Vatican praises US court abortion decision, saying it challenges world
Vatican CityReuters The Vatican’s Academy for Life on Friday praised the US Supreme Court’s decision on abortion, saying it challenged the world to reflect on life issues, but also called for social changes to help women keep their children. The Vatican department also said in a statement that the defence of human life could not […]
Vatican archbishop to bring Pope Francis’ take on being pro-life to the United States
Vatican City RNS Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, who heads the Vatican’s thinktank on life issues, arrived in New York on Monday hoping to disarm Americans’ well-defended positions on the topic by talking about what it means to be pro-life in the Catholic Church today. “Sometimes, in the United States, but not only there, the pro-life perspective […]
The Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for Life takes on vaccine sceptics on social media
Vatican CityRNS In a tweet laden with backstory and pointed frustration, the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for Life defended the COVID-19 vaccine and called out those who spread “malinformation” to discredit the vaccine as peddling “pure nonsense”. The Pontifical Academy for Life, the Vatican’s thinktank dedicated to protecting life from conception to natural death, took to […]
World’s children bearing brunt of COVID pandemic, Vatican studies say
Vatican CityReuters The world’s children are bearing the brunt of the COVID-19 pandemic, with marked increases in violence, abuse, child labour, lost schooling, and malnutrition, two Vatican studies said on Wednesday. The studies, based on academic, scientific, United Nations data and other source material, were produced by the Vatican’s development office and the Pontifical Academy […]
Amid global vaccine inequality, Vatican weighs ethics of booster shots
Vatican CityRNS While Catholic US President Joe Biden received his third shot of the COVID-19 vaccine, experts at the Vatican on Tuesday considered the ethics of such “booster shot” distribution in wealthy countries when many in other parts of the world have yet to receive the first dose. Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, who heads the Pontifical […]
Vatican seeks all-out effort to combat vaccine hesitancy
Rome, ItalyAP The Vatican’s bioethics academy and the World Medical Association on Friday called for an all-out effort to combat vaccine hesitancy and correct the “myths and disinformation” that are slowing the fight against the coronavirus. In a joint statement, the groups said some vaccine reluctance in poorer countries is rooted in historical inequalities and […]
A NIGHT TO SHINE: TIM TEBOW AND THE VATICAN JOIN FORCES TO GIVE DISABLED AN EPIC PROM NIGHT
CLAIRE GIANGRAVÉ, of Religion News Service, reports from Rome where a prom with a difference was held this week…
VATICAN: ARCHBISHOP’S REMARKS ON ASSISTED SUICIDE STIR CULTURE WAR SKIRMISH
CLAIRE GIANGRAVÉ, writing for Religion News Services, reports from Rome…