On September 23 and 24, a delegation from the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for Life participated in the 74th General Assembly of the Catholic Health Association of India in Kochi, Kerala. The Academy’s President, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, opened the Assembly, which was attended by more than 800 delegates from Catholic healthcare facilities throughout India.  The subject […]

John L. Allen Jr. September 23, 2017 ROME – All leaders naturally run into certain constituencies that can’t help but view them with a degree of skepticism sometimes. From the beginning, one such group in the Church Francis has struggled to bring around has been the most outspoken, and most deeply committed, pro-life thinkers and […]

Elise Harris/CNA/EWTN News VATICAN CITY — On Tuesday, Pope Francis issued a new motu proprio changing the legal status of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family, making it a theological institute charged with studying marriage and the family from a scientific perspective. The motu proprio, titled Summa Familiae Cura, meaning “Highest Care of Families,” was published […]

(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has set up a new Pontifical institute for the study of marriage and the family, replacing the organisation set up by his predecessor in 1981. In a Motu Proprio, published on Tuesday, the Vatican announced that the John Paul II Pontifical Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences is being established […]

(Vatican Radio) August 15th 2017 marks the centenary of the birth of Blessed Oscar Romero, the archbishop of San Salvador who was assassinated for speaking out on behalf of the poor and oppressed during his country’s military dictatorship. There are many events planned to mark the anniversary year, both in his native El Salvador but also […]