By Cindy Wooden Vatican City, June 29, 2022: Before celebrating the Holy Year 2025, Pope Francis is asking Catholics around the world to dedicate time in 2023 to studying the documents of the Second Vatican Council. Presenting the official logo for the Holy Year June 28, Archbishop Rino Fisichella alsoContinue Reading
By Nirmala Carvalho Mumbai, June 25, 2022: A Marian shrine in Mumbai joined the Global Rosary Relay for the sanctification of priests. Auxiliary Bishop John Rodrigues of Bombay, rector of Mount Mary’s Basilica in Bandra, Mumbai, who led the June 24 rally, told the congregation that Cardinal Oswald Gracias, ArchbishopContinue Reading
Manila, June 22, 2022: Radio Veritas Asia (RVA) has achieved 1 million followers on Facebook, a milestone for the Asian Bishops’ project to proclaim the Gospel to Asians. “This is a very significant record and a great milestone for the whole of RVA. We achieved this by regularly engaging withContinue Reading
By Lisa Zengarini Vatican City, June 21, 2022: Pope Francis has invited the youth of the Syro-Malabar Church to follow Jesus by saying “yes” to a life of service and responsibility, and “no” to one of superficiality and dissipation. The Pope said on June 18 during a meeting with theContinue Reading
Vatican City, June 16, 2022: Pope Francis on June 15 took another step to reign in new religious groups in the Catholic Church after their unregulated proliferation in recent decades led to abuses in governance that allowed spiritual and sexual misconduct to go unchecked. The diocesan bishop must obtain aContinue Reading
By Tola Mbakwe The Anglican Communion has announced a South Sudanese bishop will be its next Secretary General. Reverend Anthony Poggo is currently the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Adviser on Anglican Communion Affairs and the former Bishop of Kajo-Keji in the Episcopal Church of South Sudan. He will take up hisContinue Reading
Denver Newsroom, Jun 15, 2022: The 300-member Franciscan province of Saint Elisabeth in Germany has elected as its new superior Father Markus Fuhrmann, who a few weeks ago publicly came out as homosexual. In an interview with MK-Online, the official news website of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising, FuhrmannContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Agartala, June 11, 2022: Nine months of the intense synodal meetings at different levels ended June 11 with the diocesan pre-Synodal meeting in Agartala, capital of the northeastern Indian state. As many as 92 representatives of laity, catechists, women’s groups, youth religious and priests attended theContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, May 30, 2022: The Indian Theological Association and others have mourned the death of Jesuit Father Joseph Mattam, who had accompanied generations of students in their theological research. The death occurred at 9:55 pm on May 29 at the Jesuit infirmary in Jeevan Darshan,Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, May 29, 2022: Pope Francis on May 29 named 21 new cardinals, including two from India. Vatican News reports that the Pope will create the cardinals at a consistory on August 27. The new Princes of the Church represent the Church worldwide, and reflectContinue Reading