Catholic News
- Press conference offers overview of extraordinary meeting on Amoris Laetitia (CWN)Three speakers at a Vatican press conference (video) discussed the upcoming extraordinary meeting on the tenth anniversary of Amoris Laetitia.
- Tennessee Christian leaders call for commutation of death sentence following botched execution (The Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee)Tennessee’s Catholic bishops, joined by Episcopal Church and Lutheran counterparts, called on Gov. Bill Lee to commute the death sentence of a convicted murderer who survived a botched execution. The bishops said in an earlier statement that “the Church, shepherded by Pope Leo XIV, has restated its opposition to the death penalty as an attack […]
- EU official discusses Ukraine war, Middle East with Pontiff (@kajakallas)Pope Leo XIV received Kaja Kallas, the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and the European Commission’s vice president, in an October 2 audience. “We discussed Russia’s war against Ukraine and the need for a just and lasting peace, the situation in the Middle East and the urgent humanitarian needs, as well […]
- Relics of Holy Crib at Santa Maria Maggiore to be placed closer to the faithful (Vatican News)The relics of the Holy Crib in the Papal Basilica of Saint Mary Major will be temporarily moved to a side chapel closer to the faithful, during the restoration of the reliquary and niche in which the relics are normally placed. The relics—five thin pieces of sycamore wood—will return to their normal location on Christmas […]