Dublin: Thousands of people are expected to attend the World Meeting of Familes which starts in Dublin on Wednesday and culminates in an open-air mass celebrated by Pope Francis in the Phoenix Park on Sunday. The event will hear from a variety of speakers on issues such as family, homelessness, migrants and refugees, safety inContinue Reading

A 16-year-old peasant girl will be beatified as a martyr in Slovakia, seven decades after she was shot in front of her family for resisting rape by a drunken Soviet soldier. Anna Kolesarova “embodies the faithful layperson living in their family, regularly receiving sacraments, praying the rosary and approaching GodContinue Reading

By Matters India Reporter Simdega: Bishop Emeritus of Simdega diocese Joseph Minj (85), Jharkhand, passed away on 16 August 2018 at 7.30am at Shanti Bhawan Medical Centre Biru, Simdega. He was 85. The funeral will be on 17 August 2018 at 11 am at St. Anne Cathedral, Samtoli, Simdega. Bishop MinjContinue Reading

ROME :  Revelations that a prominent U.S. cardinal sexually abused and harassed his adult seminarians have exposed an egregious abuse of power that has shocked Catholics on both sides of the Atlantic. But the Vatican has long been aware of its heterosexual equivalent – the sexual abuse of nuns byContinue Reading

Pope Francis has accepted the resignation from the College of Cardinals of Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, retired Archbishop of Washington, and has ordered him to maintain “a life of prayer and penance” until a canonical trial examines accusations that he sexually abused minors. The Vatican press office said that the previousContinue Reading