Early reaction to Pope Francis’s recent document on family life has seen some divorced and remarried Catholics demanding absolution at an Italian cathedral. This was stated in an article by major penitentiary at Milan Cathedral, Msgr Fausto Gilardi, a translation of which was published on the Crux website. In the article, he mentioned the reaction to a Read more
A US cardinal has celebrated a Mass for Life near Jesuit Georgetown University after the institution hosted a lecture from an abortion provider. Cardinal Donald Wuerl celebrated Mass at Epiphany Church in Washington, a few blocks from Georgetown. This was one day after the university hosted a lecture by Cecile Richards, the CEO of Planned Read more
A woman has filed civil proceedings against Bishop Eamon Casey, who scandalised Ireland in the 1990s after it was revealed he had fathered a child. The woman, from Limerick, has initiated proceedings against Bishop Casey, who is now 88, suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and living in nursing home in County Clare. A summons has been Read more
A statue of Our Lady and the glass case in which it was housed remained intact amidst the devastation of Equador’s huge earthquake this month. The statue of Our Lady of Light was housed in a school that collapsed and was reduced to rubble in the April 16 quake, which left at least 600 people Read more
An Austrian bishop has refused to allow an anti-refugee border fence to be built on church lands. Bishop Aegidius Zsifkovics of Eisenstadt has ensured the fence being built along Austria’s border with Hungary will have at least two large holes. The bishop said that fences weren’t the answer to Europe’s refugee crisis and allowing them Read more
Norway’s Catholic Church is to seek the Vatican’s permission to have its clergy withdraw from officiating at marriages on the Norwegian state’s behalf. The move comes after the governing synod of Norway’s predominant Lutheran Church voted to allow gay marriages. Catholic Bishop Bernt Eidsvig of Oslo said “it’s clear we must distinguish our own church Read more
A bleeding Communion host in Poland deemed by Church authority to have ‘the hallmarks of a eucharistic miracle’ has been approved for veneration. The announcement was made by Bishop Zbigniew Kiernikowski of Legnica on April 17. On Christmas Day 2013, a consecrated host fell to the floor, the bishop said. It was picked up and Read more
Australian Bishop William Morris is among the signatories to a letter calling for a new process for theological investigations by the Church. An international group of bishops, nuns, priests and lay people have written to Pope Francis calling for reform. They have specifically called for an end to anonymous denunciations. Many of the letter’s signatories Read more
A missionary nun from Northern Ireland and five young postulants were among those killed in the earthquake that struck Equador on April 16. Sr Clare Maria Crockett, 33, from Derry, worked at a school in Playa Prieta, where she taught alongside other sisters of the Home of the Mother order. The missionary was teaching young Read more
A leading candidate for the Philippines presidency could, if elected, be the first survivor of clergy sexual abuse to be a head-of-state. Rodrigo Duterte, the long time mayor of Davao City, has said he was abused at the Ateneo de Davao High School, a Jesuit-run school, in the late 1950s. Duterte recently surged to the Read more