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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See Joe Donnelly will leave his post in July, the embassy announced. The ambassador will step down from his role and return to his native Indiana on July 8, the U.S. Embassy to the Holy See said in a post on X published May 30. “It…
ROME (CNS) — The first years of priesthood are challenging, and the best way to survive and thrive is through closeness to God, to one’s bishop, one’s fellow priests and to one’s parishioners, Pope Francis told priests who have been ordained less than 10 years. “One never comes out of a crisis alone,” the pope…
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The social and political problems plaguing modern society can be resolved only by allowing the Holy Spirit to heal humanity’s inner turmoil, Pope Francis said. “Around us, we can say there is external chaos, social chaos, political chaos. We think of wars, we think of so many children who do not…
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Secretariat of Child and Youth Protection has released the 2023 Annual Report – Findings and Recommendations on the Implementation of the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People. The report is based on the audit findings of StoneBridge Business Partners, a specialty consulting firm headquartered in…
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis “never intended to offend or express himself in homophobic terms, and he extends his apologies to those who were offended by the use of a term, reported by others,” that is considered vulgar in Italian, the Vatican press office said. Six days after Pope Francis had a closed-door meeting…
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Always pray, and pray especially for an end to all wars, Pope Francis told children during Mass concluding the first World Children’s Day. “We are here to pray, to pray together and to pray to God,” the father, who created the world, to his son, Jesus, who saved humanity, and to…