Synodality: a new stage in the reception of the Second Vatican Council

Front cover of the special document designed and published by the contact team of the Diocese of Cotonou to guide synodal consultations/Juste Hlannon/LCA News facts Sister Anne BĂ©atrice Faye is a Senegalese nun from the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception of Castres. Member of the international theological research project … Read more

Riggio: 60th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council

60th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council (11 October 1962 – 2022) Tomorrow marks the 60th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council. Pope John XXIII wanted it, continued it and closed it, in 1965, by Pope Paolo VI. The event will be commemorated by Pope Francis who for the occasion invited to … Read more

Vatican. Gambetti: «The basilica of San Pietro? Not a museum. Closer to the faithful “

Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, a conventual Franciscan friar minor, now archpriest of St. Peter’s Basilica On Sunday evening on the facade of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome a videomapping will be projected that tells the life of the Fisherman of Galilee. The singer Andrea Bocelli will inaugurate the evening while the actor Flavio Insinna will be … Read more

The life of Saint Peter on the facade of the Vatican Basilica

Combining art and faith, itineraries proposed by the pastoral care of Saint Peter’s Basilica were presented in the Press Room of the Holy See. From October 2, a video will be projected on the facade of the basilica to present the life of Saint Peter. Paolo Ondarza – Vatican City Show the face of the … Read more

The Vatican will question in a congress the current meaning of sainthood:

ROME, 19 (EUROPE PRESS) The Dicastery for the Causes of Saints has organized a conference in Rome from October 3 to 6 that will question what sainthood is today and whether to be saints one must also be a superhero. “What is heroism today? Is the saint a superman?” asked the prefect of the Vatican … Read more

The Vatican opens the debate on the meaning of sainthood: “Is the saint a superhero?”

The Dicastery for the Causes of Saints has organized From October 3 to 6 in Rome, a congress that will ask what holiness is today. “What is heroism today? Is the saint a superman?the prefect of the causes of canonization, Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, asked rhetorically during the press conference in which the congress was presented. … Read more

Blog | Ukraine, pressure on the Vatican continues but the Pope remains out of the chorus

The pressure of the Ukrainian government against the Vatican. The Ukrainian president Zelensky the Pope would like to go to Kyiv, possibly before the pontiff’s trip to Kazakhstan (which will take place on 13 September). Francesco has not decided. He would prefer a mission to both Kyiv and Moscow to encourage one peace negotiation. It’s … Read more

The Vatican puts families at the center of the evangelization of the Church

The working sessions of the World Meeting of Families in the Vatican have started this Thursday highlighting the family role in Evangelization. The first speakers of the day, Gregory and Lisa Popcak, executive directors of the Peyton Institute, have explained their pastoral program on the life of the domestic churches. An intervention that has set … Read more

Francis defends Vatican II against refractories and utopians

Pope Francis is seeking to spare the Church both the “backward ideology” of refractory opponents of the Second Vatican Council, and the headlong rush of those who take the “synodal path” of the Church of Germany for a wasteland for experimenting with various utopias. While still seeking to prepare for the future of the Church, … Read more