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April 26, 2021 CWN Editor's Note: Pope Francis has quietly added lay Catholics to the newly created Vatican dicasteries for Integral Human Development, Communications, and Laity, Family and Life. Ordinarily only cardinals and bishops are appointed to the Vatican congregations, but canon law allows for lay members “according to the peculiar nature of some dicasteries.” However, while the appointments of bishops have been announced by the Vatican, the appointments of lay members have not been announced; their names simply appear in the pontifical yearbook, the Annuario Pontificio. The abo...

A man receives a vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at the Masaka hospital in Kigali, Rwanda, March 5, 2021. (CNS photo/Jean Bizimana, Reuters) Two problems have stymied efforts to get more people vaccinated against Covid-19 worldwide: Vaccine skepticism and vaccine scarcity. A coalition of 42 Catholic domestic and international health care providers and development and relief agencies was launched this month to address both of those challenges. The coalition will confront misinformation here in the United States and supply worries overseas, where poor nations so far have only...

April 07, 2021 CWN Editor's Note: In a message for World Health Day, April 7, the Vatican’s dicastery for Integral Human Development argues that health care is a matter of justice. “Health inequalities are unfair,” says the document, “but they are also preventable through strategies that aim to ensure equal access to health care.” The document is signed by Cardinal Peter Turkson, the prefect of the dicastery. The above note supplements, highlights, or corrects details in the original source (link above). About CWN news coverage.   Sound Off! CatholicCulture.org supporters weigh in...

Iraq: An overview of the Church and of the country's Christian communities Pope Francis is to undertake the first-ever apostolic journey to Iraq from 5 to 8 March. We offer an overview of the nation's ancientand diverse Christian communities, of their plight and of their challenges. By Lisa Zengarini Christianity has been in Iraq from its earliest times, as the Acts of the Apostles testify. Its origins go back to the preaching of St Thomas the Apostle and his disciples Addai and Mari in the first century A.D., which extended to East Asia. Iraq is therefore, biblically and historically, an i...

Pope Francis on Monday joined survivors of human trafficking, religious sisters and cardinals in a day of prayer against modern day slavery, calling for a “courageous economy” with market rules that promote justice and bans human trafficking.