Catholic News
- Opus Dei leader meets with Pontiff; revised statutes being studied (Opus Dei)Pope Leo XIV received Msgr. Fernando Ocáriz Braña, moderator of the Prelature of Opus Dei, on February 16. The prelature submitted revised statutes to the Holy See last year, following Pope Francis’s earlier transfer of the prelature to the purview of the Dicastery for the Clergy. Pope Leo “said that the process of updating Opus […]
- Fresno bishop celebrates Mass in ICE detention center (KERO-TV )Bishop Joseph Brennan of Fresno, California, celebrated Mass on February 16 in the state’s largest US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility. Seventy detainees attended the Mass. “These are my people,” Bishop Brennan said. “I need to be there, they need that presence and I want to accompany them.” “They’re hurting, they’re looking for […]
- Harvard professor named to pontifical academy (Vatican Press Office)Pope Leo XIV has named Professor Tyler VanderWeele, professor of epidemiology at Harvard University, as a member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. Dr. VanderWeele is also director of the Human Flourishing Program and do-director of the Initiative on Health, Spirituality, and Religion at Harvard University. His “empirical research spans psychiatric and social epidemiology; […]
- Cabo Verde cardinal retires; successor named (Vatican Press Office)Pope Leo XIV accepted the resignation of Cardinal Arlindo Gomes Furtado, 76, from the office of bishop of Santiago de Cabo Verde. Ordained a bishop in 2004 and appointed to the see in 2009, he was named a cardinal by Pope Francis in 2015. Pope Leo named Bishop Teodoro Mendes Tavares, C.S.Sp., of Ponta de […]