Warsaw: As Poland’s Catholic Church prepares to celebrate 1,050 years as the national faith, a call by its bishops for a total ban on abortion has embroiled the church in a divisive and potentially harmful debate. The church that was crucial in preserving the nation’s spirit and identity in WorldContinue Reading
The Church in Madhya Pradesh is collecting contact details of priests and nuns skilled in counselingContinue Reading
From 2005-2014, the number of Catholics grew from 1.12 billion to 1.27 billion.Continue Reading
Thousands of protesters have demonstrated in Naples in an attempt to prevent the Catholic Church gaining control over a highly valuable collection of jewels belonging to a local saint. Paolo Jorio, director of the San Gennaro museum where the collection is kept, said: “We’re protecting a centuries-old institution, we willContinue Reading
A series of essays in the semiofficial Vatican newspaper is urging the Catholic Church to allow women to preach from the pulpit at Mass, a role that has been reserved almost exclusively to the all-male priesthood for nearly 800 years. “This topic is a delicate one, but I believe itContinue Reading
The leader of the worldwide Catholic Church, Pope Francis, will play himself in the new film from AMBI Pictures, Beyond the Sun. This is the first time in the history of the Church that any Pope has made a film debut. The film is a family adventure story based onContinue Reading
Bengaluru: In a path-breaking initiative, the Catholic Church has embarked on a mission to identify, nurture and promote young talents for leadership roles in society in diverse fields such as civil services, professionals, media and fine arts as well as entrepreneurs and even political life through Career Advance Programme (CAP)Continue Reading
Kochi: The Kerala Catholic Bishop Council (KCBC), the powerful body of the Catholic Church in the state, will hold a series of meetings with various stakeholders in the political and social life of Kerala in the next two weeks to decide its strategy ahead of the Assembly elections likely toContinue Reading
Rajnath Singh will be the chief guest at the annual Christmas dinner of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India on December 17Continue Reading
Roman Catholics are rapidly increasing in larger cities across China, but efforts to train more priests have been held back by the lack of applicants for seminaries, according to the Shanghai-based China Daily newspaper. Zou Yunlong, a 32-year-old student at the National Seminary of the Catholic Church in Beijing, toldContinue Reading
