ITALY A Catholic parish’s statue of a saint, that was on display in the church for two decades, recently appeared to be crying. A parishioner of Santa Maria delle Grazie in the town of Casalba noticed the statue of St. Padre Pio with a red-colored tear, resembling blood, which looked like it was falling from…
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new video loaded: Pope Leo Says News Outlets Misunderstood Recent Remarks as Trump Criticism transcript Back transcript Pope Leo Says News Outlets Misunderstood Recent Remarks as Trump Criticism Pope Leo XIV said that news outlets misinterpreted his recent remarks as criticism of President Trump. The pontiff has called for an end to the violence in…
new video loaded: Pope Leo Visits Mideast on First Foreign Trip as Pontiff transcript Back transcript Pope Leo Visits Mideast on First Foreign Trip as Pontiff Pope Leo XIV landed in Muslim-majority Turkey on Thursday, beginning the first international trip of his papacy. The voyage is aimed at promoting interfaith dialogue and cooperation between Christian…
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV on Saturday bestowed one of the Catholic Church’s highest honors on St. John Henry Newman, the deeply influential 19th- century British convert and theologian, declaring him a doctor of the church and holding him up as a model for Catholic educators. Only 37 other people have been given…
For the first time since being elected in May, Pope Leo XIV waded into U.S. politics Tuesday, criticizing those who say they’re against abortion but support the death penalty, saying that’s “not really pro-life.” Leo, a Chicago native, was asked late Tuesday about plans by Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich to give a lifetime achievement award to Illinois…
ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV has intervened for the first time in an abortion dispute roiling the U.S. Catholic Church, raising the seeming contradiction over what it really means to be “pro-life.” Leo, a Chicago native, was asked late Tuesday about plans by Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich to give a lifetime achievement award to…
How do you improve on a sacred space? That was artist Adam Cvijanovic’s assignment when he was approached early last year: a mural for St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City. “The Catholic Church hasn’t done a significant piece of art like this in a long, long time,” he said. But Cvijanovic’s commission made him…
Top church leaders in Jerusalem have travelled to Gaza in a rare solidarity visit to the territory one day after an Israeli shell slammed into its only Catholic church, killing three people. The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Pierbattista Pizzaballa, and Greek Orthodox Patriarch Theophilos III entered Gaza on Friday morning to express the “shared pastoral…
(refiles to amend client identifier) GAZA (Reuters) -Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the highest ranking Catholic official in Jerusalem, entered Gaza on Friday to bring humanitarian aid and comfort to victims of Israel’s strike on the sole Catholic church of the Palestinian enclave. Three people died and several were injured in the strike on the Holy Family…