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Pope stable, treatment continues [Thursday PM update]
Thursday PM: The Vatican has announced that because the Pope’s condition now appears stable, the press office will no longer deliver twice-daily updates on his status. The next scheduled...
Pope’s condition worsens
The medical condition of Pope Francis deteriorated early Friday afternoon, February 28, with a “sudden worsening of the respiratory picture,” the Vatican reported. After a quiet...Papal condition update
(As Pope Francis remains in Gemelli Hospital, CWN will relay medical bulletins if and when they provide useful new information.) Friday morning, February 28: Pope Francis passed another restful...Syrian Patriarchs plead for peace as hundreds of Alawites, Christians are killed
The Patriarch of the Melkite Catholic Church, the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch, and the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch issued a joint statement denouncing the “dangerous...Vatican newspaper editor lauds The Brutalist
Andrea Monda, the editor-in-chief of the Vatican newspaper, lauded The Brutalist, a 2024 movie, as undoubtedly “the most interesting film currently in theaters.”Weaving quotations from Pope Francis about corruption into his four-paragraph March 4 editorial, Monda wrote that “the main theme of the film is in fact the relationship between beauty and corruption, on how virtue can resist the temptations, seductions, and violence of the world, its brutality.”
Pope’s condition improved, doctors report [Monday PM update]
Pope Francis spent a restful weekend at Gemelli Hospital, and his condition has now remained stable for a week, without significant setbacks. On Monday evening, March 10, the Vatican reported...Indianapolis archdiocese investigates possible Eucharistic miracle
The Archdiocese of Indianapolis is investigating a possible Eucharistic miracle at a parish in Morris, Indiana, according to a local television station.Citing posts on the social media platform X, Catholic Vote reported that “two consecrated hosts that had been dropped separately during daily Mass Feb. 21 were set in water and placed in the tabernacle to dissolve, in accordance with precautions the Church takes.” The following day, a sacristan saw what appeared to be spots of blood on the hosts.
Vatican spokesman decries EU military aid for Ukraine
Andrea Tornielli, editorial director of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Communication, criticized the EU’s plan to provide 800 billion euros ($867 billion) in military assistance to Ukraine.Europe “has only seemed capable of supplying arms to Ukraine, which was unjustly attacked by Russian troops, but not of proposing and pursuing concrete negotiating paths to end the bloody conflict,” said Tornielli. “And now, following similar initiatives by other world powers, Europe is preparing to invest the exorbitant sum of 800 billion euros in weapons.”
Tornielli suggested that EU leaders should instead have worked with the Trump administration to develop a peace initiative:
The expected and foreseeable geopolitical shift with the change of leadership in the White House could have led to a common initiative along the lines suggested by the Pope, aimed at ending the carnage taking place in the heart of Christian Europe. Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin recently stated in an interview: “Authentic peace arises from the involvement of all parties. Everyone must have something; in a compromise, no one can have everything, and everyone must be willing to negotiate.”
