Catholic leaders in Burkina Faso appealed for unity and solidarity after two attacks on Catholics in two days left nine laypeople and a priest dead.
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Girl, 17, With Down Syndrome Thanks Mom for Life and Becomes Advocate
An Edmonton teenager with Down syndrome saw her pro-life advocacy dream become reality. She told her story to a large audience at the Alberta March for Life May 9. The annual event coincided with the national March for Life in Ottawa, Ontario, and others across Canada.
Vienna-based Group Logs Attacks Against European Christian Churches
Vandals and thieves have damaged at least eight Christian churches in Germany since early April.Churches have also been attacked, apparently at random, in Scotland, England, France, Poland, Spain, Italy and Austria.
French President Faces Questions Over Notre Dame Restoration
One month after a massive fire ravaged Paris’s Notre Dame Cathedral, one of the most iconic landmarks of western civilization still stands, but controversy lingers as restoration efforts are now underway.
Chile Bishop Says Pope’s Criticism Created ‘Painful,’ ‘Unfair’ Image
By Inés San Martín SANTIAGO, Chile (Crux) – When the entire Chilean Bishops’ Conference presented their resignations to Pope Francis in Rome last year amid a massive scandal involving clerical sexual abuse and cover-up, Celestino Aos Braco had been a Bishop of a small diocese for just four years. As it turns out, it was […]
Shooting Following Burkina Faso Catholic Mass Leaves Six Dead and Church Destroyed
The Tablet Staff After a peaceful Sunday morning church service in the remote town of Dablo, Burkina Faso, a group of 20 gunmen presumed to be jihadists surrounded the church, and shot and killed six worshippers, including a parish priest. According to an eyewitness account shared with Vatican News, the priest, Father Simeon Yamp, was […]
Pope Okays Pilgrimage To Medjugorje, Says Apparitions ‘Need Study’
After nearly two years of studying the pastoral status of Medjugorje, where the Virgin Mary has allegedly been appearing since 1981, the Vatican announced May 12 that Pope Francis has given the green light for priests to lead pilgrimages there but expressed no opinion on the authenticity of the “noted happenings.”
Theologians, Cardinals Defend Pope’s Theology in Wake of Heresy Charge
In the wake of an April 30 open letter accusing Pope Francis of heresy signed by 19 clergymen and scholars, demanding the pontiff’s resignation, theologians and cardinals at a conference in Rome on Wednesday instead praised Francis’s theology and magisterium.
Pope Issues Global Standards for Reporting, Investigating Clergy Abuse
Following February’s Vatican summit to address the Church’s fight against clerical sexual abuse, Pope Francis released a new law on Thursday making it mandatory for all clerics and members of religious orders to report cases of clerical sexual abuse to Church authorities, including when committed by bishops or cardinals.
Pope Invites Ukrainian Catholic Church Leaders to Vatican
Pope Francis has invited bishops of the Ukrainian Catholic Church to the Vatican in July to find ways the church can best serve their people, peace and the Gospel.