Vatican City: Ideologies which do not acknowledge and uphold the dignity of human life must be resisted and the Catholic Church’s teaching on life affirmed, Pope Francis told a group of Catholic doctors Monday. “The Church is for life, and her concern is that nothing is against life in the realityContinue Reading
The number of priests in Brazil has increased by a tenth in just four years – from 24,600 in 2014 to 27,300 this year. The figures were obtained from the Centre for Social Investigation and Religious Statistics (Ceris), an agency of the bishops’ conference. Folha De Sao Paulo, the daily newspaperContinue Reading
Ireland: Catholics who participate in the World Meeting of Families in Dublin in August or pray with their families during the August from 21 to 26 event can receive a plenary indulgence, the Vatican announced. An indulgence is a remission of the temporal punishment a person is due for sinsContinue Reading
The minister said they discussed issues related to education sector for minoritiesContinue Reading
Rancagua: Chilean Bishop Alejandro Goić Karmelić has suspended several priests after allegations of sexual misconduct were raised against them. He apologized for not following up when the accusations were first brought to his attention. “I would like to ask forgiveness for my actions in this case,” the bishop said in aContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi: Pope Francis on May 20 named 14 new cardinals, including three from Asia. They are Archbishops Joseph Coutts of Karachi, Pakistan and Thomas Aquinas Manyo of Osaka, Japan, and Chaldean Catholic Patriarch of Babylon, Louis Raphaël I Sako. Archbishop Coutts is the president ofContinue Reading
Father Pascal Singh and his brother set up educational institutions in various parts of OdishaContinue Reading
Vatican City: The Vatican published an instruction on May 15 aimed at applying norms established in Pope Francis’ 2016 apostolic constitution on women’s contemplative orders, which emphasises the need for networks of monasteries in contemplative life. The instruction states that all monasteries of nuns must be affiliated with a federation, orContinue Reading
The President of Germany has called for the Catholic Church to allow Protestants to receive Communion. Speaking at Katholikentag, a major conference for German-speaking Catholics in Münster, Frank-Walter Steinmeier said: “Let us seek ways of expressing the common Christian faith by sharing in the Last Supper and Communion. I amContinue Reading
The Vatican has given its permission for the opening of the sainthood cause of an Iraqi priest and three deacons who were murdered by armed gunmen in Mosul. The Congregation for Saints’ Causes gave the “nihil obstat” (“no objection”), permitting a diocesan bishop to open a local inquiry into aContinue Reading