Normally we focus on the Church in the world, but Pope Francis is really shaking up internal Church matters in a way we can’t ignore. Today Francis fired everyone on the Vatican’s financial oversight committee. Here’s a brief read out from the Associated Press: “Pope Francis has ousted the all-Italian board of the Vatican’s financial… Read More Pope Francis fires Vatican financial board

At an event hosted today by Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, Pope Francis’s advisor Cardinal Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga of Honduras confirmed that Pope Francis’s upcoming encyclical will address the environment and poverty. He said: “It is not just on global warming. …The problems are more deep.” More updates to come.

Last week, Pope Francis delivered a message to the International Labour Conference (ILO). Here are some highlights: The dignity of work “At the dawn of creation, God made man the steward of his handiwork and charged him to cultivate and protect it.  Human labour is part of that creation and continues God’s creative work.  This… Read More Pope Francis on Work, Unemployment, Mass Migration, and Solidarity

At his installation Mass as the Bishop of Rome, Pope Francis said: I would like to ask all those who have positions of responsibility in economic, political and social life, and all men and women of goodwill: let us be “protectors” of creation, protectors of God’s plan inscribed in nature, protectors of one another and… Read More Breaking News: President calls for carbon cuts

No it isn’t the Third Vatican Council that some have called for, but in fact, it’s bigger than that. Here’s a statement from the Orthodox patriarch: “[Pope Francis and I] agreed to leave as a legacy to ourselves and our successors a gathering in Nicaea in 2025, to celebrate together, after 17 centuries, the first… Read More Reports: Pope, Orthodox Patriarch plan for 2025 ecumenical council