“The news that comes in of our beloved Ukrainian land every day overwhelms us with sadness and anxiety,” Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti, the president of Italian Episcopal Conference, said in a letter to Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. “In these dramatic hours, the Church [in] Italy stands next to His Beatitude with great love and a fervent prayer.”
POPE FRANCIS TO CONFER NEW LAY MINISTRIES FOR FIRST TIME IN ST. PETER’S BASILICA
The Vatican has announced that Pope Francis will confer the ministries of catechist, lector, and acolyte upon lay men and