Julia Kierul

Oct 7, 2024 | thebostonpilot.com | Cindy Wooden |Julia Kierul |Maureen Crowley Heil

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis announced he would create 21 new cardinals Dec. 8, including a 99-year-old former nuncio and the 44-year-old Ukrainian bishop who heads his church's eparchy in Melbourne, Australia. The 21 cardinals-designate named by the pope Oct. 6 hail from 18 nations. Eight of the cardinals come from Europe, five from Latin America, five from Asia, two from Africa and just one from North America -- Archbishop Francis Leo of Toronto.

Oct 7, 2024 | thebostonpilot.com | Judith Sudilovsky |Julia Kierul |Maureen Crowley Heil

JERUSALEM (OSV News) -- Even though death surrounds them every day, Gaza Strip's Christian community tries to "relieve the suffering" by assisting each other with spiritual and material needs. The number of casualties and amount of destruction in Gaza since the outbreak of Israel-Hamas war on Oct.

Oct 7, 2024 | thebostonpilot.com | Justin Mclellan |Julia Kierul |Maureen Crowley Heil

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Controversy over women's ordination, even at the synod, detracts attention from the plight of women in the Catholic Church and society, said an Australian bishop, who is a member of the Synod of Bishops.

Oct 7, 2024 | thebostonpilot.com | Cindy Wooden |Julia Kierul |Maureen Crowley Heil

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- At the end of a multiyear process of listening, praying, discussing and discerning, Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin of Newark, New Jersey, said he hopes the Synod of Bishops can give Catholics four practical suggestions for being a more "synodal" church. "What four things? I can't tell you right now, but I sure wish we could give four pieces of guidance to the people of God across the world," the cardinal told Catholic News Service Oct. 4.

Oct 7, 2024 | thebostonpilot.com | Tom Tracy |Julia Kierul |Maureen Crowley Heil

MIAMI (OSV News) -- Hurricane Helene's broad impact across an entire swath of the U.S. South means resources will be stretched thin following the massive storm, according to Peter Routsis-Arroyo, the CEO of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Miami. Helene garnered Category 4 major hurricane status just before landfall along the Florida Panhandle Sept 26, 2024.