Category: Christian World
(Curtsy – Catholic Herald, UK) In his general audience, Francis continued his series of talks about the family in anticipation of September's celebration of the World Meeting of Families. Families need moments of rest and celebration, Pope Francis has said...
(Curtsy – Catholic Herald) Faithful urged to take extra measures by the Interior Ministry and the bishops' conference. Catholic churches in France have been placed under police protection and urged to take extra security measures against possible Islamist attacks before...
Curtsy THE LAITYTUDE. Ref. Article: Bishop’s Sin of Apostasy: In India: https://frconrad.wordpress.com/2015/07/18/bishops-sin-of-apostasy-in-india/ There have been quite a few who have written to me positively about the articles written to expose the insidious act and agenda of the Bishop of Poona and the...
The Pope’s spokesman says he is ‘confused’. Few understand this pontificate: but it’s the Church that saves us (Report from Catholic Herald). This Pope doesn’t ‘do’ doctrine. His particular vocation as Supreme Pontiff may not be established for many years. If...
Archbishop Nichols may sue Times; Catholic Herald warns 'biased' paper that Catholics will not support its paywall. Damian Thompson reviews a top news item in Catholic Herald (Curtsy – The Telegraph) Damian Thompson is Editor of Telegraph Blogs and a columnist for...
In the picture: a Chinese ordination. Story: UCAN – Beijing tightening its control over Church, Catholic officials say. Two excommunicated illicit bishops in China have ordained priests in separate ceremonies during the past two months. Catholic leaders expressed concern over...
Philadelphia, Pa., Aug 10, 2015 / 04:58 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Although Pope Francis will be new to the United States, visiting the country this autumn for the first time during his papacy, he will be well-seasoned in American history. Officially...
(UCAN) Religious leaders in India have welcomed a government move to ban pornographic websites, but some also caution against a blanket ban that they say intrudes on personal freedom. The free and uncontrolled access to pornographic sites has done irreparable...
(Matters India) Dozens of kidnapped Arab Christians have been ransomed, tortured, beheaded and killed over the past year, including a priest who was chopped into pieces, in attempts to raise funds for radical Islamic terror groups and to strike fear...
August 12, (MEMORIAL OF ST. JANE FRANCES DE CHANTAL) Jane Frances was wife, mother, nun and founder of a religious community. Her mother died when Jane was 18 months old, and her father, head of parliament at Dijon, France, became...
Pope Francis greets Archbishop Blase Cupich of Chicago after a Mass marking the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican June 29. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) By David Gibson Religion News Service | Aug. 10,...
The picture above: Pope Francis and Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of Manila arrive to celebrate Mass in Manila, Philippines, Jan. 16. At the first pan-Asian conference of Catholic moral theologians, Tagle said July 20 that Francis sees the future of...
Godmen-and-Women Have Become a Shame Editorial in The New Indian Express,12th August 2015 (The BIG question is whether there is much difference between God men in secular society and in various churches. In the Catholic church they exhibit their...
(In the pic: Protesters demand rights for dalit Christians and Muslims outside the Sacred Heart Cathedral in New Delhi, on August 10. (Photo by Ritu Sharma) Denying quotas in government jobs, education is religious discrimination, protesters say. John Dayal (UCAN)...
(In the pic:Bishop-elect Basil Bhuriya of Jhabua was named bishop July 18. The date of his ordination has not been announced.) Jhabua (UCAN):A newly appointed bishop in central India says his biggest challenge is to help Catholics in his diocese...
The German bishops have declared independence from Rome on same-sex marriage: how far will the rot spread now? (William Oddie in Catholic Herald – posted Thursday, 6 Aug 2015) Are we witnessing the beginnings of an international campaign of defiance against the Catholic moral...
On 15 August 2015 India celebrates her 69th year of Independence from the British rule. This coincides with one important news in the Herald (August 7-13): – Crucial Inauguration of the Pastoral Plan in all 57 parishes and stations of...
Diyarbakir (Matters India): On Saturday Pope Francis approved a decree recognizing the martyrdom of Flavien-Michel Malké, a Syriac Catholic bishop who was killed in 1915 amid the Ottoman Empire’s genocide against its Christian minorities. The decision was made during an...
African bishops, theologians cry out For more expansive synod discussions Theological Colloquium on Church Religion & Society in Africa (TCCRSA) By Joshua J. McElwee, Vatican correspondent Aug. 11, 2015, in NCR. (Note: The African Church has spoken in one Voice....
Documents from controversial ‘Shadow Council’ in Rome now published Maike Hickson (Note: If liberal groups among the world’s bishops are already having shadow Councils, to sharpen their arguments to defend their considered views, the conservative groups also should be doing...