Controversial Amazon Statue Stolen From Church, Thrown in Rome’s Tiber River
October 21, 2019By Melissa Butz and Christopher White, The Tablet’s National Correspondent ROME — A wood carving statue of a naked pregnant woman that […]
Topic: Vatican
Fr. James Martin: Pope Was ‘Attentive, Welcoming and Warm’ During Meeting
October 17, 2019By Inés San Martín ROME (Crux) — On September 30, Pope Francis met with Jesuit Father James Martin, an American priest who […]
Pope Francis Appeals for Peace in Syria, Ecuador
October 14, 2019By Melissa Butz As Turkey continues its military operation against Kurdish fighters in Syria, Pope Francis used the canonization of five saints […]
Women Religious Speak Out on Voting in Amazon Synod
October 11, 2019By Melissa Butz Inside the meeting hall for the Synod on the Amazon, there are 35 women participants in various roles. At […]
Pope Francis to Canonize Five New Saints
October 11, 2019By Melissa Butz Tapestries of the faces of the five new saints Pope Francis will name on Oct. 13 now adorn the […]
Indigenous Peoples Honor the Blessed Mother as a Symbol of the Amazon
October 10, 2019By Melissa Butz Before the Amazon Synod even began, one wooden figure had been the cause of questions and even controversy. Amongst […]
Bishop, Amazon Synod Council Members Advocate for Married Priests
October 9, 2019By Melissa Butz Bishop Erwin Krautler has been a missionary in Brazil for the past 55 years and is one of the […]
Vatican’s Choice of Bishop DiMarzio in Buffalo a ‘Sign of Trust’: Archbishop Pierre
October 8, 2019By Jorge I. Dominguez-Lopez CARROLL GARDENS — Archbishop Christophe Pierre, the papal nuncio to the United States, said that Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio […]
Chair of Pope’s Amazon Summit Puts Married Priests, Women Squarely on the Table
October 7, 2019By John L. Allen ROME – (Crux) Not wasting any time, the chairman of Pope Francis’s Synod of Bishops on the Amazon […]
Pope Asks Bishops to Embrace Openness, ‘Fire’ of the Holy Spirit at Amazon Synod
October 7, 2019By Melissa Butz The beginning of the long-awaited Synod on the Amazon occurred at the Vatican in a very symbolic place. Right […]
