Relations between the U.S. and the Catholic Church haven’t been the similar since January, when senior U.S. protection officers shared an abrasive message with a Vatican official. Days after Pope Leo XIV delivered his State of the World speech, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby summoned Cardinal Christophe Pierre, the Vatican’s U.S. consultant, to…
Celebrating the Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Holy Thursday night in the Papal Basilica of St. John Lateran, Pope Leo XIV tells his brother monks that they are to serve the Lord by giving all of their lives to the People of God, and stresses that on this time of nice brutality round the…
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Palm Sunday procession on the foot of an 85-foot-tall Egyptian obelisk in St. Peter’s Square recalls the martyrdom of many early Christians and the fast-thinking foresight of an Italian Renaissance sea captain. Palm Sunday on the Vatican begins with a procession of younger individuals carrying olive branches and huge inexperienced…