A report on the handling of abuse cases in Germany’s Archdiocese of Munich and Freising is unlikely to be published before January 2022. Westpfahl Spilker Wastl, the law firm compiling the report, announced the delay on Nov. 3, reported CNA Deutsch, CNA’s German-language news partner. The Munich law firm said that the delay was caused Read more
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Report on handling of abuse cases in Germany’s Munich archdiocese delayed
Monday, November 8th, 2021Vaccine mandates creating an “underclass of the unvaccinated” in Victoria
Thursday, November 4th, 2021
Australian religious leaders are broadly supportive of Covid-19 vaccinations, however they are concerned a vaccine mandate could create an underclass of the unvaccinated. While turning the unvaccinated away is a public health imperative, it is theologically very difficult for many religions. Father Peter Nguyen of St Dominic’s Catholic Church in Camberwell is grateful for an Read more
Catholic church will become ‘women-free’ within 20 years, warns theologian
Thursday, November 4th, 2021
The Catholic church will become ‘women-free’ in Britain and Ireland within 20 years and die out completely within a generation unless it reverses its “sexist and unbiblical” policy that only men can become priests, a leading academic and theologian has warned. Unless it revokes the doctrine, the Church will struggle to attract new followers and Read more
French bishops conference focus on “massive phenomenon” of child abuse
Thursday, November 4th, 2021
The French Catholic bishops conference began on Tuesday, with half the seven-day meeting to focus on damning child abuse revelations. The 120 bishops are meeting to pour over a shock report released last month that detailed child abuse of more than 200,000 minors spanning 70 years. The findings of the Sauvé report on sexual abuse Read more
Priest died of COVID-19 so his congregants got vaccinated in his honour
Thursday, November 4th, 2021
When Father Francisco Valdovinos died of COVID-19 aged 58, his congregants did something very unusual: they got vaccinated. Scrolling back to the months before his death during the pandemic last year, Valdovinos transformed the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Guadalupe parish into a food distribution center and testing site. He gave out thousands of masks, Read more
Another unneeded attack on religions says Melbourne’s Archbishop Comensoli
Thursday, November 4th, 2021
The Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne, Peter Comensoli, is speaking out against a new law aimed at religious organisations. Critical of State Governor, Daniel Andrews (pictured), Comensoli says the new Equal Opportunity Act (Religious Exceptions) reform proposes a new ‘inherent requirement’ test to replace current, well-working exemptions from anti-discrimination laws. This means an employer will have Read more
The Jew who became a priest will be buried as a Jew
Thursday, November 4th, 2021Later this week, a Jewish Holocaust survivor who became a Catholic priest, will be buried in Poland as a Jew alongside his mother and sister who were murdered by the Nazis. Having grown up in a religious Jewish household, Father Gregor Pawlowski, born Jacob Zvi Griner, was saved during the Holocaust by dint of papers Read more
Pope, at military cemetery, tells arms manufacturers: ‘Stop!’
Thursday, November 4th, 2021Pope Francis, in a visit to a military cemetery on the day Catholics remember their dead, on Tuesday urged arms manufacturers to “stop”, because war “swallows up the children of the homeland”. On All Souls Day, Francis said a Mass at the French military cemetery in Rome, with its rows of white crosses the burial Read more
Researchers show US Catholic bishops’ denialism on climate change
Thursday, November 4th, 2021A university in the United States has, in an environmental research paper, shown how US Catholic bishops’ diocesan communications have “collectively snuffed out the spark of Laudato si’.” The research titled “US Catholic bishops’ silence and denialism on climate change” was authored by Sabrina Danielsen, Daniel R DiLeo and Emily E Burke from the Department Read more
Success of pope’s Canada visit depends on Church releasing key documents, says First Nation chief
Thursday, November 4th, 2021Chief Rosanne Casimir of Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation in Canada’s westernmost province of British Columbia has called for the release of documents regarding the former Church-run residential schools as a precondition to a meaningful papal apology when the pope visits Canada. Pope Francis has recently indicated his willingness to visit Canada on a pilgrimage Read more