Catholic Church

By Maike Hickson, LifeSiteNews - In this new interview, Paul Badde reveals how intensely the Holy Face of Manoppello – or the Volto Santo, as the Italians call it – is involved in the Church's recent history. Paul Badde shows, for example, how Cardinal Joachim Meisner visited the Holy Face only a short time before the 2005 Conclave. At that Conclave, with Paul Badde's help, Cardinal Meisner was able to show his fellow cardinals that there then existed an attempt… to prevent Joseph Ratzinger’s election…

By Hannah Brockhaus, CNA/EWTN News - In his decree, Pope Francis stated that from the beginning of his papacy, he felt the need for a total reorganization of the governorate of the Vatican, “in order to make it ever more suitable to current needs, to the ecclesial service that it is called to lend to the mission of the Roman Pontiff in the world, and the particular institutional purpose of the Vatican City State.”

By Fr. James V. Schall, S.J., Catholic Exchange - At His birth, Christ’s conception becomes public to shepherds, to the world. We wonder about the difference between a child’s initial conception and his birth nine months later. A British court decided that a child in the womb was not in law a “person.” This arbitrary decision was based on nothing other than the will to allow abortion with legal impunity. Otherwise the whole modern practice of denying the full dignity of a child would be undermined.

Catholic News Agency - Three Catholic charitable organizations were named as winners of $5 million grants from the charitable organization of Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos... Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New Orleans, Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Miami, and Catholic Community Services of Western Washington were three of the 24 organizations selected to receive grants by the Bezos Day 1 Families Fund... A total of $97.5 million was distributed amongst the selected organizations, with the grants awarded at either the $5 million or $2.5 million levels.