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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 533

Roman Catholic Church

Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Pierbattista Pizzaballa (C) poses for a picture with people and children at the Holy Family Church in the Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza City on December 22, 2024. (Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP)
December 24, 2024, 2:38 pm
Latin patriarch visits Catholic community in Gaza for second time since war’s start
Pierbattista Pizzaballa visits Holy Family parish in Gaza City, home to some 400 sheltering Christians, for an early Christmas Mass; reports worse conditions than he saw in May
By ToI Staff
French performers are seen riffing on Leonardo Da Vinci's painting of the Last Supper, in this screen capture from the opening of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. (Screen capture via YouTube, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
July 28, 2024, 4:44 pm
Olympic ceremony’s ‘Last Supper’ sketch meant no disrespect, says Paris 2024
Segment featuring drag queens, transgender model and naked singer made up as Greek god of wine Dionysus drew dismay from Catholic Church and religious right in America
By Karolos Grohmann
Pope Francis, left, embraces Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI, at the Vatican, June 28, 2017. (L'Osservatore Romano/Pool Photo via AP)
December 31, 2022, 9:49 pm
Pope Francis to lead ‘solemn but simple’ funeral for ex-pontiff Benedict
Burial on Thursday morning to be first in modern history where sitting pope leads procession for predecessor
By Ella Ide
File: In this May 28, 2006 photo, then-pope Benedict XVI walks through the gate of the former Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz in Oswiecim, Poland. (AP Photo/Diether Endlicher, File)
December 31, 2022, 12:19 pm
Former pope Benedict XVI, the first pontiff to resign in 600 years, dies at 95
Catholic leader who spectacularly stepped down in 2013, dies at Vatican; former member of Hitler Youth decried horrors of Holocaust but pushed for beatification of Pope Pius XII
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden waves to media as he leaves St. Joseph On the Brandywine Catholic Church after attending Mass in Wilmington, Delaware, Sept. 6, 2020. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
October 19, 2020, 8:48 am
A practicing Catholic, Biden hopes to peel believers away from Trump
Former VP determined not to cede religious voters to Republicans; 6 in 10 white Catholics backed Trump in 2016, while nearly 7 in 10 Hispanic Catholics voted for Clinton
By Elodie Cuzin
Notre Dame Cathedral rector Jean-Marc Chauvet enters the security perimeter to Notre Dame, April 18, 2019 in Paris. (AP/Michel Euler, Pool)
April 18, 2019, 9:36 pm
Electrical short-circuit likely caused Notre Dame fire, police say
Expert says iconic cathedral would have burned to the ground in a ‘chain-reaction collapse’ had firefighters not moved rapidly
By Elaine Ganley and Sylvie Corbet
Protesters hold placards outside the County Court to hear the sentencing of Cardinal George Pell in Melbourne on March 13, 2019. - Disgraced Australian Cardinal George Pell was sentenced to six years in jail for child sex crimes in a Melbourne court on March 13 with a minimum period of three years and eight months to be served. (William WEST / AFP)
March 13, 2019, 5:15 am
Top Catholic Cardinal Pell sentenced to six years for choirboy abuse
77-year-old Australian is most senior member of clergy to be convicted of historical child sex abuse; judge slams ‘brazen’ attack and ‘grave’ abuse of power
By Erin HANDLEY
Pope Francis is welcomed by Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, upon his arrival at the Abu Dhabi airport, United Arab Emirates, on February 3, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, Pool)
February 3, 2019, 11:16 pm
Pope Francis arrives in UAE for historic trip to Gulf
Pontiff makes first-ever trip to Arabian peninsula, calling for Yemen relief and seeking to improve Christian-Muslim ties in Abu Dhabi
By Nicole Winfield
Bishop Richard Williamson, second from left in foreground, is escorted out of Heathrow airport by police and security officers after arriving on a flight from Argentina, in London, Feb. 25, 2009 (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
January 31, 2019, 3:32 pm
European court backs Germany on British bishop’s Holocaust denial conviction
Defense lawyers said Richard Williamson was innocent because his comment denying Nazi use of gas chambers aired on Swedish TV, where Holocaust denial is not illegal
By AFP
In this Sunday, Jan. 20, 2019 photo, parishioners pray during Mass at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)
January 31, 2019, 10:06 am
Diverse, international flock awaits Pope Francis’ UAE trip
Crosses are carefully concealed in the seven sheikhdoms, but the Catholic Church believes there are some 1 million adherents there, drawn from the vast foreign labor force
By Jon Gambrell
A general view shows Rabin Square as Israeli Arabs and their supporters protest against the nation-state Law' in Tel Aviv on August 11, 2018. (AFP/ Ahmad GHARABLI)
November 5, 2018, 11:31 am
Churchmen in Israel seek repeal of Jewish nation state law
Senior Catholic clerics issue statement declaring ‘Christians, Muslims, Druze, Baha’i and Jews demand to be treated as equal citizens’
By AFP and ToI Staff
In this Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2010 file photo, Archbishop Donald Wuerl prays as he celebrates Mass at the Cathedral of Saint Matthew the Apostle in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
October 12, 2018, 11:40 pm
Pope accepts resignation of Washington DC cardinal amid sex-abuse scandal
Cardinal Donald Wuerl is accused of helping to protect some child-molesting priests while he was bishop of Pittsburgh; critics say move not enough
By CLAUDIA LAUER, Nicole Winfield and David Crary
The head of the Roman Catholic Church in the Holy Land, Apostolic Administrator of the Latin Patriarchate Pierbattista Pizaballa leads the Easter Sunday procession, on April 1, 2018, at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (AFP PHOTO / GALI TIBBON)
July 31, 2018, 12:35 am
Catholic Church in Jerusalem slams nation-state law, urges Christians to protest
Holy Land Latin Patriarchate says the legislation violates UN resolution that led to Israel’s founding, as well as Declaration of Independence
By ToI Staff
A voter prepares his ballot paper at the Marlborough Street National School polling station in Dublin, Ireland on May 25, 2018, during the Irish referendum on liberalizing the abortion law. (AFP PHOTO / BARRY CRONIN)
May 26, 2018, 3:54 am
Ireland tipped to repeal abortion ban by a landslide
Exit polls indicate voters overwhelmingly support liberalizing strict pregnancy termination laws in the conservative Catholic country
By Robin MILLARD
Pope Paul VI, circa 1963 (Wikimedia Commons, public domain)
May 21, 2018, 9:42 pm
Vatican announces sainthood for Pope Paul VI in October
First pontiff to visit Israel and begin dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Jewish world to be canonized
By JTA
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