Reflections on life, meaning and purpose

Pope who’s a ‘slow food’ advocate meets with CEO of fast food empire

ROME –Pope Francis, a staunch critic of food waste who has published an entire interview book dedicated to the so-called “slow food” movement, yet whose Vatican actually owns a McDonald’s restaurant, held a private meeting Monday with the president of the fast-food chain. When the pope’s list of daily appointments was issued Monday morning, of […]

Cardinal Zuppi arrives in Ukraine to begin work as Vatican peace envoy

Cardinal Matteo Zuppi of Bologna, Italy. / Francesco Pierantoni from Bologna, Italy – Premio Colombe d’oro per la pace via Wikimedia (CC BY 2.0). Rome Newsroom, Jun 5, 2023 / 07:55 am (CNA). Cardinal Matteo Zuppi arrived in Kyiv on Monday to carry out the peace mission entrusted to him by Pope Francis. The Vatican […]

St. Boniface, Bishop and Martyr, Pray for Us!

Emil Doepler, “Bonifacius,” ca. 1905 SAINTS & ART: The English Benedictine missionary St. Boniface taught the faith throughout Germany in the eighth century and sealed it in the blood of his martyrdom

Cardinal Zuppi Arrives in Ukraine to Begin Work as Vatican Peace Envoy

Francesco Pierantoni from Bologna, Italy – Premio Colombe d’oro per la pace Cardinal Matteo Zuppi of Bologna, Italy. During the June 5–6 visit, Cardinal Zuppi is expected to meet with Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kulebas, Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, and possibly President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Pope asks Catholics to welcome everyone, create communion

The Holy Spirit invites the faithful to share in God’s love and to make the church a loving home whose door is open to everyone, Pope Francis said. “Our God is a communion of love: and this is how Jesus revealed him to us,” the pope said before praying the Angelus with some 20,000 visitors […]