Catholic Church

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...

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...

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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...

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...

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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,...

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 ...

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Disgraced former cardinal Theodore McCarrick deemed not competent to stand trial in abuse case

new york – a wisconsin judge on 10 january suspended a sexual assault case against theodore mccarrick after a court-appointed psychologist f...

What are we to make of the exotic and sensually esoteric theology of Cardinal Fernández?

the exotic contents of  mystical passion: spirituality and sensuality  written 25 years ago by now-cardinal víctor manuel fer...

French Bishops’ Conference backs Fiducia Supplicans and its 'generosity'

rome – days after nine french prelates announced they would not authorise to blessings to same-sex couples as requested by the recent vatica...

US criticised for not addressing mounting 'genocide’ against Christians during bloody ‘Islamisation’ of Nigeria

yaoundè, cameroon – with nigerians sounding alarms over what some describe as a mounting “genocide” against christians in africa’s most popu...

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