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Irish abuse survivor criticizes Vatican’s Curia reform
Marie Collins, one of the founding members of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors in 2014 who quit in protest in 2017, believes new reforms of the Curia will further erode the independence of the commission.
Pope intends to visit Lebanon ‘soon’
Pope Francis said Lebanon has a special place in his prayers, and he reiterated his intention to visit the country he called "a model for the world," in a conversation with President Michel Aoun, a Maronite Catholic.
Text of prayer of consecration for Ukraine, Russia
See the Act of Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, sent by the Vatican to bishops throughout the world, whom Pope Francis will lead when he recites the prayer March 25 in St. Peter's Basilica.
El texto para la consagración de Rusia y Ucrania
Este es el texto del Vaticano para la Consagración al Inmaculado Corazón de María. El papa Francisco ha invitado a los obispos y al resto del mundo a unirse a él cuando recite la oración el 25 de marzo en la Basílica de San Pedro.
Russia and Ukraine, and all humanity, to be consecrated to Mary
With Russia's invasion of Ukraine and responding to a request from Ukrainian bishops, Pope Francis will lead all the world's bishops, clergy and faithful in the act of consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary March 25 in Rome.
After frightening trip, Ukrainian families welcomed in Polish convents
Some 18,000 refugees from Ukraine were receiving spiritual, psychological, medical and material help at 924 convents in Poland and about half are sheltering almost 3,000 adults -- mostly women -- and more than 3,000 children.
Pope’s sweeping Curia reform stresses evangelization, laity
In reorganizing the Catholic Church's central administration, Pope Francis' reforms promote a "healthy decentralization" that links synodality, care for the poor, missionary discipleship and roles for lay leadership in the Roman Curia.
Pope asks bishops worldwide to join consecration of Ukraine, Russia
Bishops everywhere announced they'd join Pope Francis the minute they heard what he had planned. In her appearances at Fatima in 1917, Mary requested the consecration of Russia.
British Parliament rejects bill to allow assisted suicide
The defeat of an amendment to a health care bill in the House of Lords represents the 12th time in 25 years that the legislature has dismissed an attempt to legalize suicide.
War in Ukraine ‘leaves us dumbfounded,’ pope says
While war always "leaves the world worse off," Pope Francis hoped the war in Ukraine would spur a commitment to international peacemaking, with Europe leading the way.