New pontifical website for lay Catholics worldwide

The Vatican’s Pontifical Council for the Laity is positioning its website as a resource for lay men and women ahead of Pope Benedict’s Year of Faith, which will kick-off in October, according to the Catholic News Agency. “It is directed to all the lay...

The Paul Ryan debate

Noted Catholic commentator and media personality Father Robert Barron picks up a theme familiar to Vincentians   and applies it very effectively to Catholic social teaching  which is coming to the forefront of political discourse today. Fr. Barron speaks of Catholic...
Did the Vatican butler do it… alone?

Did the Vatican butler do it… alone?

(Romereports.com) The Vatican has officially indicted the pope’s butler, Paolo Gabriele, with charges of aggravated theft over the Vatileaks case of stolen documents. Vatican spokesperson, Federico Lombardi, also announced that a second Vatican...

Statement of the LCWR

Reading aloud from a prepared statement, which came after approval from the 900 sisters gathered at the assembly, LCWR’s president, Franciscan Sr. Pat Farrell, said LCWR membership wanted to use the occasion of the Vatican order “to explain to church leaders LCWR’s...