By Lydia O’Kane Vatican city, March 5, 2020: It’s two years until the next World Youth Day, which will take place in the city of Lisbon in 2022 and in that intervening time, Pope Francis is inviting young people to reflect on the themes for the diocesan World Youth DaysContinue Reading
By chhotebhai Kanpur, September 5, 2019: Does this question shock you? It should! Over the last couple of years I have been in regular correspondence with Rev Dr Valson Thampu. After retiring as principal of the prestigious St Stephen’s College, Delhi, he is now settled in Kerala. But he isContinue Reading
Vatican City, Feb. 20, 2019: Victims of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy demanded on Feb 20 to meet Pope Francis to press their call for the Church to apply a zero tolerance policy including the dismissal of bishops who covered up such offences. The 12 victims met with five VaticanContinue 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
Dublin: Thousands of people are expected to attend the World Meeting of Familes which starts in Dublin on Wednesday and culminates in an open-air mass celebrated by Pope Francis in the Phoenix Park on Sunday. The event will hear from a variety of speakers on issues such as family, homelessness, migrants and refugees, safety inContinue Reading
Pope Francis on Friday joined the chorus of shock over the car bomb slaying of Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, sending a note expressing his condolences to the overwhelmingly Catholic island nation. In a highly unusual gesture from the Vatican after the death of a private citizen, Francis wroteContinue Reading
Vatican Cit: Pope Francis called Wednesday for categoric opposition to capital punishment to be written into an update of the most important guide to Catholic teaching. His comments, which will be controversial with many fundamentalist Christians and some Catholics, came in a speech to clerics attending a conference in RomeContinue Reading
Jatta, an Italian art historian and graphic arts expert, will be the first woman in the post.Continue Reading
The pontiff made his first journey on US soil in a modest family car sending out a message of humility and possibly a foretaste of his environmental messageContinue Reading
