Catholic World News
Most Popular Within Last 30 Days
The Vatican has released Pope Francis’s apostolic exhortation Evangelii Gaudium [Joy of the Gospel], one of the most important papal documents on evangelization of the past five decades. The...
During his homily at Mass on November 18, Pope Francis called the first chapter of the First Book of Maccabees “one of the saddest pages in the Bible” because “a great part of the people of God...
A German bishop has said that the country’s episcopal conference will move forward with plans to allow Communion for divorced and remarried Catholics, despite clear disapproval from the...
New York’s Mayor-elect Bill De Blasio has assembled a transition team that includes two Jewish rabbis, two Protestant ministers, and a Muslim imam, but no Catholic priests. Bill Donohue, the...
Five former US ambassadors to the Holy See are objecting to a plan to relocate the embassy, reports John Allen of the National Catholic Reporter. Allen discloses that a contract has already been...
The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople has denied rumors that Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople, who holds a primacy of honor in Eastern Orthodoxy, is a Freemason. “The Ecumenical...
The Italian journalist whose interview with Pope Francis caused an international sensation has revealed that he made up some of the answers that he attributed to the Pope. Eugenio Scalfari, the...
Protesters from a Catholic traditionalist group disrupted an inter-faith service in Buenos Aires marking the anniversary of Kristallnacht on November 12. The disrupters, who were affiliated with...
[News Analysis by CWN Editor Phil Lawler] With his apostolic exhortation Evangelii Gaudium, Pope Francis gives the world not only a guide to the “new evangelization” but also an outline of his...
The Council of Cardinals opened its 2nd full working session on December 3, meeting with Pope Francis to advance plans for a thorough reform of the Roman Curia. Briefing reporters on the meeting,...
