Deacon-structing lectors and acolytes

Monday, January 18, 2021

Deacon Pedro

Were you surprised at the news last week that women are now allowed to serve as lectors and acolytes? Deacon Pedro tells us everything we need to know.

Deacon-structing Encyclicals

Monday, October 19, 2020

Deacon Pedro

With the recent release of Pope Francis' new encyclical, Fratelli Tutti, Deacon Pedro gives us a refresher course on encyclicals and other types of papal documents.

Behind Vatican Walls: Feast of St. Mary Magdalene proclaimed

Friday, June 10, 2016

Alicia Ambrosio

Saint Mary Magdalene will now be remembered in the Church’s liturgical calendar the same way the twelves apostles and Our Lady are remembered. The Vatican has issued a decree elevating the memorial of her life to a feast, something reserved for important moments in Church history and important people like the apostles and the Blessed […]

Pope issues Motu Proprio on election process

Monday, February 25, 2013

Sebastian Gomes

Photo: Archbishop Pier Luigi Celata, Vice-Chamberlain of the Apostolic Chamber, sits between Fr. Federico Lombardi, SJ and Fr. Thomas Rosica, CSB at this afternoon’s press briefing at the Vatican. Archbishop Celata gave a summary of the Motu Proprio issued by Pope Benedict. Just before noon in Rome, Pope Benedict issued a Motu Proprio leaving the […]

The Church’s Deepest Nature: Letter from Pope Benedict XVI

Monday, December 3, 2012

Alicia Ambrosio

Pope Benedict XVI has released guidelines about how Catholic charities should be organized and who oversees them. He wrote the guidelines in a papal letter released “motu proprio” (of his own impulse) called Intima Ecclesia Natura, or The Church’s Deepest Nature. It was released by the Vatican December 1. In the letter the pope warns […]