 9 at the Basilica of St. Peter. The Eucharist. Service. Anointing. The reality we live today in this liturgy is the Lord who wants to remain with us in the Eucharist. And…
