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Commission to focus report on abuse survivors and reparations
After concluding its five-day plenary in Poland, the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors is set to release its second annual report focusing on survivors of abuse and the concept of reparations. Source: NCR Online.
Pope allows banks outside Vatican to manage Holy See investments
Pope Leo XIV has permitted the Holy See’s main financial body to use financial institutions outside the Vatican for its investment activities, reversing Pope Francis’s 2022 instruction to move all funds to the so-called Vatican bank. Source: CNA.
Pope chooses theme for World Day of the Sick
Loving someone who is sick requires “concrete gestures of closeness”, just like that shown in the Gospel story of the Samaritan who helps the person beaten by thieves, the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development says. Source: CNS.
Pope calls on European institutions to promote ‘healthy secularism’
“European institutions need people who know how to live a healthy secularism,” Pope Leo XIV told members of a European Parliament working group on interreligious dialogue yesterday. Source: Vatican News.
Pope makes his first major Vatican appointment
In the first major appointment of his papacy, Pope Leo XIV has chosen an Italian expert in canon law to succeed him as prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops and president of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America. Source: CNS.
King Charles to make state visit to Vatican next month
King Charles III and Queen Camilla will travel to the Vatican for a state visit next month, Buckingham Palace has announced. Source: Catholic Herald.
Vatican minister appeals for women’s dignity, equality
The Vatican’s foreign minister yesterday reaffirmed before the United Nations the Holy See’s commitment to promoting the dignity and equality of women, but warned that these goals cannot be achieved without respecting dignity “from the unborn to the elderly”. Source: CNA.
People with disabilities will be hired to work in Vatican
Pope Leo XIV has approved new measures to promote the hiring of people with disabilities in the Vatican, saying their condition does not prevent them from serving in Church institutions. Source: CNA.
Vatican ‘appalled’ by Israel’s deadly strike on Gaza hospital
Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin said the Holy See is “appalled by what is happening in Gaza” after an Israeli strike on a hospital in southern Gaza killed 20 people, including five journalists. Source: Vatican News.