Catholic Church

Record number of Catholic priests arrested, abducted or murdered in 2023

last year 132 priests and religious were arrested, abducted or killed globally, according to latest research. belarus, china, nicaragua and ...
The Catholic Herald

Avarice and apathy: Post Office scandal reveals a loveless culture in need of Catholic virtue

the new year in the uk began with a scandal that has been described as the “worst’ or “most widespread” miscarriage of justice in british hi...
Tom Colsy

In the face of calls to abolish, the Church must remember clerical celibacy is a gift from God

there are many angles from which to analyse clerical celibacy today and the suggestions by some that it's high time to end the practice. i w...
Fr David Howell

US Bishops highlight nationwide threats to religious liberty

new york – a first-of-its-kind report from the u.s. bishops’ conference spotlights religious freedom concerns nationwide. it highlights a pa...
johnlavenburg

Italians bishops counter Pope by promoting sacked CDF secretary

italian bishops appear to have delivered a snub to pope francis by promoting a vatican official who the pope sacked months after the officia...
Simon Caldwell

Ecuadorian Catholics negotiate and pray during prison riot crisis

são paulo, brazil – one week after a drug lord escaped from prison and detonated an unprecedented crisis of violence in ecuador, local catho...
EduardoCamposLima

Prayers answered: Nicaraguan bishop imprisoned for life gains freedom, though exiled to Vatican

nicaragua has released a bishop jailed for 26 years after he stood up to the regime of president daniel ortega. bishop rolando álvarez of ma...
Simon Caldwell

Cameroon bishops denounce Boko Haram atrocities as terrorist group wages war to create African ‘Islamic caliphate’

yaoundè – catholic bishops in the west african nation of cameroon, which has been gripped by civil conflict for the past seven years, have d...
Ngala Chimton / Crux

New poll finds Pope’s unfavourable rating among Americans at all-time high

new york – a new survey conducted this past december has found that while most american adults still have a favourable view of pope francis,...
johnlavenburg

Bishop Erik Varden: Christians are called to inaugurate a new world and rise through Chrismastide

each year, we begin advent singing the introit for its first sunday: ad te levavi . it sets a verse from psalm 24: “to you have i lifted up ...
Bishop Erik Varden