The Vatican Congregation, on Tuesday February 5, recognized the healing of an unborn child. Francis’ final decision and announcement of canonization day is the last step, probably in October.

Paul VI will be canonized soon. The meeting of the bishops and cardinals of the Congregation of Saints unanimously approved the recognition of a miracle attributed to the intercession of Giovanni Battista Montini. Now what is missing is Francis’ approval and the announcement of the date for the canonization of the Pontiff from Brescia who died in Castel Gandolfo forty years ago.

Promotion of peace and stability in the region, reception of refugees and conditions of the Catholics in Turkey among the addressed issues. Francis gives the president a medallion of “an angel of peace chocking the demon of war”.

Today, Monday, February 5, the much-wanted audience by the Turkish President, around which his trip to Italy

On 23 February an event dedicated to the people of South Sudan and Congo. Appeal for life, “There are few people who fight for it in a world where weapons are produced every day and the “culture of waste” goes on”.

Francis met on Friday, February 2, with the participants in a conference on ways of combating religious violence. Chaldean patriarch Sako, “In Iraq, churches and mosques are attacked”

For anyone who knows Cardinal Joseph Zen, the 86-year-old “Lion in Winter” of Chinese Catholicism, it will be no surprise that he recently took to Facebook to accuse the Vatican of “selling out” the Church in China by reportedly asking for the resignations of two underground bishops in order to make way for government-appointed candidates.

Zen has a long history of advocating for a harder line from Rome on China’s Communist authorities and their efforts to exercise control over the Church, especially in the selection of bishops.

Interview with the Secretary of State who responds to the accusations made against the Holy See regarding the ongoing contacts, “We trust that the Chinese faithful, thanks to their spirit of faith, will know how to recognize that our action is animated by trust in the Lord and does not answer to worldly logic”.

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The document “Veritatis Gaudium” insists on open-confrontation in all fields, on interdisciplinarity, and asks ecclesiastical universities to network and build” “leadership capable of striking out on new paths” for “changing the models of global development”.

Nowadays, it is likely that all of us know at least someone, if not multiple persons, who have had their lives affected by cancer. For Anthony Maranise, author of the new book, Cross of a Different Kind: Cancer & Christian Spirituality, this is certainly true. Maranise, now in his twentieth year of remission from acute lymphoblastic leukemia, was diagnosed, treated, and cured at St Jude Children's Research Hospital, a worldwide leader in pediatric cancer and catastrophic disease research and treatment, located in the Southern United States from October 1994 to April 1997.

Pope Francis receives the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith which, among other things, is about to conclude a study on the ethical implications “in the economic-financial field”.