Catholic News

• Pope hails Lampedusa's hospitality to migrants, calls for 'culture of reconcilation' (Vatican Press Office)
  In a video message to the faithful of Lampedusa, Pope Leo XIV praised the islanders’ hospitality to migrants and recalled Pope Francis’s 2013 apostolic journey there. “Just as Pope Francis opposed the globalization of indifference with the culture of encounter, so today I would like for us, together, to begin to oppose the globalization of […]
• Cardinal Tagle: We have lost the sense of creation as God's gift (L'Osservatore Romano (Italian))
  Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, one of the two pro-prefects of the Dicastery for Evangelization, told participants in a Vatican conference, that “with dismay and fear, I note that the horizon of gift is slowly blurring.” “It is being replaced by the horizon of productivity, success, meritocracy, and profit, which in itself is not negative, but […]
• Cardinal Parolin hopes for 'new perspective on a new world' (Vatican News (Italian))
  Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Secretary of State of His Holiness, encouraged participants in a Vatican conference to work to build a different planet. In his keynote address to the Pontifical Academy of Theology’s conference on “Creation, Nature, Environment for a World of Peace,” Cardinal Parolin said that “the current worrying historical context is, unfortunately, characterized […]
• Be builders of bridges, Pope says during conversation with new bishops (Vatican News)
  Following his September 11 address to 192 recently ordained bishops, Pope Leo XIV fielded questions. The Vatican published a summary of the Pope’s answers the following day. Synodality is “a style of Church, of listening and of a common search for the mission to which we are called,” Pope Leo said, as he advised bishops […]