Catholic News
- Cardinal Tagle elected Dean of College of Cardinals (Vatican News)Pope Leo XIV approved the election of Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, 69, one of the two pro-prefects of the Dicastery for Evangelization, as dean of the College of Cardinals. Cardinal Tagle succeeds Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, 92, the prefect emeritus of the Congregation for Bishops, who resigned from the position. As dean of the College […]
- Pope Leo, International Red Cross president discuss respect for international humanitarian law (International Committee of the Red Cross)The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross discussed respect for international humanitarian law during an October 9 audience with Pope Leo XIV. “More war, combined with less respect for international humanitarian law, risks putting humanity on a very dangerous path,” Mirjana Spoljaric Egger said after the audience. “The way wars are fought […]
- Amoris Laetitia meeting, October 9: prelates discuss young people and the discovery of the vocation to marriage (CWN)On October 9—the second full day of the weeklong extraordinary Vatican meeting devoted to Amoris Laetitia—the presidents of the world’s episcopal conferences and the heads of the Eastern Catholic churches discussed the second of the meeting’s five themes: “young people and the discovery of the vocation to marriage: listening to young people and accompanying them […]
- Vatican diplomat: 'The first right of the child is to be born in a real family' (Holy See Mission)Citing the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church, a leading Vatican diplomat said that “the first right of the child is ‘to be born in a real family,’ a right that has not always been respected and that today is subject to new violations because of developments in genetic technology.” Archbishop Christophe-Zakhia El-Kassis, […]