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An initiative that works to highlight persecution of Christians released Friday a video seeking prayers for Sister Gloria Cecilia Nárvaez Argoti, a missionary who was abducted in Mali in February 2017.
The actor who plays Jesus in the internet series “The Chosen” met Pope Francis on Wednesday, fulfilling a lifelong dream as he visits Rome this week to view pilgrimage sites related to the Gospels.
Pope Francis made an unknown phone call at the end of his weekly general audience on Wednesday.
Italian police announced Monday that the sender of the letter addressed to Pope Francis containing three bullets has been identified.
A 40-year-old Rwandan immigrant already suspected of starting a devastating fire at a French cathedral was questioned by police in connection with the murder of a Catholic priest on Monday in western France.
The letter was addressed to "The Pope, Vatican City, St. Peter's Square in Rome."
The 60-year-old priest was a popular leader of retreats.
Gérald Darmanin wrote: “All my support to the Catholics of our country after the dramatic murder of a priest in Vendée.”
‘God became man for me, for you, for all of us, to enter into our lives,’ the pope said.
Anti-clerical revolutionaries expelled the Benedictines in 1790.
It was the pope’s first general audience since he underwent colon surgery.
In an accompanying video, the pope said that the Church ‘always is in crisis, because she’s alive.’
The pope said that Catholics were called to leave behind self-interest.
Mother Mary Paschal has been elected the newest abbess of Our Lady of the Angels Monastery in Hanceville, Alabama, filling the role once held by EWTN foundress Mother Angelica.
Former cardinal Theodore McCarrick now faces a fifth civil sex abuse lawsuit in New Jersey, after he was criminally charged in a Massachusetts district court this week for sexually assaulting a teenage boy.
The 76-year-old cardinal's urological surgery was performed with the help of the da Vinci robot.
Former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has reportedly been charged with sexual assault of a teenage boy, a crime alleged to have occurred in the 1970s.
The image was created by the Slovenian Jesuit Fr. Marko Ivan Rupnik.
Angelo Cardinal Becciu was present Tuesday, July 27, the first day of a major Vatican finance trial to defend himself of charges of embezzlement and abuse of office. He is one of 10 defendants in the Vatican’s largest trial for financial crimes in modern times.
The pope called for a “new mindset” in the battle against malnutrition.