Catholic News
- Bombs, machine gun fire draw closer to Gaza's Catholic parish (L'Osservatore Romano (Italian))Writing “from the parish of the Holy Family in a Gaza that is now totally destroyed,” a young local Catholic said that “every day and every night, we continue to hear the terrifying noise of bombs and the crackle of machine guns.” “They are ever closer to us,” said Suhail Abo Dawood. “And inevitably, fragments […]
- Look at world from children's perspective, Vatican spokesman counsels (Vatican News)Alessandro Gisotti, a vice director of the Editorial Directorate of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Communication, has written an article, “Pope Leo XIV and a world in the measure of children,” to mark the two-month anniversary of the Pontiff’s election. Recalling a photograph of Pope Leo with a child, Gisotti mused: Why is this image so […]
- French-Iranian author pens front-page Gospel commentary for L'Osservatore Romano (CWN)The Vatican newspaper has published a front-page commentary on the parable of the Good Samaritan by Lila Azam Zanganeh, a French author whose parents were exiles from Iran.
- Nickel mining threatens Philippine island's ecosystem, Vatican newspaper warns (CWN)L’Osservatore Romano devoted the most prominent front-page coverage in its July 8 edition to the “deforestation, heavy metal contamination, and health problems” that are “the main effects of nickel mining” on the Philippine island of Palawan.