Pope Francis prays before the statue of the Immaculate Conception in Rome’s Piazza di Spagna Dec. 8, 2020. Credit: Vatican Media. Pope Francis made a …
Columban’s launch competition to challenge students to help ‘End Racism’
Image Source: CBCEW The Columban Missionary Society has launched a schools’ competition to encourage students aged between 14-18 to use their media skills to engage …
Report: Vatican seeks 8-year jail sentence for ex-Vatican bank president
St. Peter’s Basilica. Credit: Feliks/Shutterstock. The Vatican’s Promoter of Justice is seeking an eight-year jail term for a former president of the Institute for Religious …
Belarus to be consecrated to Mary on Immaculate Conception feast
Belarus to be consecrated to Mary on Immaculate Conception feast The metropolitan archbishop of Minsk has asked all churches in Belarus to pray an act …
Scots College in Rome to change location in the city
Scots College in Rome to change location in the city. The Scottish seminary in Rome is looking to relocate closer to the city center next …
Belgian Catholics organize legal challenge to public Mass ban
Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp, Belgium. Credit: Alvesgaspar via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). Catholics in Belgium are seeking to take legal action against …
Pope Francis will travel to Iraq in 2021
Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Square May, 23, 2018. Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA. The Vatican announced today that Pope Francis will travel to Iraq in March …
Report: Two-child limit on UK tax benefits pushes some women to abortion
Credit: Africa Studio/Shutterstock. Nine months after UK Catholic leaders called for the abolition of a two-child limit on tax credits and other benefits for children, …
Pope Francis: Ask God for the gift of conversion in Advent
Pope Francis delivers an Angelus address overlooking St. Peter’s Square. Credit: Vatican Media. We should ask God for the gift of conversion this Advent, Pope …
Pope Francis approves overhaul of Vatican’s financial watchdog
Pope Francis approved today sweeping changes to the Vatican’s financial watchdog authority. The Holy See press office announced this morning that the pope had ratified …
Gethsemane church targeted in arson attack
Damage inside the Church of All Nations in Jerusalem from a Dec. 4, 2020 arson attack. Photo courtesy of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem. The …
Swiss court suspends public worship ban in Geneva
The challengers to the ban on public worship in the Swiss canton of Geneva. Credit: ADF International. A court suspended Thursday a ban on public …
Effort to buy and preserve Tolkien house in Oxford
20 Northmoor Road, Oxford, where JRR Tolkien lived with his family from 1930 to 1947. Credit: Jpbowen via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 3.0). Actors from the …
Notre-Dame choir to return to fire-damaged cathedral for Christmas concert
Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, the day after a massive fire damaged parts of the roof and structure in April 2019. Credit: UlyssePixel / Shutterstock. …
New Vatican guide for bishops addresses common challenges to Christian unity
Cardinal Kurt Koch, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, in Rome on Oct. 23, 2019. Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA. The Vatican published Friday …
Weekly Newsletter 5th December 2020 (47)
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Pope Francis establishes worldwide prayer network as Vatican body
Pope Francis, pictured on April 17, 2013. Credit: Mazur/catholicnews.org.uk. Pope Francis has established the global network that promotes his monthly prayer intentions as a Vatican …
Christian aid group applauds investigation into forced conversions, marriages in Pakistan
A young girl lights a candle at a Marian Grotto in Pakistan. Credit: Magdalena Wolnik/CNA. Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has ordered an investigation into …
CBCEW: Issue updated statement on COVID-19 and vaccination
Image Source: CBCEW On behalf of the Bishops, the Department for Social Justice of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales has issued a …
Catholic bishops welcome ‘realistic’ new measures for public Masses in France
Sainte-Chapelle, the 13th-century chapel built by French King Louis IX to house Christ’s crown of thorns. Credit: Chris Chabot via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0). Bishops …