Tag: Pope Francis
Vatican makes progress on supporting drug availability for kids with HIV
AMSTERDAM (CNS) -- An initiative to identify and properly treat children living with HIV has gained new momentum as international organizations and pharmaceutical companies...
How can human dignity be enhanced through public policy?
WASHINGTON -- Human dignity: It hasn't quite become a campaign issue, but it's coming close.
Former Vice President Joe Biden started it. Speaking July 21...
Faith is a relationship, not a set of rules, pope says...
VATICAN CITY — Doing God’s will means first of all believing in Jesus and allowing love for him to translate into love for one’s...
Diocese of Wilmington tribunal holds annulment information nights
Father Mark Mealey, judicial vicar for the Diocese of Wilmington, will offer annulment information nights at two locations in September.
The first will be Sept....
Catholic death penalty opponents praise pope’s catechism revision
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The Aug. 2 announcement that Pope Francis had ordered a revision of the Catechism of the Catholic Church calling the death...
Pope Francis revises catechism to say death penalty is ‘inadmissible’
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Building on the development of Catholic Church teaching against capital punishment, Pope Francis has ordered a revision of the Catechism...
Accompanying change: Dublin meeting to focus on today’s families
VATICAN CITY — The last time a pope visited Ireland, the Constitution prohibited divorce, gay marriages were unthinkable, abortion was illegal and physical and...
After investigation, Pope Francis accepts resignation of Bishop Pineda
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- After an investigation into alleged irregularities in the Archdiocese of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Pope Francis accepted the resignation of 57-year-old Auxiliary...
Pope adds Italian teenager Nunzio Sulprizio to list of saints
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis added an Italian teenager to the list of people he will formally recognize as saints Oct. 14 during the...
Pope Francis joins funeral services for Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis attended the funeral Mass and presided over the final commendation of Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, the French cardinal who led...