On Friday Argentine Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández presented a new set of norms for evaluating the authenticity of Marian apparitions and other spiritual phenomena, saying a ruling on the famed occurrences in Medjugorje is still in the works.
Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, entered Gaza on Thursday and reached the parish of the Holy Family for a pastoral visit.
On Friday, the Vatican rolled out a new expedited procedure for vetting alleged Marian apparitions or other spiritual phenomenon, ruling that they will no longer deemed supernatural, but simply that nothing stands in the way of encouraging devotion.
A meeting between the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church in India and Pope Francis is causing some controversy in the Eastern Rite Church.
Reversing decisions made by Archbishop Mitchell Rozanski almost a year ago, the Vatican ruled this week that it did not find just cause for the Archdiocese of St. Louis to merge three parishes and close one other as part of its restructuring plan.
A Catholic has been elected as the Lord Mayor of Westminster, the area of London that houses the British government.
