Новости за 17.02.2021

VATICAN CITY — As the COVID-19 pandemic nears its first full year, the Vatican Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments reminded bishops that the guidelines it issued last year for celebrating the Holy Week and Easter liturgies would still be valid this year. Local bishops still must decide the

In his first speech to lawmakers Feb. 17, Italy's new prime minister Mario Draghi, cited Pope Francis' words regarding humanity's failure in caring for the environment.

Kicking off the liturgical season of Lent, Pope Francis Wednesday said the next 40 days ought to be a time of conversion in which Christians let go of their vices and the things holding them back, and return to the source of healing and love, which is Christ.

Pope Francis hopes to embark on the first-ever papal visit to the biblical land of Iraq in March 5-8 in a spiritual pilgrimage to the place known in Arabic as the "land of the two rivers" and once renowned as Mesopotamia, the "cradle of civilization."