Category: International News

After months of protracted fighting, violence in Sudan continues to spread across the country, causing millions to flee their homes. 

In anticipation of the Catholic Church’s 2025 Jubilee Year, the city of Rome has announced a major infrastructure project that will create a pedestrian pathway from St Peter’s Square to Castel Sant’Angelo. Construction began in August.

In an unexpected and highly significant move, Pope Francis has appointed the Argentine theologian and archbishop Victor Manuel ‘Tucho’ Fernández as the new prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican has announced.

In a surprise announcement, Pope Francis announced that he will hold a consistory on 30 September 2023 to create 21 new cardinals, 18 of them electors with the right to vote in the next conclave.

Catholic universities must not recoil from the daunting risks of artificial intelligence but become proactively involved in its ethical development, says the head of the Vatican Dicastery for Culture and Education. 

The little boy who managed to get past the crowd control barrier at World Youth Day in Rio de Janeiro in 2013 to hug Pope Francis is now a seminarian preparing for the priesthood.

US Bishops’ International Justice and Peace Chairman, Bishop David Malloy, has expressed public concern regarding President Joe Biden’s decision to supply Ukraine with cluster bombs for use against Russian forces.

Br Alois Löser, prior of the Taizé Community for the past nearly two decades, has announced he is stepping down as leader of the world-renowned ecumenical monastery in France that was founded by the late Brother Roger Schutz.

Renee Kohler-Ryan says that as a lay theologian and mother of five, she was struck by the significance of her inclusion in the upcoming Synod of Bishops. 

Pope Francis has said there is no apparent end in sight to the Ukraine war as his peace envoy, Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, wrapped up three days of talks in Moscow.