Catholic Church

Profile: Pro-life Catholic Andrew Scheer elected Canadian Conservative leader

Scheer describes himself as pro-life and says he will allow backbench MPs to bring forward legislation on the issue

Canadian prime minister Trudeau says he asked Pope to apologise for residential schools

Trudeau told reporters he invited the pope to go to Canada "in the coming years," but added no further details about such a trip

Catholic News Service

The synod dominated by heretics and eccentrics with bad ideas

The Church is a family; in every family there are eccentric uncles and peculiar cousins like Leopold and Ricci who, we all feel, are best forgotten

Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith

Priest criticises parents who reduce First Communion to 'orgy of materialism with miniature brides'

Fr Paddy O’Kane said many children never return to Mass the following Sunday

Polish prime minister's son to celebrate first Mass

On the feast of Pentecost, he will celebrate Mass in the Extraordinary Form

ISIS claims responsibility for massacre of Coptic Christians in Egypt

Hours after Friday's attack, President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi announced that Egypt had launched airstrikes against militant training bases in Libya

Associated Press

Pope Francis names Rome auxiliary bishop as vicar of the city

Archbishop Angelo De Donatis is a well-known spiritual director who led Francis's Lenten retreat in 2014

Coptic Christians massacred by gunmen in Egypt

Reports say 26 Coptic pilgrims were killed while travelling to a monastery

Associated Press

Cardinal Nichols blesses crucifix that survived ISIS

The crucifix was found in the rubble outside a church in the Nineveh Plains

Murcadha O'Flaherty

ISIS-linked militants 'threaten to behead priest and churchgoers'

The Philippines Islamists reportedly warned a bishop they would kill their hostages unless the military called off its offensive