Chinese foreign ministry’s spokesman Zhao Lijan. Credit: China News Service. BY CC SA 3.0 A spokesman for China’s foreign ministry said yesterday that China’s interim …
Abortion rate in England and Wales soars amid pandemic
Baby Feet. Credit: Morgan via Flickr (CC BY 2.0). The number of abortions in England and Wales soared in the first half of 2020 amid …
Pope Francis: borders should be ‘windows,’ not barriers of division
Pope Francis meets a delegation from the project Snapshots From The Borders at the Vatican Sept. 10, 2020. Credit: Vatican Media. Pope Francis appealed today …
Cardinal Hollerich: Europe should be ‘ashamed’ after refugee camp fire
The outskirts of the Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos. Credit: Cathsign (CC BY-SA 4.0). A cardinal said yesterdat that Europe should …
Christian in Pakistan sentenced to death for blasphemy
The flag of Pakistan. Credit: Creative Photo Corner/Shutterstock A Pakistani court sentenced Asif Pervaiz, a Christian, to death on Tuesday on charges of blasphemy. The …
Queensland passes law requiring priests to break confessional seal
Credit: Shutterstock. The legislature of the Australian state of Queensland on Tuesday passed a law requiring priests to violate the seal of confession to report …
Pope Francis: Promote the common good to heal wounds of coronavirus crisis
Pope Francis pictured at his general audience in the San Damaso Courtyard at the Vatican Sept. 9, 2020. Credits: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA. The wounds inflicted by …
Europe Catholic Mass is taken off the airwaves in Belarus
The Cathedral of the Holy Name of Mary in Minsk, Belarus. Credit: A.Savin/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0). A Mass broadcast to Catholics across Belarus has …
Updated: New social gathering rules ‘will not apply to churches’ tweets the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury
This article has been updated to include the following tweet from the Catholic Bishops’ Conference (England and Wales) The British government announced new limits on …
Founder of Catholic religious order will be beatified in May
A detail from a portrait of Fr. Francis Mary of the Cross Jordan. Credit: Societas Divini Salvatoris. The Vatican has decreed that Fr. Francis Mary …
Environment Environment Bishop Arnold: We all have a role to play in caring for our common home
This article first appeared on Vatican News. The lead Bishop on the Environment for the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, Bishop John Arnold speaks …
Religious sisters missing after jihadist attack found safe and well
The Cathedral of St. Paul in Pemba, Mozambique. Credit: Rosins/Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 2.0). Two religious sisters missing after jihadists attacked a port town in Mozambique …
Church leaders pray for peace following stabbings in Birmingham, England
Archbishop Bernard Longley of Birmingham. Credit: Mazur/catholicchurch.org.uk. Catholic and Anglican leaders in Birmingham, England, said they were praying for peace yesterday after an attack that …
Pope Francis to sign a new encyclical on human fraternity on 3 October
Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Square Oct. 2, 2019. Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA. The Vatican announced yesterday that Pope Francis will sign the third encyclical of …
Bishop Mark Davies prays for canonization of Manchester nun Elizabeth Prout
Bishop Mark Davies of Shrewsbury has encouraged Catholics to pray for the canonization of Mother Elizabeth Prout – a 19th-century religious sister who cared for …
Scotland’s Hate Crime Bill garners large consultation
The flag of Scotland. Credit: Lynx Aqua/Shutterstock Nearly 2,000 submissions have been made to the Scottish Parliament in the course of a 12-week public consultation …
‘Somebody has to make a big move’: Catholic priest who walked Belfast gauntlet on reconciliation
A pupil from Holy Cross Girls’ School with a soldier from the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. Credit: public domain. Fr. Aidan Troy set off with …
Pope Francis pleads with Catholics not to gossip
Pope Francis delivers his Angelus address on Aug. 6, 2020. Credit: Vatican Media/CNA. Pope Francis implored Catholics Sunday not to gossip about one another’s faults, …
Two religious sisters in Mozambique still missing after Islamist attack
The flag of Mozambique. Credit: mhojnik (CC BY 2.0). Two religious sisters in Mozambique are still unaccounted for three weeks after militants linked to the …
Pope Francis: Economics should not ‘sacrifice human dignity to the idols of finance’
Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Square on Feb. 22, 2017. Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA. Pope Francis told heads of state and business leaders Friday that human …