Pope Francis

Métis Nation of Ontario Region 4 Councillor Mitch Case will travel to Vatican as part of Indigenous delegation later this week Métis Nation of Ontario Region 4 Councillor Mitch Case will be part of a delegation representing the Métis National Council, Assembly of First Nations and Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami that…

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — War in Ukraine might have set back the clock on Vatican relations with the Russian Orthodox Church, but according to one expert on Catholic relations with Eastern churches a meeting between Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, originally…

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Diversity, communion and evangelization are at the heart of Pope Francis’ new apostolic constitution, “Praedicate Evangelium” or “Preach the Gospel,” enshrining the pope’s central principles in a long-sought reform of the Vatican bureaucracy, known as the Curia. The long-awaited document was published with relatively little warning…

It was an emotional Sunday mass at Sacred Heart Catholic Church of the First Peoples in Edmonton. “We will pray for the success of our delegation and the well-being of all who are going,” one parishioner said in a  prayer. The Edmonton church is a national parish for First Nations,…

Author of the article: VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis on Sunday called the conflict in Ukraine an unjustified “senseless massacre” and asked leaders to stop “this repugnant war.” “The violent aggression against Ukraine is unfortunately not slowing down,” he told tens of thousands of people in St. Peter’s Square for…

Even if you’re not a Christian you probably know about baptism. Baptism, for every denomination, is the entrance point into Christianity. As Pope Francis said last September, the day of our baptism “is the day on which we were saved, it is the day on which we became children of…

By Guardian Nigeria 19 March 2022   |   6:14 pm Pope Francis on Saturday visited Ukrainian children who have fled the Russian invasion and are being cared for at the Vatican's paediatric hospital in Rome. This photo taken and handout on March 19, 2022 by The Vatican Media shows…

A new Vatican constitution opens the way for women to run some offices at the Catholic Church’s universal headquarters that have always been run by men...Read More

Published March 20, 2022 12:55am Pope Francis on Saturday followed through on a promise made ahead of his 2013 election and published a much-anticipated shake-up of the Vatican's powerful governing body. The new constitution, which comes into effect on June 5, restructures parts of the unruly Roman Curia, and makes…

Author of the article: Pope Francis greets nuns after the weekly general audience at the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican, January 19, 2022. Photo by Yara Nardi /REUTERS VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis on Saturday introduced a landmark change allowing any baptized lay Catholic, male or female, to…