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(RNS) — As the U.S. Catholic bishops conduct their semiannual meeting virtually this week, the big question is whether they will approve a proposal to create a teaching document on the Eucharist that would deny the sacrament to politicians who support pro-choice policies. No one doubts that the proposal is…

Pope Francis last Friday appointed Lazarus You Heung-sik, the archbishop of Daejeon, as prefect of the Vatican's Congregation for the Clergy. This is the first time a Korean priest has been appointed to a senior position in the Vatican and comes on the bicentennial of the birth of Korea's only…

Updated 2 days ago · Published on 12 May 2021 11:00PM · Pope Francis delivering his weekly general audience in public for the first time in six months in the San Damaso Courtyard at the Vatican. – EPA pic, May 12, 2021. POPE Francis expressed his pleasure today at being…

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In a measure aimed at promoting the work of lay people in the Catholic Church, Pope Francis instituted a new ministry of catechists on Tuesday (May 11), open to lay Catholics, men and women to serve the church by transmitting the faith.  While the role of…

(RNS) — When U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai announced Wednesday (May 5) that the White House would back efforts to suspend intellectual property rights for COVID-19 vaccines, it was a victory for Vatican officials and U.S. Catholic groups that had long supported loosening vaccine patents to help expand production of the…

ROME — Pope Francis called for universal access to coronavirus vaccines and “the temporary suspension of intellectual property rights” Saturday. “God the Creator instills in our hearts a new and generous spirit to abandon our individualisms and promote the common good,” the pope told participants in the VAX LIVE concert, “a…

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The Enugu-based Spiritual Director of Adoration Ministry, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka, was reported recently to have gone 'missing'. He later re-emerged to tell the story of his whereabout. The Enugu Catholic Bishop, Callistus Onaga, had 'arrested' Mbaka and kept him incommunicado reportedly for some days. And that led to some riot by…

Published: 9:21pm, 8 May, 2021 Updated: 9:21pm, 8 May, 2021 Read More

Pope Francis holds a weekly general audience in the library of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican, April 28, 2021. Vatican Media/?Handout via REUTERS Pope Francis on Saturday supported waiving intellectual property rights for COVID-19 vaccines, backing a proposal by U.S. President Joe Biden that has been rebuffed by some…