Cardinal Peter Turkson, prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, pictured Jan. 19, 2020. Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA. The Apostleship of the Sea, a …
Pope Francis asks order to keep spreading devotion to St. Michael the Archangel
Pope Francis preaches at a Mass for the Vatican Gendarmerie Sept. 26, 2020. Credit: Vatican Media. Pope Francis encouraged a religious order to continue promoting …
Bishops join Christian leaders in calling for an end to violence in Cameroon
Bishop Declan Lang and Bishop Philip Egan have added their voices to an ecumenical statement calling on the UK government and the international community to …
Launch of Spirituality resource focusing on Responsorial Psalms
The Spirituality Committee of the Bishops’ Conference has been reflecting on how best to support and sustain a person’s prayer life at this challenging time …
German cardinal issues stark warning about ‘Synodal Way’
Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki of Cologne. Credit: www.ewtn.de. A German cardinal issued a stark warning Saturday about his country’s controversial “Synodal Way.” In an address …
Pope Francis appoints extra prosecutor to Vatican City court
Pope Francis greets pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square on Feb. 26, 2020. Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA Pope Francis today named an Italian lawyer and professor of …
How the pandemic has changed the fight against human trafficking
by Fr Mark Ehichioya Odion MSP, Bishop Patrick Lynch SSCC The UN Special Rapporteurs on migration and trafficking in persons issued a statement warning that …
Cardinal Pell to return to Rome this week
Cardinal George Pell. Alan Holdren/CNA Cardinal George Pell is set to return to Rome on Tuesday, his first time back in the Vatican since 2017, …
Pope Francis: The path to holiness requires spiritual combat
Pope Francis greets pilgrims at his Angelus address Aug. 30, 2020. Credit: Vatican Media/CNA. Pope Francis said today that the Christian life requires concrete commitments …
Carlo Acutis beatification will be a 17-day celebration in Assisi
Carlo Acutis. Credit: carloacutis.com. Tomb photo credit: Alexey Gotovsky/EWTN. Assisi is celebrating the beatification of computer programming teen Carlo Acutis in October with more than …
Russia seeks to bar foreign-educated religious leaders from teaching, preaching
The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Moscow. Credit: Sergey Ilyin-Mikhalski via Wikimedia (public domain). Catholic leaders in Russia are expressing concern about a bill …
NI health department warns of risks of unregulated at-home medical abortion
Credit: Prostock-studio/Shutterstock. Northern Ireland’s Department of Health told a Belfast daily yesterday that women who self-administer medical abortions at home are at risk. Home administration …
In UN message, Pope Francis decries abortion and family breakdown
Pope Francis records a video message delivered to the United Nations Sept. 25, 2020. Screengrab: Holy See UN. Pope Francis told the United Nations yesterday …
Archbishop leads BBC Radio 4 Daily Service with Scripture focus
We’re delighted to announce that ‘The God who Speaks‘ will be the theme of BBC Radio 4’s Daily Service between 28 September – 9 October. …
Analysis: The Becciu resignation, a beginning not an end
Cardinal Angelo Becciu. Credit: Credit: Claude Truong-Ngoc / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) At around 6pm on Thursday, Pope Francis summoned Cardinal Angelo Becciu to …
New details emerge about Cardinal Becciu’s management of Vatican finances
The then Archbishop Angelo Becciu blesses the Pilgrimage Information Center for the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy on Dec. 1, 2015. Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA. Following his …
Cardinal Becciu defends actions, welcomes chance to ‘explain’
Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu, center, in 2015. Credit: Alan Holdren/CNA. The day after he was forced to resign from his Vatican job and to give …
Vatican Cardinal Angelo Becciu resigns from office and ‘rights’ of cardinals
Giovanni Angelo Becciu, former prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, pictured June 27, 2019. Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA. Cardinal Angelo Becciu, who until …
Discussing the challenges faced by refugees and migrants
To mark the Catholic Church’s celebration of the World Day of Migrants and Refugees, the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales have recorded a discussion …
Catholic Bishops in England and Wales statement on the development of a COVID-19 vaccination
The Bishops’ Conference Department for Social Justice has released a statement on the development of a vaccine against COVID-19. It addresses ethical matters surrounding the development and …