12+ hour, 30+ min ago  (209+ words) Forty-five years after the assassination attempt on St John Paul II, Pope Leo XIV paused in St Peter's Square on 13 May to pray at the spot where the Polish pontiff was shot in 1981. The attack, carried out by Turkish gunman…...

10+ hour, 10+ min ago  (457+ words) Archbishop'Anthony'Randazzo celebrated his last Mass as Apostolic Administrator of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross on Sunday as he prepares to take up his new ministry as Prefect of the Dicastery of Legislative Texts at the…...

9+ hour, 29+ min ago  (830+ words) The Catholic Weekly Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP: Acts of mercy towards others This is the edited text of the homily given by Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP for the Mass of the fourth Sunday of Easter Year A for Consecrated Life…...

10+ hour, 32+ min ago  (644+ words) Our journey took us through sacred places across Italy, Portugal and Spain, beginning in the heart of the church at the Vatican. Standing inside St Peter's Basilica, surrounded by the resting places of past popes, we were reminded of the…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago  (316+ words) Named after Liberal Party Deputy Prime Minister from 1996-1999, the oration honours Fischer's strong Catholic faith and civic convictions." This year's speakeris Dr Mary Healy, a biblical scholarwho has served as a member of the Pontifical Biblical Commission, which is an…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago  (780+ words) Dialogue between the Vatican and German bishops regarding the blessing of same-sex unions is ongoing, and it was too soon to talk about sanctions, said the Vatican secretary of state. Speaking to journalists in Rome 6 May, Cardinal Pietro Parolin was…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago  (621+ words) A Texas-based bishop, who leads one of the'Catholic'Church's three "Anglican ordinariates," has seen his pastoral care expanded to Australia, as a fellow prelate has been tapped to lead a Vatican dicastery. On 11 May, Pope Leo XIV named Bishop Steven J. Lopes…...

6+ day, 11+ hour ago  (647+ words) Ahead of the first anniversary of his election to the chair of St Peter, it was announced that Pope Leo XIV is officially expected to visit France in late September, the French bishops" conference confirmed 6 May. During the visit, French…...

6+ day, 7+ hour ago  (424+ words) Thirty-five years ago, Pope John Paul II issued his most developed social encyclical, Centesimus Annus. Its title signalled the author's intention to honour the centenary of Leo XIII's 1891 encyclical, Rerum Novarum, which launched the modern papal social magisterium. Centesimus Annus…...

1+ week, 10+ hour ago  (677+ words) When I got married, I'didn't'know how I was going to cook 365 meals in a year with a portfolio of four meals under my sleeve.' Almost ten years later, I can confidently say that my portfolio has noticeably increased "though that'doesn't'mean…...