"To do everything possible to stop this humanitarian catastrophe"
What Pope Francis asked of Syrian leader Bashar Al-Assad
Statement by Secretary of State Cardinal Parolin
"A matter of grave alarm for every citizen in Northern Ireland"
Northern Irish bishops on MPs’ attempt to impose abortion and same-sex marriage on the region
Statement
"God ... brings healing – but can I be an instrument in doing that? I hope and pray I can"
Bishop Mark Brennan, who has succeeded the disgraced Bishop Bransfield in the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston
Statistic of the week
216,078
Number of German Catholics leaving the Church in 2017-18
Source: German bishops’ conference
