Latest Roman Catholicism News

Sorrentino's ode to Naples, 'Parthenope,' gets mixed reviews in Italy over San Gennaro sex scene

Nov. 06, 2024 11:59 AM EST

ROME (AP) — When director Paolo Sorrentino’s hit series “The Young Pope” debuted in 2016, it took the Vatican a year to grudgingly bless his imagined and occasionally blasphemous portrayal of the pope. Not so for Sorrentino’s latest film “Parthenope,” which has gotten an early thumbs...

Apple Podcasts – Top New Shows

Nov. 05, 2024 12:01 PM EST

Top New Shows (US): 1. The McShay Show, The Ringer 2. American Homicide, iHeart True Crime 3. 48 Hours: NCIS, 48 Hours 4. The Best Idea Yet, Wondery 5. Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov, Vox Media...

Spiritual, not spooky. After Halloween, Christians observe All Saints' Day

Nov. 01, 2024 17:45 PM EDT

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — It's the time of year — tradition says — when the veil between the worlds of the living and the dead is lifted. That traditional belief has morphed over the centuries into the spooky and secular celebration of Halloween. But on Friday,...

In Amharic, Karen and Spanish, worship is like home for migrants in heartland town

Oct. 31, 2024 08:16 AM EDT

WORTHINGTON, Minn. (AP) — Come noon on Sundays, overlapping worship options reflect how much Worthington has changed from a typical Midwestern farming community to a majority-minority hub with migrants from around the world. An overflow crowd is still swaying to thumping praise...

Pope Francis' Catholic church reform process ends without giving more equity to women

Oct. 26, 2024 15:48 PM EDT

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis' yearslong process to reform the Catholic Church closed Saturday with recommendations that fell short of giving women more equity as hoped, but reflected the pope’s aims for a church that at least listens more to its followers. In a significant...

Movie Review: It’s all politics at the Vatican in ‘Conclave’

Oct. 23, 2024 12:52 PM EDT

In Edward Berger’s “Conclave,” the selection of the pope is no holy affair. Instead, it’s a petty, political campaign carried out in secrecy, where gossip flows, agendas are malleable and loyalties are fleeting. All are there to serve God, they say. But we all know how helpful that has been...

Peruvian theologian the Rev. Gustavo Gutiérrez, father of influential liberation theology, has died

Oct. 23, 2024 11:52 AM EDT

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peruvian theologian the Rev. Gustavo Gutiérrez, the father of the social justice-centered liberation theology that the Vatican once criticized for its Marxist undercurrents, has died. He was 96. The Dominican Order in Peru announced on social media that the...

In annual religious pilgrimage, Panamanians crawl to reach the Black Christ of Portobelo

Oct. 22, 2024 00:07 AM EDT

PORTOBELO, Panama (AP) — At dawn, pilgrims like Ernesto Troya undertook the hardest stretch of their journey to reach the statue of the Black Christ of Portobelo in Panama. Moved by faith, they crawled for several hours along the street toward the image of the saint. It is one of...

Hundreds mourn Catholic priest and Indigenous peace activist killed in southern Mexico

Oct. 21, 2024 22:15 PM EDT

SAN ANDRES LARRAINZAR, Mexico (AP) — Hundreds gathered Monday to mourn Catholic priest Marcelo Pérez, an activist for Indigenous peoples and farm laborers who was killed in the southern Mexico state of Chiapas. It was a killing that many say was a tragedy foretold, in a state...

Catholic priest and Indigenous activist Pérez killed by 2 gunmen in southern Mexico

Oct. 20, 2024 20:29 PM EDT

TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) — Catholic priest Marcelo Pérez, an activist for Indigenous peoples and farm laborers in southern Mexico, was killed on Sunday. The prosecutors' office in the city of San Cristóbal de las Casas, in the state of Chiapas, said the religious leader was shot...