Daejeon, South Korea, Aug 15, 2014 / 04:50 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Addressing the division between North and South Korea, Pope Francis emphasized that the two are “one family,” calling for prayers of re-unification while stressing repentance and forgiveness. “There is only one Korea, but this family is divided,” the Pope said to a large...
http://vimeo.com/80947234 If you would prefer to read the text of Bishop Fellay's interview, rather than view the video, click here. There are people who believe that the way to end the crisis in the Church is to improve Catholic schools. Others want a reform of the reformed liturgy - to make it, in other words, a...
Pope Francis is back at the Vatican after a whirlwind World Youth Day celebration in Brazil. Not a single doctrine of the Catholic church was altered during this event. Frankly, there seems little likelihood there will be change to any Catholic doctrine in the foreseeable future. Pope Francis even made clear that there will...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0wKgl0-6Gw4 Describing the terminal decline of the Church in the USA (which really mirrors the decline of the Church just about everywhere else) Michael Voris manages to assess and lament the situation there without any reference to Fatima. He sees no "bright spots" - not even one: he cites the "bad stats" to illustrate his point, but...
Pope Francis 'snubs' pomp and ceremony of Vatican Beethoven concert Pope Francis failed to show up at a Vatican concert crowded with cardinals at the weekend, an absence seen as the latest example of his dislike for the Holy See's tradition of pomp and ceremony. Read more Reading the latest batch of UK Catholic papers,...
There's allegedly a secretive "gay lobby" that wields massive behind-the-scenes influence at the Vatican. Pope Francis himself appears to have confirmed it, during what was intented to be a private conversation with a delegation of Latin American religious orders. His words somehow got leaked, and although his visitors apologised, his press office hasn't denied that...
The Vatican will appoint a wave of new bishops to dioceses in Scotland in the coming months, the papal nuncio has told clergy. Following Pope Francis' acceptance of the resignation of the Bishop of Motherwell, half of Scotland's eight dioceses are without bishops. Archbishop Antonio Mennini, the Apostolic Nuncio to Great Britain, met with clergy from...
Blessed John XXIII - Part 2: Pope of surprises... (Vatican Radio) Blessed John XXIII, born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli died exactly 50 years ago on the 3rd of June 1963, two months after the completion of his well- known encyclical ‘Pacem in Terris’. Pope John, now blessed, was elected to the See of Peter on the...
