Source: World Religion News Newly appointed bishops are being instructed by the Catholic Church that they are not obligated to report any accusation related to clerical child abuse. The latest notification […]
Reuters International FEB 13, 2016 – 02:24 By Philip Pullella and Daniel Trotta HAVANA (Reuters) – Pope Francis and Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill embraced and kissed on Friday in a […]
Epigraph: O ye who believe! be strict in observing justice, and be witnesses for Allah, even though it be against yourselves or against parents and kindred. Whether he be rich […]
CANTERBURY, England (RNS) For the first time in 450 years, a citadel of Protestant worship in England — the Chapel Royal at Hampton Court Palace — echoed to the sound […]
Source: RNS (RNS) The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops announced Monday (Feb. 8) that it was starting a new National Catholic-Muslim Dialogue group, an initiative driven in part by growing anti-Islamic sentiment that many bishops have denounced. “As the national conversation around Islam grows increasingly fraught, coarse and driven by […]
Source: Time The church said Germany can’t “take in all the world’s needy” The German Catholic church has asked for a reduction in the number of refugees entering the country […]
Epigraph: All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and […]
Cardinal Reinhard Marx said the response to the migrant crisis should not solely be a matter of “charity but also reason.” Photo: DPA Published: 06 Feb 2016 The German Catholic Church called for a reduction in the influx of refugees arriving in Germany, saying the country cannot take in “all […]
Source: RNS (RNS) Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga of Honduras, a top adviser to Pope Francis, has denounced the idea of “therapeutic abortions” — which are carried out because of fetal […]
Source: The Guardian The Catholic church has remained silent in the face of the mounting crisis caused by the Zika virus in Latin America, which has led at least four […]
Source: RNS ROME (RNS) Controversy over Italy’s decision to cover nude statues during the visit of Iran’s president continued to spark debate as the leader of the Syrian Catholic Church […]
Source: The New Yorker The election of Pope Francis, in 2013, had the effect, among other things, of displacing the painful story of priestly sexual abuse that had dominated public […]
Reuters International JAN 10, 2016 – swissinfo.ch By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis calls in a new book for Roman Catholic leaders to be compassionate shepherds to a “wounded humanity”, not lofty scholars quick to condemn and exclude people who don’t obey Church teachings. The book, “The Name […]
Source: Religion News Service (RNS) The leader of the nation’s Catholic bishops on Monday (Dec. 14) denounced the backlash against Muslims and refugees in the wake of the mass shooting […]
Rosie Scammell | December 10, 2015 | 22 Comments VATICAN CITY (RNS) The Vatican has said that Catholics should witness to their faith but not undertake organized efforts to convert […]
The year was 1915, and the strange new newspaper in Aurora, Mo., had grown so quickly in its first four years that rail officials had to build extra tracks for all the paper and printing materials suddenly rolling into town. The Aurora post office, according to one account, more than […]
Source: Los Angeles Times The year was 1915, and the strange new newspaper in Aurora, Mo., had grown so quickly in its first four years that rail officials had to […]
Source: Religious News Service (RNS) The Roman Catholic Diocese of Duluth announced on Monday (Dec. 7) that it had filed for bankruptcy protection following a jury verdict last month that held the Minnesota diocese responsible for more than half of an $8.1 million judgment on behalf of a victim of […]
Source: Crux As more Americans than ever before turn to in vitro fertilization to create families, a surprising ethical question — what to do with thousands of embryos stuck in […]
Source: The Irish Times Northern Ireland’s Catholic bishops have declared themselves “profoundly shocked and disturbed” by words used by a Belfast High Court judge in a landmark abortion ruling. Mr […]