Pope Francis has changed the Church’s regulations to allow religious brothers who are not priests to lead their religious communities with Vatican permission. In a “rescriptum ex audientia” issued May 18, the pope said that the Vatican congregation overseeing religious orders can, in individual cases and at its own discretion, grant permission for non-priest religious Read more
As the ecological crisis in Brazil continues to get worse, the country’s Roman Catholic bishops have become more vocal about its causes, denouncing collaboration between government officials and corporations to carry out destructive mining projects in areas occupied by indigenous peoples. On May 5, Bishop José Ionilton Lisboa de Oliveira of Itacoatiara in Amazonas state, Read more
Amid the growing economic crisis facing Aotearoa, unprecedented numbers of schools and early childhood centres and charities, like KidsCan, are offering breakfast to children to make sure they eat. As the cost of living trims how far money goes, children’s charity KidsCan is supporting more schools than ever – 874 schools and 156 early childhood Read more
Facing the trauma of conflict requires love and hope, and Caritas has been hard at work sharing this “medicine” with everyone, said the director of Caritas-Spes. The war will not end with just a peace agreement, said Pallottine Father Vyacheslav Grynevych, director of the charitable arm of the Latin-rite Catholic dioceses in Ukraine. “The war Read more
King Abdullah II and Queen Rania of Jordan were awarded the 2022 Path to Peace Award for their role in promoting interfaith harmony and dialogue. The monarch of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is the “protector” of the Islamic and Christian Holy Places in Jerusalem has worked with much determination so that Christians and Muslims Read more
The three-quarters full bottle of altar wine alongside an unopened six pack of traditional beeswax altar candles in the oratory sacristy gave an impression of a seminary hastily abandoned. Priests’ vestments hanging on a rail lent to that view. But Holy Cross Clonliffe in Dublin’s Drumcondra ceased to operate as a seminary in 1999 when Read more
The Futuna Chapel in Karori Wellington has been awarded a “Best of Wellington” award by Metro Magazine. “This 1961 chapel by John Scott is perhaps the greatest piece of modernist architecture in New Zealand. “Recently opening its doors to broader use has seen it host some of the most exciting experimental music in the country, Read more
Reported cases of missing migrants in Mexico jumped nearly fourfold in 2021 from 2020, as the country struggles to stem the flow of undocumented people from Central America to the United States, according to a report released on Wednesday. The number of missing foreigners grew by 292 percent to 349 from 89 cases, said the Read more
NZ owned US-based mobile payments company Pushpay Holdings Ltd, says its success depended on capturing a significant portion of the Catholic church market in the United States. On Thursday the company provided the market with long-term projections forecasting that the total value of money processed on its platforms would exceed $15.9 billion and it would Read more