Pope Francis has changed the Catechism to say the death penalty is “inadmissible”, sparking a debate over the meaning of the word in the context of Church teaching. The Vatican announced the change to Canon 2267 on Thursday. The text now reads: Recourse to the death penalty on the partContinue Reading
Nirmala Carvalho Mumbai – One of India’s most prominent Catholic leaders has said Blessed Pope Paul VI’s document reaffirming the Church’s teaching against artificial birth control is a “great gift to the Church.” Cardinal Oswald Gracias, the archbishop of Bombay who is also president of India’s bishops’ conference, spoke aboutContinue 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
Instead of dabbling in religious matters, the commission should focus on issues concerning womenContinue Reading
Pope Francis has added an Italian teenager to the list of people he will formally recognise as saints on October 14 during the month-long meeting of the world synod of bishops on young people. During an ordinary public consistory on July 19, Pope Francis announced that he would declare BlessedContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Dublin: More than 500,000 people are to attend the Papal Mass of the forthcoming ninth World Meeting of Families (WMF) 2018 in the Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland. “For the Pastoral Congress, we will have 37,000; for the Festival of Families, we will have 77,000 people; forContinue Reading
Manama : The Church of Bahrain and the Gulf recently celebrated the formal start of the construction of the new cathedral of Our Lady of Arabia, patron saint of the Arabian Peninsula. The new place of worship, which will meet the needs of the local Christian community composed mainly ofContinue Reading
Catholic bishops in the Philippines, concerned about an increase in violence and police reaction to crime, announced a day of prayer and penance on July 16 and three days of fasting, prayer and penance on July 17-19. The bishops said they wanted to “invoke God’s mercy and justice on thoseContinue Reading
San Sebastian, Spain: Fr. Juan Pablo Aroztegi became the youngest priest in the diocese of San Sebastian, Spain, when he was ordained last weekend by Bishop José Ignacio Munilla at Good Shepherd Cathedral. According to reports , Aroztegi, began to discern his vocation after an agnostic friend asked him why heContinue Reading
