Vatican News

St. Paul VI’s feast to be celebrated May 29

Vatican City, Feb 6, 2019 / 05:53 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The Vatican announced Wednesday that Pope St. Paul VI’s feast day will be celebrated annually on May 29 as an optional memorial.

“Before and after becoming Pope, Saint Paul VI lived with his gaze constantly fixed on Christ whom he considered and proclaimed as a necessity for everyone,” Cardinal Robert Sarah, prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship, commented on the papal decree.

Pope says UAE trip was 'new page' in dialogue between Christians, Muslims

Vatican City, Feb 6, 2019 / 03:23 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis said Wednesday that his recent trip to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates was a step forward in Catholic-Muslim dialogue and promoting peace among religions.

Though a brief visit, the “scattered seeds” of the Feb. 3-5 trip will bear fruit according to God’s will, he said during the general audience Feb. 6.

Cuomo proposal would lift New York’s ban on surrogacy contracts

Albany, N.Y., Feb 5, 2019 / 08:00 pm (CNA).- Just days after expanding legal abortion up to the point of birth, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is proposing a law that would lift the ban on surrogacy contracts in the state of New York.

If passed, the law would allow New Yorkers to pay a woman to carry to term a child conceived through in-vitro fertilization. It would not allow a surrogate mother to use her own eggs, and therefore be related biologically to the child.

Pope says Church is working to end abuse of women religious by clerics

Vatican City, Feb 5, 2019 / 02:01 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis said Tuesday he is aware that mistreatment and abuse of religious women by clerics is still a problem, and that it is something the Church is working to end.

“It’s true, within the Church there have been clerics who have done this,” the pope said Feb. 5. “Must something more be done? Yes. Do we have the will? Yes.”

Pope Francis appeals for Yemen's starving children

Vatican City, Feb 3, 2019 / 05:28 am (CNA/EWTN News).- During the Angelus Sunday, Pope Francis urged people to think of and pray for the many people in Yemen, especially children, who are starving to death in the war.

Praying a ‘Hail Mary’ for the people of Yemen, the pope urged people Feb. 3 to “pray hard, because there are children who are hungry, who are thirsty, who have no medicine, and are in danger of death,” adding that “we take this thought home with us.”

Pope Francis: healthcare should be 'at the service of life'

Vatican City, Feb 1, 2019 / 11:18 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis said Friday that health centers should always be places of life, where the sick and suffering are cared for both physically and spiritually.

“Your buildings must be ‘inns’ – like that of the parable of the Samaritan – at the service of life, spaces where especially the sick and the poor feel welcomed,” the pope said Feb. 1 to a group of the Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God.

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