Pope Francis has said he opposes making priestly celibacy optional, however he may consider allowing married men to be ordained priests in remote areas. Speaking to journalists on the flight back from World Youth Day, the Pope said he would not allow optional celibacy in the Latin Church in aContinue Reading
PANAMA CITY, Panama – As was widely expected, Lisbon, Portugal has been selected to host the next World Youth Day, which is slated to take place in July 2022. “Nos vemos en Portugal,” declared Cardinal Kevin Farrell at Sunday’s closing World Youth Day Mass, the pope’s final event with pilgrims. FarrellContinue Reading
Lahore, Jan 26: A delegation of young Pakistani Catholics was prevented by government officials from flying out of the country to join the Jan. 22-27 World Youth Day in Panama. Young Pakistani Catholics who were about to fly out to join the Catholic Church’s World Youth Day (WYD) in PanamaContinue Reading
Vatican, Jan 24: The body of Carlo Acutis, the teen computer geek who used his tech skills to catalogue all the Eucharistic miracles of the world has been found to be incorrupt. The vice-postulator of the canonization , Father Marcelo Tenorio shared the news on social media on Jan 23. HeContinue Reading
New York City’s One World Trade Center’s spire was lit pink to celebrate the passing of a law that legalises abortion for any reason up to birth. The law also allows non-doctors to perform abortions and repeals a legislation recognising unborn babies over 24 weeks as potential homicide victims. NewContinue Reading
ROME – On Jan 22, Pope Francis’s longstanding love affair with the Virgin Mary was again on display when, for the staggering 67th time as Bishop of Rome, he visited the Basilica of Saint Mary Major ahead of his Jan. 23-28 visit to Panama. Not only is the sheer numberContinue Reading
Vatican, Jan 23 : Pope Francis departed on Jan 23 for Panama where he will participate in the events of the 34th World Youth Day. This marks the Pope’s first journey in 2019. The Pope departed on an Alitalia flight from Rome’s Fiumicino Airport at 9.51am (local) . Upon arrivalContinue Reading
Melbourne, Jan. 22, 2019: A Catholic Priest from Kerala has received international academic recognition. Fr. John Vayalilkarottu OFMConv. who works as an Assistant Priest at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, Springvale, in the Archdiocese of Melbourne, and who hails from Poonjar, Kottayam District, Kerala, India, received the honorary Fellowship of theContinue Reading
Syria: A copy of the icon of the Mysterious Supper – stolen from the shrine of St Sergius and Bacchus in Maalula in 2014 when the Syrian village was occupied by al-Nusra jihadists – has been placed on the ancient altar. The initiative to have a faithful copy of theContinue Reading
Vatican City, Jan 21: Pope Francis launched an app called “Click to Pray,” which connects Catholics to a global network to share prayer intentions via their smartphones. The pope opened the new app using an iPad during his Angelus address on Jan. 20 and encouraged young Catholics, in particular, toContinue Reading
