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 […]
Topic: Vatican
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 […]
Pope Celebrates Feast of Saint Francis With Pan-Amazonian Representatives
October 4, 2019Currents News Staff To commemorate the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, Pope Francis hosted indigenous representatives from the Amazon region in […]
U.S. Secretary of State Meets Pope, Reaffirming Joint Commitment to Religious Freedom
October 3, 2019By Melissa Butz On the morning of October 3, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, head of U.S. Foreign policy, arrived at […]
U.S. and Holy See Convene, Calling for ‘Defense of Religious Freedom’
October 2, 2019By Melissa Butz The Vatican’s old synod hall hosted a U.S.-Holy See collaborated event to promote religious freedom, entitled “Pathways to Human […]