Posts Tagged ‘Holy See’

Holy See – nuclear security needs global ethic of responsibility

Friday, December 9th, 2016

The Holy See says the international community must “embrace an ethic of responsibility”. It says it is essential to create “a climate of trust, and to strengthen cooperative security through multilateral dialogue.” The comments were made at a meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Monseigneur  Antoine Camilleri, Undersecretary for Relations with States said Read more

Pope tells Missionaries of Mercy to bring back lost sheep

Friday, February 12th, 2016

Pope Francis has laid out his vision of re-evangelisation in the 21st century, stating that the “club of judgement” will not bring back the lost sheep. Francis told hundreds of priests who are to serve as “Missionaries of Mercy” during the jubilee year that holiness of life is the principle of renewal and reform in Read more

The Holy See, a bulwark against the clash of civilisations

Tuesday, November 24th, 2015

In the last quarter century, since the fall of the Berlin Wall redrew the map of the world, the Holy See was the only global institution that firmly and clearly opposed the so-called clash of civilisations. Many in the West and the Middle East sought this clash of civilisations due to economic, territorial and political Read more

Aust bishops offer to help govt work against death penalty

Friday, October 30th, 2015

Australia’s Catholic bishops have offered the Church’s help for the Australian government’s international work to abolish the death penalty. The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference president, Archbishop Denis Hart, wrote to a parliamentary inquiry into Australia’s advocacy for the abolition of the death penalty. “The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference would be happy to assist the Australian Read more

France drops attempt to appoint gay ambassador to Vatican

Friday, October 16th, 2015

France has reportedly dropped its attempt to appoint a gay Catholic diplomat as its ambassador to the Vatican, after a nine month standoff. In January, President Francois Hollande named Laurent Stefani as ambassador to the Holy See. The Vatican did not accept his credentials, but did not explicitly reject him. Mr Stefani, who is President Read more

Three Chinese bishops visit US seeking reconciliation

Tuesday, September 29th, 2015

Three bishops from China have travelled to the United States seeking reconciliation with the universal Church. The visits of Bishops Joseph Ma Yinglin, John Baptist Yang Xiaoting and Vincent Zhan Silu coincided with visits by Pope Francis and Chinese President Xi Jinping to the US. The three prelates belong to the Chinese-government sanctioned bishops’ conference Read more

Applications sought for holy year Missionaries of Mercy

Friday, August 21st, 2015

The Vatican is now taking applications from priests who want to be ‘missionaries of mercy’ for the upcoming jubilee Year of Mercy. In Misericordiae Vultus, promulgated in April, Pope Francis stated that the missionaries of mercy would be granted “the authority to pardon even those sins reserved to the Holy See”. These sins include desecration Read more

Holy See withdraws from anti-human-trafficking network

Friday, July 31st, 2015

The Holy See has withdrawn from an alliance formed to combat human trafficking. The Global Freedom Network signed an agreement in the Vatican in March last year, aiming to form an interreligious network supported by the Walk Free Foundation, which is financed by Australian magnate Andrew Forrest. The goal was to foster awareness among religious Read more

Vatican official says United Nations is not the devil

Friday, July 17th, 2015

The chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences says the United Nations is not the devil, and the academy is free to collaborate with it. Bishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo said the Church will continue to collaborate with the United Nations on any joint project that “does not go against the doctrine of the Church”. The Read more

New Vatican dicastery to oversee communications

Tuesday, June 30th, 2015

The Vatican’s nine communications offices are to be consolidated under the authority of a new Secretariat for Communications. Pope Francis announced the new secretariat with a motu proprio, promulgated on June 27. The new dicastery will oversee the all of the Vatican’s communications offices, including Vatican Radio, L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican Television Centre, the Holy Read more