Canada to invite Pope to personally apologize for abuse
2018-05-02
The House of Commons passed the motion 269-10Continue Reading
Teen arrested over ‘satanist’ attack on UK Catholic church
2018-04-08
Police have arrested a 17-year-old youth after a church in Great Yarmouth in the east coast of England was attacked and desecrated. CCTV footage showed a man setting small fires in St Mary’s Catholic Church in Regent Road, Great Yarmouth, then attempting to burn an icon he took from theContinue Reading
Former South Vietnamese prime minister receives baptism in the Catholic Church
2018-04-04
Tran Thien Khiem, a former general and prime minister of the Republic of (South) Vietnam, received the baptism in California (United States). The ceremony ended decades of rumours according to which he was Christian during the Vietnam War, which ended with the defeat of the South. On 25 March, PalmContinue Reading
Church survey says more Filipinos approve of divorce
2018-03-23
Radio Veritas survey reveal 39 percent respondents strongly agree with the proposed measure
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Organ harvesting: Church to protest action on accused NGO
2018-03-06
The Tamil Nadu Bishops’ Council has called its people to protestContinue Reading
Flu outbreak prompts handshake ban in Northern Ireland churches
2018-01-09
Catholic diocese of Down and Connor in Northern Ireland has suspended the “sign of peace” handshake in its masses due to the risk of infection from a strain of the flu first seen in Australia in the southern hemisphere’s 2017 winter. At least 170,000 cases were confirmed at the end of theContinue Reading
Magazine forced to withdraw story on Church land scam
2018-01-08
New Delhi: Indian Currents, a 21-year-old publication by Catholic Church has withdrawn its cover story ‘Cardinal Sin’ “under obedience” by its chief editor Dr Suresh Mathew. They had probed the land dealings by their internal team against Cardinal Mar Alencherry, the major archbishop of Syro-Malabar church. Indian Currents is aContinue Reading
Ockhi: Church questions official figures
2017-12-08
The government puts the figure at 92, the church says over 200 Continue Reading
Catholic Church grows in secular Sweden
2017-12-08
Rome: Even though it is one of the most secularized nations in the world, Sweden is one of the few countries in Europe where the Catholic Church is growing, said the country’s first cardinal. This kind of revival shows “it is possible to live a good life as a churchContinue Reading
Married priests and missionary failure
2017-11-16
Father Raymond J. de Souza It is not quite right to say that married priests are coming to the Catholic Church — they have been here for quite some time. But recent decisions by Pope Francis mean that something new is almost certainly coming in a few years — theContinue Reading