Vatican City, Oct 31, 2019 / 11:54 am (CNA).- Pope Francis met with military chaplains from around the world Thursday as they participate in a formation course on international humanitarian law hosted by the Vatican. “Dear Ordinaries and military chaplains: as you carry out your mission to form the consciences of the members of the

Buffalo, N.Y., Oct 31, 2019 / 11:48 am (CNA).- Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio has completed his Apostolic Visitation of the Diocese of Buffalo. A statement released by DiMarzio’s own Diocese of Brooklyn on Thursday confirmed that the visitation had concluded and he will submit a report to the Holy See.  The bishop offered no comment on

Vatican City, Oct 31, 2019 / 10:25 am (CNA).- Pope Francis spoke Thursday about education as a path to peace, saying that if people of faith do not transmit concrete values to young people, the message will get stuck in the incomprehensible abstract. “The responsibility towards the new generations requires above all the commitment to

Washington D.C., Oct 30, 2019 / 02:00 pm (CNA).- The House of Representatives voted Tuesday to pass a resolution recognizing the genocide of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), sponsor of the resolution, said after the vote that “the House declared that it will no longer be party to the cause of genocide

Washington D.C., Oct 30, 2019 / 01:44 pm (CNA).- When Janice Benton, OFS was attending college in Michigan, she answered an ad in her parish bulletin that was seeking someone willing to be a catechist for children with intellectual disabilities. That response would begin a career spanning several decades, where she would work to improve

Tokyo, Japan, Oct 30, 2019 / 01:02 pm (CNA).- Pope Francis’ three-day visit to Japan in November will include a meeting with people affected by the country’s “triple disaster,” when a major earthquake and subsequent tsunami on March 11, 2011 triggered a meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. An estimated 19,000 people died

Washington D.C., Oct 30, 2019 / 11:30 am (CNA).- Presidential candidate Joe Biden’s denial of reception of Holy Communion in South Carolina on Sunday has renewed scrutiny of his evolving views on abortion. Over the course of his decades-long career, the Catholic former vice president has said in the past that the Supreme Court decision

Vatican City, Oct 30, 2019 / 11:25 am (CNA).- The theologian who chaired a 2017 Vatican study group on Humanae vitae has been appointed the vice president of Rome’s Pontifical John Paul II Institute. Fr. Gilfredo Marengo, a professor at the institute, chaired a group of academics who reviewed the historical archives connected to Humanae

Vatican City, Oct 29, 2019 / 02:03 pm (CNA).- An Italian dermatology hospital and two senior cardinals are at the center of a burgeoning financial scandal involving a Vatican bank, the U.S.-based Papal Foundation, and millions of euros from misallocated government grants. The events concern the financial collapse of the Istituto Dermopatico dell’Immacolata (IDI), an

Harrisburg, Pa., Oct 29, 2019 / 02:00 pm (CNA).- A Pennsylvanian state lawmaker who offered money in exchange for the identities and other personal information of pro-life activists, including two minors, has apologized to the family, five months after his actions. Rep. Brian Sims (D-Philadelphia), the subject of an unrelated ethics investigation, wrote a card to