Portugal
Pope gets an electrifying World Youth Day welcome and urges fighting for economic justice, climate
By Helena Alves, Barry Hatton, and Nicole Winfield — August 4, 2023
LISBON, Portugal (AP) — The pope, who was hospitalized twice this year, had said he hoped to be “rejuvenated” by his five-day trip to Portugal, and it appeared as if the sun-baked crowd delivered.
In Portugal, Pope Francis will sow seeds of his legacy
By Claire Giangravé — July 31, 2023
(RNS) — The pontiff will meet with nearly a million young Catholics for World Youth Day celebrations and share his vision for the future of the church.
Portuguese bishop says conscience clear about abuse claims
By Barry Hatton — October 12, 2022
LISBON, Portugal (AP) — The head of the Portuguese Bishops Conference, Bishop José Ornelas, denied any wrongdoing or improper conduct in the cases dating from 2011 and 2014.
When is it time to leave America?
By Jeffrey Salkin — June 28, 2022
(RNS) — We Jews have been here before, and we have learned from our history.
Chicago’s Soldier Field rolls out blue carpet for drive-in screening of movie ‘Fatima’
By Emily McFarlan Miller — July 29, 2020
CHICAGO (RNS) — ‘Just like the churches, we had to pivot, too,’ said Jeanne Berney, chief operating officer of Picturehouse Entertainment, the film’s distributor.
Pope canonizes Fatima visionaries, giving church new child saints
By Sergio Goncalves — May 13, 2017
(Reuters) Hundreds of thousands of people broke into applause as the leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics proclaimed the siblings — Francisco and Jacinta Marto — the newest of the church's saints.
Catholic nominee for UN secretary-general opposed legalization of abortion in Portugal
By guest — October 7, 2016
LISBON, Portugal (RNS) Former Socialist Prime Minister Antonio Guterres is known as a consensus seeker, but one who draws the line when it comes to his own conscience.
Could an Alabama shrine become the next Catholic pilgrimage site?
By Greg Garrison — July 17, 2012
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (RNS) Could a Virgin Mary statue under a pine tree in the middle of a cow pasture in rural Alabama one day become an officially recognized international pilgrimage site of the Roman Catholic Church? By Greg Garrison.
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