The market researcher CID Gallup of Costa Rica has, in a new survey, listed the Catholic Church in Nicaragua as the most credible institution in that country despite being subjected to harassment and persecution by the Daniel Ortega regime. The survey commissioned by the Nicaraguan media outlet Confidencial showed that 48% of respondents consider the Read more
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Archbishop Fernández admits mistakes handling priest sexual abuse case
Thursday, July 13th, 2023
Archbishop Victor Manuel Fernández publicly acknowledged on Sunday that he made mistakes in handling a case involving a priest accused of sexually abusing minors in 2019. Archbishop Fernández (pictured) has been accused by critics of attempting to protect the priest. Fernández has vehemently denied the allegations. However, in an interview after conducting Mass in La Read more
Prisoner finds redemption building confessionals for WYD
Thursday, July 13th, 2023
A few days before his release from a six-year prison sentence for drug trafficking, Pedro Silva, along with four other prisoners, built 50 confessionals for WYD (World Youth Day) 2023. “I realised that God was always with me. He doesn’t give up on us, so we can’t lose hope,” he said with the smile of Read more
Stella Assange – Pope Francis a massive moral protection
Thursday, July 13th, 2023
Stella Assange, the wife of imprisoned WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, met Pope Francis in the Vatican last Friday. The two Assange children accompanied their mother to the meeting. Afterwards, she described the Holy Father as a “massive moral protection.” Stella Assange said they spoke about her husband’s “day-to-day suffering in prison, the cruelty of being Read more
Inquiry announced into child sexual abuse in state school
Thursday, July 13th, 2023
The Victorian Government has recently approved an inquiry into historical cases of child sexual abuse at Beaumaris Primary School, a government-run institution in Victoria, Australia. There are already demands to extend the inquiry to all Victoria state schools. The initial inquiry will investigate abuse that occurred during the 1960s and 1970s, as well as ongoing Read more
Food suspension in Ethiopia neither humane nor moral
Thursday, July 13th, 2023
Caritas Internationalis, the Catholic Church’s leading humanitarian organisation, is pleading for International Development (USAID) and the World Food Programme (WFP) to immediately reinstate crucial food aid for Ethiopia. The aid was halted on 30 March 2023 in the Tigray region following the discovery of “widespread and systemic” diversion of substantial food supplies intended for the Read more
Boy who crashed WYD security to embrace Pope Francis now a seminarian
Thursday, July 13th, 2023
The boy who bypassed papal security in 2013 to embrace Pope Francis is now a seminarian. It was at Rio de Janeiro’s World Youth Day (WYD) that nine-year old Nathan de Brito came to fame. He’s the boy who ran to hug the pope and said he wanted to be a priest. “At that moment Read more
Two burnt-out French bishops voluntarily become auxiliaries
Thursday, July 13th, 2023Citing exhaustion from a demanding job, two French bishops have voluntarily been demoted to auxiliary bishop status in the latest sign of serious strains in the country’s episcopacy. Bishop Thierry Brac de la Perrière, 64, will move “to a less onerous and less exposed ministry” in his east-central home archdiocese of Lyon from Nevers in Read more
Study: Most women don’t want abortion
Thursday, July 13th, 2023Pro-abortion advocates like to frame their position as “pro-choice,” as if women can easily decide whether or not they want to have an abortion. But for many women who go through with abortion, the decision wasn’t really their choice at all, according to a new study. A peer-reviewed study by the anti-abortion Charlotte Lozier Institute Read more
How the Irish Church is working to understand ‘synodality’
Thursday, July 13th, 2023A lack of understanding around the various elements of synodality is hindering the development of a synodal church, according to new research. Plans are underway for a second national assembly at the end of the year as part of the Irish Church’s next step in its National Synodal Pathway. Julieann Moran, general secretary of the Read more