Vatican official: Pope is ‘trying to disconnect the leadership role from ordination’ (Wall Street Journal)
The Wall Street Journal has interviewed Sister Nathalie Becquart, XMCJ. In February, Pope Francis named her an Undersecretary of the Synod of Bishops. “What Pope Francis is doing here at the Vatican . . . is trying to disconnect the leadership role from ordination,” she said, as she commented on the appointment of religious sisters […]
Scottish bishops postpone restoration of Sunday Mass obligation (Scottish Catholic Media Office)
“At the beginning of Advent the bishops of Scotland looked forward to welcoming the faithful back to Holy Mass and anticipated that the restoration of the Sunday Obligation might be possible as we begin the New Year,” the Bishops’ Conference of Scotland said in a statement released on December 23. “Sadly, there has been a […]
Responding to papal appeal, Poland’s bishops pledge assistance to migrants (Polish Bishops’ Conference)
On December 22, Pope Francis appealed to European political leaders to join nations like Cyprus and Greece in assisting migrants. “The Church in Poland supports the Pope’s appeal,” said Archbishop Stanislaw Gadecki of Poznan, who leads the Polish Bishops’ Conference. “We are ready to help, in accordance with the existing legal possibilities and with the […]
Vatican spokesman: Pope is calling Curia to synodal conversion and humility (Vatican News)
Andrea Tornielli, editorial director of the Dicastery for Communication, has published a commentary on Pope Francis’s Christmas greetings to the Roman Curia (CWN coverage, full text). “At first glance it might almost seem paradoxical: even the Roman Curia, which by its very nature is — or should be — collegial, and which exists not as […]
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Give your life completely to Christ this Christmas
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Christ became man so there might be hope for the worst of sinners
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