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Promotional image for the Netflix documentary series, "Vatican Girl: The Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi." (Netflix via CNA)

Netflix series ‘Vatican Girl’ offers up conspiracy theories in the style of Dan Brown

Zelda Caldwell|Oct 20, 2022|3 Min Read

Cardinal Robert W. McElroy of San Diego gives the homily as he celebrates a Mass of thanksgiving at St. Patrick's Church in Rome in this Aug. 28, 2022, file photo. Pope Francis appointed him a member of the Dicastery for Laity, the Family and Life as well as the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Pope appoints new cardinals as members of dicasteries

Junno Arocho Esteves|Oct 7, 2022|2 Min Read

People pose for a photo at the premier of the "The Letter: A Message For Our Earth," a film on Pope Francis' encyclical, "Laudato Si', on Care for Our Common Home," in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican Oct. 4, 2022. Pictured from left are the film's writer and director, Nicolas Brown; U.S. coral reef scientist Greg Asner; Arouna Kandé, a climate refugee from Senegal; Ridhima Pandey, a 13-year-old climate activist from India; U.S. coral reef scientist Robin Martin; Chief Cacique Odair "Dadá" Borari from the Amazon rainforest in Brazil; and Lorna Gold, president of the board of the Laudato Si' Movement. (CNS photo/Laudato Si' Movement)

Open letter: Papal document on ecology hits screens to increase action

Carol Glatz|Oct 5, 2022|5 Min Read

Pope Francis and global activists are pictured in a banner for the new YouTube Originals film on the pope's encyclical, "Laudato Si', on Care for Our Common Home." The film launched Oct. 4, feast of St. Francis of Assisi, the same day the Holy See acceded to the Paris Agreement. (CNS photo/YouTube Originals)

Vatican marks ecology saint's feast day with film premiere, climate accords

Carol Glatz|Oct 4, 2022|3 Min Read

Pope Francis talks with Portuguese Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça, Vatican archivist and librarian, during a ceremony in the Vatican Library Nov. 5, 2021. Pope Francis has named Cardinal de Mendonça to be prefect of the new Dicastery for Culture and Education. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

For Vatican’s new culture czar, beware of popes bearing gifts

John L. Allen Jr.|Sep 30, 2022|4 Min Read

Retired East Timorese Bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, center, speaks a March 26, 2007, news conference in Jakarta, Indonesia. The Nobel Peace Prize winner has been accused of sexual abuse of minors. (CNS photo/Dadang Tri, Reuters)

World

Vatican says it restricted East Timor archbishop after abuse allegations

Catholic News Service|Sep 30, 2022|4 Min Read

An artistic rendition shows a scene from an eight-minute film on the life and discipleship of St. Peter that will be projected onto the facade of St. Peter's Basilica. The short film, in Italian with English subtitles, will be shown every 15 minutes from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. Oct. 2-16. (CNS photo/Basilica of St. Peter)

St. Peter’s Basilica to light up with video projection telling the story of first pope

Courtney Mares|Sep 20, 2022|2 Min Read

People buy food at a local market in downtown San Francisco July 13, 2022. (CNS photo/Carlos Barria, Reuters)

Inflation challenges the Church’s concern for both wallets and souls

John L. Allen Jr.|Sep 16, 2022|5 Min Read

Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, Prince Philip, in 2015. (Shutterstock)

Both Elizabeth II and modern popes illustrate the punch of ‘soft power’

John L. Allen Jr.|Sep 12, 2022|4 Min Read

Cardinal Roger M. Mahony, retired archbishop of Los Angeles, attends a a consistory led by Pope Francis for the creation of 20 new cardinals in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Aug. 27, 2022. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Reflections from Rome after a consistory to remember

Cardinal Roger M. Mahony|Sep 2, 2022|3 Min Read

Pope Francis meets with cardinals at the Vatican Aug. 29, 2022. The meeting was to reflect on the apostolic constitution "Praedicate evangelium" (Preach the Gospel) on the reform of the Roman Curia. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Pope’s unusual consistory raised eyebrows, mostly for what didn’t happen

John L. Allen Jr.|Sep 2, 2022|5 Min Read

Russian political scientist and ideologue Alexander Dugin delivers a speech during a memorial service for his daughter, Darya Dugina, who was killed in a car bomb attack, in this photo taken in Moscow Aug. 23, 2022. Pope Francis spoke of Dugina as an innocent victim of war, drawing a strong response from Ukrainian officials. On Aug. 30 the Vatican said the pope's comments "should be read as a voice raised in defense of human life and the values attached to it, and not as a stance on political positions." (CNS photo/Maxim Shemetov, Reuters)

Vatican says papal remarks on Dugina defended life, were not political

Junno Arocho Esteves|Aug 30, 2022|3 Min Read

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