Bedside care: Rome priest chronicles ministering while sick with Covid-19

Before 19th November, Fr Valerio Bortolotti’s Facebook posts had been the usual updates and reminders about parish activities, formation courses and video-recorded Masses outdoors with lax mask usage among the celebrants. But when he ended up in a hospital that evening with pneumonia caused by Covid-19, he decided to keep his followers aware of his condition... Read More

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December 9, 2020

Say ‘no’ to sin and ‘yes’ to grace, pope says on Immaculate Conception feast

Mary’s Immaculate Conception offers a glimpse to the promised life for all Christians who open their hearts to God and his grace, Pope Francis said. Addressing pilgrims in St Peter’s Square on the feast of the Immaculate Conception, 8th December, the pope said the grace “to be totally free from sin” is a gift from God... Read More

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November 13, 2020

World Day of Poor initiatives adapt to pandemic

Even during a global pandemic, the World Day of the Poor will be an important opportunity for parishes to highlight the importance of charity and spiritual comfort for those in need, said a Vatican official. Although restrictions meant to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus have meant that some initiatives have had to be cancelled... Read More

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October 31, 2020

Italian cardinal-designate got start on Rome’s rough streets

Cardinal-designate Paolo Lojudice’s work in Rome’s rough outskirts earned him such titles as “street priest,” “bishop of the Roma” community, and Pope Francis even told him the word was that he was the toughest bishop in the capital. But the 56-year-old, who now is archbishop of the medieval Tuscan city of Siena, said he is... Read More

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October 19, 2020

Celebrating St John Paul II in photos

A few steps from the Vatican, on the 42nd anniversary of the election of St John Paul II (16th October), a small exhibition opened to celebrate the Polish-born pope, but also a father-daughter team of photographers who helped document his pontificate. Giancarlo Giuliani began covering the Vatican as a photojournalist in 1961; his daughter, Alessia... Read More

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September 14, 2020

Catholic social teaching has values the world needs, says Dominican

Individual rights and freedom obviously are essential for human flourishing, but human happiness depends a lot on relationships — kinship and friendship, but also the broader common good, said Dominican Sister Helen Alford. The 2007-2008 global financial crisis, the climate crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic — “these are some of the results of a too... Read More

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August 26, 2020

German bishops say talks with Rome on parish document must include laity

The German bishops plan to seek talks with the Vatican about its instruction on parish reforms in the Catholic Church. The German Catholic news agency KNA reported the bishops said they want lay Catholics to be involved in the discussion. The bishops’ conference made the announcement after a meeting of its 27-member Permanent Council. The announcement said the president... Read More

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August 11, 2020

Pope baptises twins after successful surgery to separate them

Their heads encased in white bandages covering the wounds where they had been conjoined, two-year-old twins named Ervina and Prefina were baptised by Pope Francis on 6th August in the chapel of his residence. The babies from the Central Africa Republic are still hospitalised at the Vatican-owned Bambino Gesu paediatric hospital in Rome, a spokesman said... Read More

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August 2, 2020

What the new year is set to look like at Rome’s pontifical universities

With online registrations open and classes scheduled to start in early October, many pontifical universities in Rome have been publishing their new safety protocols and procedures on their websites. In an effort to follow recommendations from the Congregation for Catholic Education that instruction be in-person and on campus, universities also needed to take into account... Read More

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August 1, 2020

Rome parishes to lend classroom space to public schools

Public schools in Rome, like elsewhere in the world, are scrambling to ensure the safety of students and staff while also resuming classroom instruction. The Diocese of Rome has offered to help with one big problem: finding enough space to educate students sitting at desks or tables six feet apart. This week, Cardinal Angelo De... Read More

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