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Thursday, August 1st, 2024
Seminarians in Africa are not allowed “to be themselves”. They must find ways “to get by” Father Augustine Anwuchie from Nigeria said on July 19. He was speaking during the latest of a series of digital meetings with theologians and other experts in Africa. The meetings aim to deepen understanding of the Synod on Synodality Read more
Tags: Africa, Catholic News, Priesthood, Priestly Formation, Seminarians
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Monday, April 8th, 2024
On the morning of Easter Sunday 2024, Pope Francis presided over Mass in St Peter’s Square before delivering his urbi et orbi message and blessing from the central loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica in the presence of an estimated 60,000 people. “Urbi et orbi” means “To the city [of Rome] and to the world.” I Read more
Tags: Catholic News, Easter 2024, Pope Francis, Urbi et Orbi
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Thursday, December 8th, 2022
The Vatican’s Dicastery for the Service of Charity is holding a thermal shirt drive to help people in Ukraine, who are facing an energy emergency amid the war. Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, the pope’s almoner, says the charity office is “already stocking up” on thermal shirts for men, women and children. He is encouraging others to Read more
Tags: Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, Catholic News, Vatican news
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Thursday, September 29th, 2022
The shortest definition of religion is “interruption,” says Bishop Georg Bätzing (pictured). Some forms of continuity people seek from religion are “frankly suspect,” the president of the German Catholic Bishops’ Conference asserts. Bätzing made the comments during the bishops’ plenary assembly in a live-streamed Mass on Tuesday. In his homily he said “all too surely Read more
Tags: Bishop Franz-Josef Bode, Bishop Georg Bätzing, Catholic News, German Bishops' Conference, German Church, German Synodal Way
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Thursday, July 28th, 2022
An attack on Sunday at a Greek Orthodox church in Syria resulted in two deaths and twelve injuries. It was the newly-built Hagia Sophia Church’s inaugural celebration. The weapons landed just 15 meters from where clerics and the congregation were gathered in front of the building. The attack has been variously attributed to rockets, missiles Read more
Tags: Catholic News, Eastern Orthodoxy, Greek Orthodox church, Syria, Syrian Civil War
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Thursday, March 3rd, 2022
Cologne’s cardinal, Rainer Maria Woelki, for a second time, has offered his resignation to Pope Francis. Woelki has been facing strong criticism for several months for his responses to allegations of child abuse in the Church. He chose to take a five-month break from his duties last September after the Vatican report accused him of Read more
Tags: Archdiocese of Cologne, Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki, Catholic Church, Catholic Church in Germany, Catholic News, Pope Francis
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Monday, February 14th, 2022
Last October, Jean-Marc Sauvé gave the French Bishops’ Conference the report he and members of the Independent Commission on Sexual Abuse in the Church (CIASE) had compiled. Then in November, the French Catholic Academy published a 15-page critique of the report. The Academy has about 70 members. “The most serious defects of the CIASE report, Read more
Tags: Catholic Church, Catholic Church in France, Catholic Church sex abuse cases, Catholic News, France
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Monday, November 22nd, 2021
The theme “Moved by Hope” inspired hundreds of short film submissions from young people from across the world to a new Catholic-run international film festival. The festival strives to embrace, encourage and empower every young person to become the voice of hope and solidarity. “You, young people, are the architects of the future, signs of Read more
Tags: Catholic Church, Catholic film, Catholic movies, Catholic News, Catholic youth, Don Bosco, film, movies, Salesians
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Monday, September 27th, 2021
Pope Francis says the two-year process leading to the 2023 synod on synodality is not about “gathering opinions,” but “listening to the Holy Spirit.” He repeatedly stressed the Holy Spirit’s role in decision-making. The three-phase synod opens next month with a diocesan phase, which will run until April. A second, continental phase will take place Read more
Tags: 2023 synod on synodality, Catholic Church, Catholic News, Diocese of Rome, Pope Francis, Synodality, Vatican news
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