Claire Giangravé
Claire Giangravé is an author at Religion News Service.
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Head of Catholic order for the Holy Land calls for a ‘just peace’
By Claire Giangravé — March 15, 2024
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — As skepticism of brokering peace in the Holy Land grows, Cardinal Fernando Filoni insisted coexistence is still possible.
Vatican puts the brakes on Synod on Synodality, pushes ‘controversial’ topics to 2025
By Claire Giangravé — March 14, 2024
(RNS) — Women deacons, priestly formation and other contentious questions won’t be a part of the next synod in October.
Pope Francis tells Ukraine that there is ‘no shame in negotiating’
By Claire Giangravé — March 11, 2024
(RNS) — The pope’s words were met with outrage by Ukrainian political and religious leaders, while the Vatican scrambled to clarify the comments.
‘In the name of the Mother, Daughter and Holy Spirit’: Catholic women advocate change
By Claire Giangravé — March 7, 2024
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Women meeting in Rome this week to promote female leadership in the Catholic Church are challenging the hierarchy’s resistance to change and its theological emphasis on ‘natural’ gender divisions.
In a letter, anonymous prelates criticize Pope Francis as ‘autocratic, vindictive’
By Claire Giangravé — March 1, 2024
(RNS) — While Pope Francis has been struggling with health issues, his opposers outline who should be his successor.
Catholic women working to change the church take inspiration from female saints
By Claire Giangravé — February 28, 2024
(RNS) — A network of leading female scholars and experts looking for ways to promote women’s standing in the church says the key is to embrace femininity.
Nuns alleging abuse by former Jesuit Marko Rupnik plead with Francis for investigation
By Claire Giangravé — February 21, 2024
(RNS) — Disgraced Jesuit and famed artist Marko Rupnik is accused of abusing 20 of the 41 women in the religious community he founded.
Ex-Catholics in Rome reconnect with roots, spirituality in paganism
By Claire Giangravé — February 21, 2024
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — As Romans search for alternatives to Catholicism, some have turned to Jupiter, Minerva and Juno.
St. Valentine’s hometown strikes a balance between Ash Wednesday and Valentine’s Day
By Claire Giangravé — February 14, 2024
TERNI, Italy (RNS) — The hometown of the saint of love found a compromise between Valentine’s Day and Ash Wednesday.
Sex is ‘divine’: How Pope Francis is recasting Catholic Church’s views on intimacy
By Claire Giangravé — February 12, 2024
(RNS) — A book on sexuality by the Vatican’s doctrinal chief may have raised eyebrows, but Pope Francis has long been calling for the church to offer more robust teaching on sex.
Celebration of lay Catholics of Sant’Egidio highlights group’s growing influence
By Claire Giangravé — February 9, 2024
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Members of the lay movement have been handpicked by Pope Francis to aid him at the Vatican.
First Argentine saint brings Pope Francis and Milei together
By Claire Giangravé — February 8, 2024
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — The right-wing President Javier Milei, who has called Pope Francis an ‘imbecile’ in the past, will meet the pope on Monday.
Antisemitism is a sin against God, Pope Francis says, as hate crimes surge
By Claire Giangravé — February 5, 2024
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In a letter addressed to Jews in Israel, Pope Francis called for an end to the violence and war in the Holy Land.
Pope Francis says ‘everyone will calm down’ about same-sex blessings
By Claire Giangravé — January 30, 2024
(RNS) — The declaration allowing the blessing of same-sex couples 'wishes to include, not divide,' the pope said.
Pope Francis’ synod made few waves, but organizers say it’s already changing the church
By Claire Giangravé — January 25, 2024
(RNS) — The controversy over blessing gay couples is just another example of synodality at work, according to Sr. Nathalie Becquart.
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