Vatican : une nouvelle caserne pour la garde suisse

8 juillet 2025 Source: FSSPX Actualités Les études préliminaires à la reconstruction de la caserne de la garde suisse sont achevées, ce qui a permis aux architectes du cabinet Dürisch & Nolli de préparer, en 2024, la présentation du projet final...

First ‘green mass’ celebrated, the Pope wants to build solar power plant for Vatican

Pope Leo XIV celebrated the first ‘green mass’ at the Vatican on Wednesday, using new prayers dedicated to caring for God’s creation. The mass was held in the gardens of the new eco-education centre at the Vatican’s summer estate in Castel...

Ukraine’s Zelenskyy meets with Pope Leo XIV. Both propose the Vatican as site for peace talks

The Vatican recognizes alleged apparitions in Slovakia, but acknowledges "ambiguities"

This is Mount Zvir, in Slovakia. It is almost 2 miles from a small town with a Byzantine Catholic tradition. The Virgin Mary supposedly appeared here to three children between 1990 and 1995. Today, it is a shrine visited by thousands of people,...

Vatican spokesman: ‘Traditionis custodes’ leak ‘very partial’

Vatican offers new guide for implementation phase of Synod

The opening session of the Synod on Synodality in the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall in October 2024 (CNA/Daniel Ibanez) A new document from the Synod of Bishops released yesterday is intended “to provide an interpretive key” for bishops to implement...

Take action against Christianophobia, Vatican diplomat urges UN Security Council Headlines

Catholic World News July 09, 2025 » Continue to this story on Holy See Mission CWN Editor's Note: During a recent UN Security Council discussion of children in armed conflict, a Vatican diplomat strayed from the topic at hand to plead for...

Vatican’s synod office postpones reports on controversial issues

Vatican City, Jul 7, 2025 / 13:15 pm The Vatican’s synod office has said that final reports from Synod on Synodality study groups — including opinions on women deacons and controversial doctrinal issues such as LGBT inclusion — have been postponed...

Let’s Pursue “paths that lead to peace”: Vatican-based Cardinal to Ghanaians

“If Jeremiah tells us that we are at the crossroads and we should find which path leads to peace, then it means right now we may be travelling on a path which does not lead to peace,” the Vatican-based Cardinal said. He said, “To be talking about...

Caring for others, serving life is the ‘supreme law,’ pope says

VATICAN CITY — Serving life by caring for others is “the supreme law” that comes before all of society’s rules, Pope Leo XIV said. “Imitating the example of Jesus, the Savior of the world, we too are called to bring consolation and hope, above all...

Vatican offers new guidance for Synod’s implementation phase

The General Secretariat of the Synod releases “Pathways for the Implementation of the Synod”, which provides “an interpretive key for understanding the implementation phase of the Synod on Synodality.” By Christopher Wells A new document from the...

Pope Leo: Vatican still ready to host peace talks between Russia and Ukraine

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Pope Leo XIV reiterated his willingness to host representatives of Russia and Ukraine at the Vatican for peace negotiations. “During the cordial conversation, the...

Gaza’s Christian community persevering amid hardship and hope

Father Gabriel Romanelli, pastor of Holy Family Church in Gaza City, celebrates Mass after the death of Pope Francis was announced by the Vatican, April 21, 2025. Father Romanelli admitted his flock is exhausted by war and a severe lack of food....

Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors’ new president “pioneer in his field”

French Archbishop Thibault Verny of Chambéry, is pictured in an April 3, 2025, photo. The Vatican announced July 5 that Pope Leo XIV appointed Archbishop Verny, 58, president of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, succeeding...

VATICAN/ANGELUS - Pope Leo: we must ask the “Lord of the harvest” to send out “joyful laborers” to the “mission field”

VaticanMedia Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Church and the world “do not need people who fulfill their religious duties as if the faith were merely an external label”. Instead, we need “laborers who are eager to work in the mission field,...

Vatican accepts investigation into ‘Little Cajun Saint’ Charlene Richard

Richard Richard The Advocate The Vatican has officially accepted and approved the investigation into the life of Charlene Richard, “the Little Cajun Saint,” according to the Charlene Richard Foundation. Charlene, a Richard native, died from acute...

Vatican Follies

By Jirair Tutunjian In the past year or two Armenians and possibly odars have been baffled and repelled by the late Pope Francis’ inexplicable warm relations with the Azerbaijan dictatorship. There are fewer than 600 Catholics in Azerbaijan. Now...

Vatican Announces Pope Leo XIV’s Public Mass Schedule for August and September

On Sunday, Sept. 7, the 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, he will celebrate the eagerly awaited Mass for the canonization of Blesseds Pier Giorgio Frassati and Carlo Acutis. The Office for Liturgical Celebrations at the Vatican has announced Pope Leo...

Pope Leo XIV receives Zelensky and offers the Vatican for negotiations between Ukraine and Russia

Pope Leo XIV received on Wednesday at his residence in Castel Gandolfo, in southern Rome, the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, to whom he offered the Vatican as a venue for negotiations with Moscow, which Kiev accuses of rejecting this...

Pope Leo XIV offers to host peace talks at the Vatican after meeting with Zelenskyy

Pope Leo XIV offers to host peace talks at the Vatican after meeting with Zelenskyy VATICAN CITY (RNS) — The Ukrainian president met with the pope at his summer residence in Castel Gandolfo. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, and Pope...