Paris: More than 40 Catholic institutions are to announce the largest ever faith-based divestment from fossil fuels, on the anniversary of the death of St Francis of Assisi on October 3. The sum involved has not been disclosed but the volume of divesting groups is four times higher than a previousContinue Reading
By Alvaro de Juana Rome: Three years ago, there were 73 nuns with the Dominican Sisters of Saint Catherine of Siena living in Kurdistan. Since the Islamic State captured the Plain of Nineveh in 2014, one-third of them have died. Sister Silvia is one of the survivors. Surrounded by devastation,Continue Reading
Pope Francis has expressed his “spiritual closeness” to victims of the deadly shooting in Las Vegas, which left more than fifty people dead, and hundreds more wounded. In the telegram addressed to the Bishop Joseph Anthony Pepe of Las Vegas, the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, said PopeContinue Reading
A young Pakistani Christian woman who travelled to Australia for surgery, after she was seriously injured in a twin suicide bombing at her church in Peshawar in 2013, says that three years on “countries in the West still fail to recognise the persecution of Christians in Pakistan”. Kashmala Munawar wasContinue Reading
Witnesses heard numerous gunshots at the Mandalay Bay casino hotel Continue Reading
The Irish heritage of many Scots lies behind a trend that will see Catholicism become the most popular religion in the country by 2024, pre-eminent historian Sir Tom Devine has said. The renowned academic explained that the Catholic Church in Scotland has seen congregations drop at a slower rate than their counterpartsContinue Reading
Pope Francis will focus on the harmful effects of fake news against journalism for peace, in his message for peace for World Communications Day next year. ““The truth will set you free” (Jn 8:32). Fake news and journalism for peace,” is the theme of the annual Catholic Church observance thatContinue Reading
More than 60 Rohingya refugees are feared dead after a boat carrying them from Myanmar capsized, leaving distraught relatives to hold burials on Friday in Bangladesh camps that the Red Cross says are tipping into a health crisis. Half a million Rohingya have crushed into camps in Bangladesh in justContinue Reading
By Mark Brolly Sydney: A Vietnamese Australian Catholic bishop has warned that the model of an exalted, separate and elitist priesthood was “drawing its last breaths.” “We bear the brunt of public anger and distrust in the wake of the sexual abuse crisis,” Bishop Vincent Long Van Nguyen of ParramattaContinue Reading
By James T. Keane The death on September 26 of Hugh Hefner, founder of Playboy magazine and often recognized as an icon of the sexual revolution, occasioned much commentary on the role of Hefner and his magazine in the changing mores of American culture since that magazine’s founding in 1953.Continue Reading
