Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni hosted the world’s most powerful leaders in Italy last week and reportedly made a few foes over a flap involving the removal of abortion language from the G7’s final declaration of priorities. But in the United States, she’s winning praise from pro-life Americans, including former Vice President Mike Pence, founder of Read more
The 2024 Catholic Education Convention has had just finished a successful three days at the TSB Arena in Wellington, the New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference says. The convention brought together Catholic educators, bishops, priests, school trustees and a range of others associated with our national Catholic education system. Catholic schools educate 8.1pc of the country’s Read more
The diversity of the Catholic Church in the United States requires that it develop a culturally sensitive approach to preventing abuse, a safeguarding expert said. Although the US church, like the church in Europe, has structures in place to promote safeguarding to a higher degree than churches with less resources, “there are cultural aspects that Read more
According to Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin, Pope Francis would travel to China immediately – if the Chinese were open to it. This was reported by the Vatican News portal (Friday). However, Parolin does not have the impression that the conditions for realising this wish have been met so far. Pope Francis repeatedly emphasises Read more
A new report claims that all British Christians are suffering rising levels of harassment and discrimination because of their faith, with the young particularly susceptible to intolerance. It found that only 38 percent of Christians under 35 felt free to say what they think and that 56 percent said they experienced hostility and ridicule if Read more
An upgraded Digital Child Exploitation Filter will significantly reduce the amount of child sex abuse material available online, the Department of Internal Affairs says. The number of illegal websites blocked in New Zealand will increase from 700 to nearly 30,000. The department will add daily-updated lists from the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), a UK not-for-profit, Read more
US Catholic bishops offered an apology to Native Americans on Friday for the church’s role in inflicting trauma on their communities and adopted new guidelines for ministering to indigenous Catholics. The new policies, approved by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, call on church leaders to set up listening sessions with local Native leaders, incorporate Read more
Those behind the Christ Church Cathedral rebuild say reducing seismic strengthening may help plug the project’s massive funding gap. The landmark cathedral in Christchurch’s city centre was badly damaged in the 2011 Canterbury earthquakes. The cost of restoring the church has blown out to almost $250 million, as deconstruction uncovered just what was required, leaving Read more
In response to the controversy sparked by people chanting a political slogan during a Mass in the Argentine capital, the archbishop of Buenos Aires, Jorge Ignacio García Cuerva, was clear: “The Mass is something sacred.” “The Eucharist is something sacred; that’s why the Mass is something sacred because it is the very core of the Read more
A new study has attempted to discredit the infamous Pew Study from 2019, which showed the dismal reality of Catholic liturgical catechesis, that even among practising Catholics, very few believe in the Real Presence. If this new study is more accurate, this is good news! The Pew study asked respondents what they think the Church Read more