Pope’s breathing ‘crisis’ reportedly passes, but he’s still on oxygen
byBy Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — While Italy’s main news agency reported that Pope Francis’ respiratory “crisis” had subsided, a Vatican…
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Deacons are called to selflessness, men ordained at Jubilee Mass are told
byBy Justin McLellan, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — “Being ordained is not an ascent but a descent, whereby we make ourselves small, lower…
Pope has respiratory ‘crisis,’ doctors say ‘prognosis reserved’
byBy Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis experienced “an asthmatic respiratory crisis of prolonged magnitude, which also required the use…
Israel devastated by ‘macabre’ return of child hostages’ bodies as ceasefire holds
byBy Judith Sudilovsky, OSV News JERUSALEM — Israel has identified three of the bodies of hostages returned Feb. 20 but said the body of…
Jubilee of Deacons participants discuss synodality, women deacons
byBy Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service ROME — An international group of permanent deacons and their wives met in Rome to reflect together on…
Pope’s chronic lung condition plus infection are serious, doctor says
byBy Carol Glatz, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — While Pope Francis’ life is not in immediate danger, the level of multiple infections in…
He’s made history as first African American to be cardinal, archbishop of Washington
byBy Mark Zimmermann, OSV News WASHINGTON — When Washington Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory became the first African American cardinal in the history of the…
Trump orders expanded access to IVF, a practice contrary to Catholic teaching
byBy Gina Christian, OSV News President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that aims to expand access to in vitro fertilization, or IVF,…
Catholics worldwide unite in prayer for pope’s health
byBy Junno Arocho Esteves, OSV News As Pope Francis continues to recover at Rome’s Gemelli Hospital, Catholics in the pope’s Diocese of Rome and…
Pope’s condition stable; tests show some improvement
byBy Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis’ doctors described his condition as “stable” late Feb. 19 even though “blood tests,…