A bishop cleared of any wrongdoing after a Pennsylvania district attorney’s investigation has been harmed by speculation about him going public. Although Bishop Kevin Rhoades has been cleared of any wrongdoing,both the district attorney and the Fort Wayne diocese lamented that unnecessary harm was done to him after a suggestion of impropriety was leaked to Read more
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Catholics and Buddhists working together
Monday, September 17th, 2018Poor and homeless people are benefiting from a collective effort made by US Catholics and Buddhists. The Green Affordable Housing Project is uniting Catholics and Buddhists in three US cities to provide a home for poor and homeless people. Read more
Detained migrant children numbers skyrocket
Monday, September 17th, 2018The overall number of detained migrant children in the US has exploded to the highest ever recorded. Population levels at US federally contracted shelters for migrant children have quietly shot up more than five-fold since last summer, according to data obtained by The New York Times. So far this month 12,800 children were being detained. Read more
Pope summons world’s top bishops to Rome
Thursday, September 13th, 2018
Protecting minors and vulnerable adults from abuse will be discussed at a special meeting at the Vatican next February. Pope Francis has called all the presidents of the world’s Bishops’ Conferences to attend the meeting. Francis called the meeting after consulting the Council of Cardinal Advisors (also called the C9) at their meeting in Rome Read more
Boy raises $1m for drought-affected farmers
Thursday, September 13th, 2018
Australia’s drought-affected farmers are about to benefit from $1 million raised by a 10-year old boy and his classmates. Jack Berne and his classmates at Sydney’s St John the Baptist Primary School raised the money through ‘A Fiver For A Farmer’ campaign on GoFundMe. The campaign, which was launched in July, urged people to spare Read more
Families don’t appreciate teachers, Pope says
Thursday, September 13th, 2018
Today families don’t appreciate teachers, Pope Francis told a parents’ organisation that supports education as both a scholastic and social effort. He said the relationship between education and the family is declining. “The educational pact is declining. The family no longer appreciates the work of teachers as they did at one time,” Francis says. “To Read more
Japanese visit on cards for Pope
Thursday, September 13th, 2018
A Japanese visit is a possibility for Pope Francis next year. If he goes, it will be only the second time a Catholic pontiff has visited visit Japan. St Pope John Paul II visited Japan in 1981. Francis made the announcement of his proposed visit to members of the “Tensho Kenoh Shisetsu Kenshokai” association he Read more
Wuerl to discuss his resignation with Pope
Thursday, September 13th, 2018
Cardinal Donald Wuerl’s possible resignation will be the subject of a discussion he plans having with Pope Francis, he wrote in a letter to the Washington archiocese bishops. He told them he will be going to Rome soon to discuss his possible resignation. Wuerl’s letter followed an extraordinary meeting at which he talked with archdiocesan Read more
Germany’s churches warn against racism upsurge
Thursday, September 13th, 2018An upsurge in racism in Germany has prompted German bishops urge those who ‘see themselves as Christians’ to oppose it. “Seizing this opportunity to stir up anger and hate against foreigners or those who think differently from us, or using violence against them is too reprehensible,” Bishop Gerhard Feige said in a statement circulated on Read more
Pope’s meeting agenda included abuse and his resignation
Thursday, September 13th, 2018Demands from a Vatican archbishop for the Pope’s resignation and America’s clergy sexual abuse scandal were on the agenda when Pope Francis met with several US bishops yesterday for talks. Read more