Pope Francis gives a blessing to pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square during his general audience on Wednesday, June 19, 2024. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Jul 9, 2024 / 13:56 pm (CNA). Pope Francis was spotted visiting his optometrist near the Spanish Steps on Monday afternoon. According to Italian newspaper Il Messaggero, the…
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Editor’s note: follow Synod Watch for analysis of the upcoming Synod on Synodality in Rome this fall. In his new article “Pope Francis Disappoints Progressives. He Will Do So Again,” Fr. Thomas Reese describes a source of frustration for some papal supporters: the slow pace of change in certain areas of the Church. From the…
null / Credit: vectorfusionart/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Jul 9, 2024 / 11:45 am (CNA). The Republican Party’s 2024 platform has notably softened the party’s stance on marriage, pulling back from earlier language that affirmed the traditional definition of marriage and denounced the Supreme Court’s earlier rulings on the matter. In its 2016 platform, the GOP had…
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Before excommunicating Viganò, the Vatican holds hands for a photo op with the German bishops. As many readers are well aware, the event of Vatican II was accurately described by Fr. Ralph Wiltgen as the “Rhine flowing into the Tiber.” Indeed, one Vatican insider told me this: So since Vatican II, we’ve had a curious…
Members of the civil society organization Actívate (Get Active) celebrated the appointment of new judges to the InterAmerican Court of Human Rights, especially highlighting the election of Peruvian Alberto Borea and Paraguayan Diego Moreno “for not being promoters of abortion.” / Credit: Actívate ACI Prensa Staff, Jul 9, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA). The 54th…
Roberto Corbella (center, with tie) and other family and friends of Chiara Corbella Petrillo attend the closing of the diocesan phase of the investigation into her life and virtues in Rome on Friday, June 21, 2024 / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA Vatican City, Jul 9, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA). Last month, the Diocese of Rome…
Bishops process into St. Peter’s Basilica for the closing Mass of the first assembly of the Synod on Synodality on Oct. 29, 2023. / Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, Jul 9, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA). The guiding document for the final part of the Synod on Synodality, published Tuesday, focuses on how to implement certain…
Our Lady of Christendom is an annual pilgrimage to the shrine of Our Lady of Covadonga (Asturias) that takes place around the feast of St. James the Apostle (July 25), patron saint of Spain. / Credit: Our Lady of Christendom Pilgrimage ACI Prensa Staff, Jul 9, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA). The Vatican has prohibited…
