“There is a need for active termination of life among doctors and parents of incurably ill children, who are suffering hopelessly and unbearably and will die within the foreseeable future,” Health Minister Hugo de Jonge wrote in an Oct. 13 letter to parliament.

Judge Amy Coney Barrett of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, President Donald Trump's nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, attends the third day of her Senate confirmation hearing to the Supreme Court on Capitol Hill in Washington Oct. 14, 2020.

“Agradecemos y asumimos la valiente voz profética del Papa Francisco, expresada en Fratelli Tutti, en un mundo en el que predominan los silencios frente a las injusticias que padecen las inmensas mayorías de nuestros pueblos y que necesita resucitar en una nueva convivencia, como lo ha manifestado él mismo”.

El VII Acuerdo Adicional a la Convención para la Regulación de las Relaciones Patrimoniales entre la Santa Sede y la República de Austria fue firmado el lunes 12 de octubre en Viena.

Setenta y dos años, pullés, Monseñor Semeraro fue hasta ahora Obispo de Albano y Secretario del Consejo de Cardenales

The President of the Financial Information Authority says the aim of Saturday's amendments to Law XVIII of 2013 is to make the management of Vatican finances more transparent within a framework of intense and coordinated checks.

Pope Francis appoints Cardinal Ambongo Besungu, Archbishop of Kinshasa, as a new member of the Council of Cardinals.

Just the saint's feet are left after the statue on church property was vandalized and desecrated Oct. 12 by what Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone described as a "small, violent mob," who he hopes will be prosecuted for attacking the statue.

The public was going to be able to see the brilliantly revived frescoes of the passion of Christ as they climbed the shrine's central marble stairs that, according to tradition, are the ones Jesus ascended when Pontius Pilate brought him before the crowd and handed him over to be crucified.

Pope Francis has named Italian Bishop Marcello Semeraro of Albano, secretary of his Council of Cardinals, to be the new prefect of the Congregation for Saints' Causes.

Catholic Extension is collaborating with the Kino Border Initiative to host a demonstration of unity to support those seeking asylum in the United States CHICAGO

Pope Francis, according to the press office, told the six cardinals that while the text has not been completed and promulgated, "the reform is already underway, also in some administrative and economic aspects."

Nevertheless, Marogna denied being a "compulsive shopper," and claimed that the money was used for "diplomatic trips, payments to information sources, mediations and bank transfers to humanitarian foundations."

Scott Newgent, a 47-year-old transgender man and trans-father living in Texas, is the founder of TReVoices, a group of trans educators who oppose radical gender activism, and seek to educate politicians and families about the reality of gender dysphoria. He tweets at @ScottNewgent.

A German archdiocese said Monday that it is preparing to open the beatification cause of a member of the White Rose anti-Nazi resistance group.

Un comunicado de la Oficina de Prensa de la Santa Sede informa sobre la visita del Comité Moneyval al Estado Vaticano que ha concluido hoy. La misión comenzó el pasado 30 de septiembre y la audiencia con el Papa Francisco se celebró el 8 de octubre.

Tendrá lugar mañana, 13 de octubre, de manera virtual, la 34ª reunión del Consejo de Cardenales (C6). La anterior tuvo lugar del 17 al 19 de febrero del corriente año

A volunteer wearing a protective mask is pictured in early October preparing one of 300,000 daily meals served to the needy in Paraguay's Ciudad del Este, during the COVID-19 pandemic. With the border with Brazil closed since March, the local diocese has opened 1,300 sites to serve food to those who need help because of the pandemic and economic downturn.

“Midway along the journey of our lifeI woke to find myself in a dark wood, or I had wandered off from the straight path. How hard it is to tell what it was like, this wood of wilderness, savage and stubborn (the thought of it brings back all my old fears), a bitter place! Death could scarce be bitterer. But if I would show the good that came of it I must talk about things other than the good.” - Dante, The Divine Comedy

The Vatican has amended its transparency laws and expanded the role of its Financial Information Authority in monitoring financial transactions. (CNS photo/Remo Casilli, Reuters)