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Various Vatican sources told CNA that a recent report by a traditionalist blog claiming that Cardinal Peter Turkson was set to resign at prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development is "credible."
The explanatory document, which bans confirmations and ordinations according to pre-Vatican II Roman Missals, was published Dec. 18 with Pope Francis’ approval.
The group of about ten refugees are being supported directly by Pope Francis.
The pope told new ambassadors that the ongoing pandemic is a reminder that “we are a global community where one person’s problems are the problems of all.”
‘We have to get used to humiliation,’ the pope told Jesuits in Greece.
The new body will foster spirituality, art, formation, and dialogue in the environs of St. Peter’s Basilica
The pope appealed for prayers for Haiti at his general audience.
St. Mary Major is one of four papal major basilicas in Rome.
The Vatican has published Pope Francis’ Christmas schedule for this year.
Pope Francis created the instituted lay ministry of catechist in May.
The miracle attributed to Rivier, who can now be canonized as a saint in the Catholic Church, involved the healing of a newborn baby in the Philippines in 2015.
The pope looked ahead to the Jubilee of Guadalupe in 2031.
The pope said that society ‘systematically excludes those without a voice.’
He was speaking to members of the Vatican department overseeing consecrated life.
Sacramental confession has healing abilities that priests should especially emphasize to help bring God’s love and consolation to a world damaged by two years of the coronavirus pandemic. That is the advice for confessors from Cardinal Mauro Piacenza, who stressed the urgency of their work for humanity.
The Vatican’s 2021 nativity scene was unveiled in St. Peter’s Square.
The pope leads the Angelus prayer on Marian solemnities, as well as Sundays.
The norms address the delicts of schism, sacramental desecration, and abuse of minors
Pope Francis visited the Mavrovouni migrant reception and identification center located along the shore of the island of Lesbos,
As a sign of Pope Francis’ concern for migrants, the Vatican has announced that it is helping to arrange the transfer of refugees from Cyprus to Italy, among them, two Christians who fled the Central African nation of Cameroon.