News from the Vatican

In the Afterword of “The weaving of the world,” Pope Francis highlights the importance of storytelling as the weaving of a fabric with unbreakable threads that links the past and present, everything and everyone. The new book is published on Thursday by the Vatican Publishing House and Salani Publications.

A delegation of Buddhists from Mongolia pays its first official visit to the Vatican 30 years after the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Holy See and the Mongolian government. An interview with the head of the Apostolic Prefecture of Ulaanbaatar highlights a positive and collaborative relationship.

As a "first choice," members of the Italian bishops' conference decided to focus their study of clerical sexual abuse in the country on cases reported to the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith from 2000 to 2021.

Speaking about the need to welcome, accompany, promote, and integrate migrants when they arrive in a new country, Pope Francis said that when it comes to the United States, “a people of migrants,” the Irish brought the whiskey and the Italians brought the mafia.

As the Italian bishops’ conference debates this week how to best address the clerical sexual abuse crisis and the calls for a nationwide investigation, Cardinal Sean O’Malley of Boston, head of the papal commission for the protection of children, told them that the only way forward is with the truth.

Pope Francis, in connection with international shrines worldwide, will lead a Rosary for peace from the Basilica of St. Mary Major on 31 May for those suffering the ongoing war in Ukraine and other wars around the world.

In a videomessage for the Plenary Assembly of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America, Pope Francis reflects on the meaning of synodality and communion, insisting both are necessary as the Church embarks on the synodal journey.

World Communications Day to be observed on Sunday focuses on the theme of listening and emphasises the urgency of putting the person at the centre of information. As Pope Francis emphasised, there is "no good journalism without the ability to listen'." This is all the more evident during the pandemic and now as the tragic war wages on in Ukraine.

“My heart is shattered for the school tragedy in Texas,” Francis said at the end of his Audience on Wednesday. “I pray for the children and adults killed and their families.”

Working with migrants "is not charity work," giving them a bit of aid and then "leaving them there," the pope said. "No. It's taking them and integrating them with education, with job placement, with all these things," the pope said May 25 during a meeting with representatives of the Global Solidarity Fund.

Hundreds of notable scientists have been Catholic -- lay, religious and priests, according to lists compiled on Wikipedia.

By an order of magnitude, the most public position in the Catholic Church, and certainly the one with the greatest responsibility, is the papacy.

The East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline would be the world’s longest heated oil pipeline. But the International Energy Agency has already called for no new fossil-fuel projects. Activists, including Vanessa Nakate, recently visited Pope Francis and received his full support ahead of Laudato si’ Week.

Marking the seventh anniversary of the encyclical Laudato si', we look at what fruits it has yielded so far and at how Pope Francis' prophetic words have set processes into motion in every field referred to by the text. It has challenged leaders as well as children, and transformed an “urgency” into a “habit”: caring for our Common Home and for all of its creatures.

Pope Francis held a closed-door, two-hour meeting with members of the Italian bishops' conference late May 23 as the bishops were preparing for new leadership and for a discussion on authorizing a study into clerical sexual abuse in the country.

Returning from a visit to Ukraine, Polish Archbishop Stanislaw Gadecki acknowledged that the Vatican knew Christians were fighting on both sides of the war, and the Vatican normally does not point to an aggressor.

An academic conference taking place in Rome on 26-28 May looks at the history of the Roman Curia, with the aim of providing “a broad historical overview that will offer a window into the lived history of the central administration of the Catholic Church. In this interview with Vatican Radio, Dr Donald Prudlo looks discusses the history of the Roman Curia and its relevance today.

Among the first private audiences this Monday morning, Pope Francis met with the President of the Government of the Republic of North Macedonia, Dimitar Kovachevski.

On Monday morning Pope Francis met with the Prime Minister Kiril Petkov of Bulgaria in a private audience at the Vatican.

In the Afterword of “The weaving of the world,” Pope Francis highlights the importance of storytelling as the weaving of a fabric with unbreakable threads that links the past and present, everything and everyone. The new book is published on Thursday by the Vatican Publishing House and Salani Publications.

A delegation of Buddhists from Mongolia pays its first official visit to the Vatican 30 years after the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Holy See and the Mongolian government. An interview with the head of the Apostolic Prefecture of Ulaanbaatar highlights a positive and collaborative relationship.

As a "first choice," members of the Italian bishops' conference decided to focus their study of clerical sexual abuse in the country on cases reported to the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith from 2000 to 2021.

Speaking about the need to welcome, accompany, promote, and integrate migrants when they arrive in a new country, Pope Francis said that when it comes to the United States, “a people of migrants,” the Irish brought the whiskey and the Italians brought the mafia.

As the Italian bishops’ conference debates this week how to best address the clerical sexual abuse crisis and the calls for a nationwide investigation, Cardinal Sean O’Malley of Boston, head of the papal commission for the protection of children, told them that the only way forward is with the truth.

Pope Francis, in connection with international shrines worldwide, will lead a Rosary for peace from the Basilica of St. Mary Major on 31 May for those suffering the ongoing war in Ukraine and other wars around the world.

In a videomessage for the Plenary Assembly of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America, Pope Francis reflects on the meaning of synodality and communion, insisting both are necessary as the Church embarks on the synodal journey.

World Communications Day to be observed on Sunday focuses on the theme of listening and emphasises the urgency of putting the person at the centre of information. As Pope Francis emphasised, there is "no good journalism without the ability to listen'." This is all the more evident during the pandemic and now as the tragic war wages on in Ukraine.

“My heart is shattered for the school tragedy in Texas,” Francis said at the end of his Audience on Wednesday. “I pray for the children and adults killed and their families.”

Working with migrants "is not charity work," giving them a bit of aid and then "leaving them there," the pope said. "No. It's taking them and integrating them with education, with job placement, with all these things," the pope said May 25 during a meeting with representatives of the Global Solidarity Fund.

Hundreds of notable scientists have been Catholic -- lay, religious and priests, according to lists compiled on Wikipedia.

By an order of magnitude, the most public position in the Catholic Church, and certainly the one with the greatest responsibility, is the papacy.

The East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline would be the world’s longest heated oil pipeline. But the International Energy Agency has already called for no new fossil-fuel projects. Activists, including Vanessa Nakate, recently visited Pope Francis and received his full support ahead of Laudato si’ Week.

Marking the seventh anniversary of the encyclical Laudato si', we look at what fruits it has yielded so far and at how Pope Francis' prophetic words have set processes into motion in every field referred to by the text. It has challenged leaders as well as children, and transformed an “urgency” into a “habit”: caring for our Common Home and for all of its creatures.

Pope Francis held a closed-door, two-hour meeting with members of the Italian bishops' conference late May 23 as the bishops were preparing for new leadership and for a discussion on authorizing a study into clerical sexual abuse in the country.

Returning from a visit to Ukraine, Polish Archbishop Stanislaw Gadecki acknowledged that the Vatican knew Christians were fighting on both sides of the war, and the Vatican normally does not point to an aggressor.