The huge multinational German-owned financial services company Allianz gave Father Federico Lombardi SJ, director of the Holy See Press Office, a special award recently. The Communicator of the Year award is given by the global financial empire in an effort…

Pope Francis met with Israeli President Shimon Peres who warned him that “the Middle East is ‘disintegrating’ and that the pontiff ‘has an important role’ to play in bringing peace to the region and the world.” Peres told the Pope…

On April 26, 2013, Pope Francis met with Italy’s Prime Minister Mario Monti. The Prime Minister, who was accompanied by his wife Elsa, met with Pope Francis for about 20 minutes. The meeting came just two days before Monti completed…

Pope Francis called Giorgio Napolitano, the newly re-elected president of Italy. “The Pope expressed his gratitude and his admiration for the Italian president.” “Mr. President, I called to thank you for your example,” Pope Francis told the president. “You have…

Pope Francis received Andry Nirina Rajoelina, president of the High Transitional Authority of Madagascar in audience at the Vatican. The president also met with Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, Secretary for Relations with States. The cordial talks, focused on the good relations…

Imagine Pope Francis talking about the final judgment and the second coming of Christ. “Human history begins with the creation of man and woman in the image and likeness of God and concludes with the final judgment of Christ. We…

The United Nations General Secretary, Ban Ki-moon was received in audience by Pope Francis I in the Apostolic Palace, in which they discussed their common purposes in the society of nations. Ban also met with the Vatican Secretary of State,…

More than 84% of Catholics and 57 percent of Non-Catholics in the United States have a favorable view of the new pope, says a Pew Research poll, which is greater than for a U.S. president. Most politicians and popes have…

Bartholomew I, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, attended the papal installation Mass of Pope Francis I. No Greek Orthodox patriarch has attended a papal installation Mass for almost 1000 years, since 1054 when the split between east and west occurred….

At his installation Mass in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Francis called on world leaders to protect the environment, the weakest and the poorest. Speaking in terms of peace, the pope said that exercising “love and tenderness would not allow ‘omens…

Pope Benedict XVI will live in a Vatican convent for the rest of his life after a brief period at the papal summer residence at Castel Gandolfo. By doing so, he will be protected from prosecution in connection with sexual…

A week before Cardinal Timothy Dolan was to fly to Rome for the papal conclave lawyers grilled him for hours behind closed doors about child sex-abuse by priests in his former diocese of Milwaukee. The lawyers represent hundreds of victims…