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Faith

Kerry Alys Robinson and Sister Simone Campbell, a Sister of Social Service, speak during the Voices of Faith gathering March 8 at the Vatican. The event, held on International Women's Day, had the theme "Stirring the Waters-Making the Impossible Possible."

Vatican forum calls for church, world to heed women's voices

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VATICAN CITY – Women and men from around the globe gathered for an event inside Vatican City that celebrated and encouraged the need for women's voices to be heard in the church and in the world.

In a blunt interview Catholic activist Sister Simone Campbell suggested that the Vatican’s senior clergy are more preoccupied with power than with confronting issues that affect the faithful.

In blunt talk at the Vatican, activist nun blasts ‘male power’

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VATICAN CITY – Catholic activist Sister Simone Campbell has suggested that senior clergy at the Vatican are more preoccupied with power than confronting issues that affect the faithful, like clerical sexual abuse.

A Vatican workshop concludes that overconsumption and unjust wealth distribution is a bigger threat to the planet than population growth.

Papal academies: Bigger threat to planet is greed, not population growth

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VATICAN CITY – Increasing threats against biodiversity, unsustainable use of the earth's resources and accelerated extinction rates are driven more by overconsumption and unjust wealth distribution than by the number of people on the planet, a Vatican workshop concluded.

The Catholic Church's new medical and bioethical charter goes beyond just health professionals; it encompasses all things related to health.

Vatican's new health charter goes beyond patient-doctor relations

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VATICAN CITY – When updating the Catholic Church's medical and bioethical charter, experts decided it wasn't enough to aim the guidelines at health care professionals.

Bishop Virgilio Antunes of Coimbra, Portugal, formally closed the local phase of investigation into her life and holiness Feb. 13 in the Carmelite convent of St. Teresa in Coimbra, where she resided until her death in 2005 at the age of 97.

Diocesan phase of Fatima visionary's sainthood cause completed

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VATICAN CITY – The Diocese of Coimbra concluded its phase of the sainthood cause of Carmelite Sister Lucia dos Santos, one of the three children who saw Our Lady of Fatima in 1917.

In a preface to a new book by Daniel Pittet, a Swiss victim who was sexually abused for four years by a priest as a child, Pope Francis asks for forgiveness from clergy sex abuse victims.

Pope Francis seeks forgiveness from clergy sex abuse victims

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VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis has condemned clerical sex abuse as an “absolute monstrosity” and asked victims and their families for forgiveness on behalf of the Catholic Church.

Pope Francis speaks during his general audience in Paul VI hall at the Vatican Feb. 8.

Pope Francis admits there's corruption at the Vatican

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VATICAN CITY – In a talk with representatives of Catholic men's religious orders, Pope Francis admitted there’s “corruption” in the Vatican but said he is not troubled by it and is working to reform the church administration.

Vatican nuncio to the United Nations, Archbishop Bernardito Auza, says solutions to poverty has to be more than just about economics. They also have to include social, personal and environmental factors.

Vatican's U.N. nuncio urges action on poverty that moves beyond economics

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UNITED NATIONS – Saying poverty is the greatest challenge facing humanity, the Vatican's permanent observer to the United Nations called on nations to seek solutions to poverty not only based on economics but to also address personal, social and environmental factors that contribute to it.

Msgr. Jean-Marie Mupendawatu, secretary delegate for health care in the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, updates the church's position on bioethical questions.

Vatican releases updated guidelines for bioethical questions

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VATICAN CITY – To offer clearly and accurately the Catholic Church's positions on abortion, contraception, genetic engineering, fertility treatments, vaccines, frozen embryos and other life issues, the Vatican released an expanded and updated guide of the church's bioethical teachings.

The beauty of a sacred space is connected to one's understanding of faith, says Vatican officials.

Why the Vatican thinks priests should learn about art, beauty

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VATICAN CITY – Ugly churches with bad acoustics don't do justice to the richness and beauty of the liturgy – and it's this connection between art and faith that's vital for priests to understand today, a Vatican official insists.

Theoretical physicist and cosmologist is one of the members of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences that the Vatican wants to draw from.

Facts first: Vatican seeks scientific data before making judgments

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VATICAN CITY – The Vatican believes scientific facts exist and it wants to hear about them from world-renowned scientists before it offers guidance on or criticism of related political, social or economic policies.

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