Pope Francis will canonise a teenage boy during the Synod of bishops on young people in October. Nunzio Sulprizio will be declared a saint alongside Oscar Romero and Paul VI and four others in a ceremony on October 14. Sulprizio was born on April 13, 1817, in the Abruzzo region near Pescara. Both of his…
Inés San Martín An already noticeable edge to Argentina’s mounting abortion debate turned even nastier in mid-July with the release of a ‘Doom’-inspired video game called ‘Doom Fetito’ in which players scramble to procure an abortion-inducing drug by battling Catholic priests, Nazi-like police and pro-life women, and then ultimately kill ‘the boss’, meaning an…
New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan [pictured], has called for prayers that “the change in the US Supreme Court will move our nation closer to the day when every human being is protected in law and welcomed in life.” Noting the lobbying that began by pro abortion groups as soon as Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy…
WMOF 2018 A new series of digital animations have been launched as part of ongoing preparations for the World Meeting of Families and the visit of Pope Francis. The new resource focuses on Amoris Laetitia, the document written by Pope Francis on love in the family. The Amoris Animations, the first created using Amoris…
The visit of Pope Francis should be a moment when even those who feel alienated or hostile to the Church can reconnect, Archbishop Eamon Martin has said. He described the theme of the World Meeting of Families ‘the Gospel of the Family – Joy for the World’ as a message “not only for ‘faith-full’ Catholic…
Going to the Mountain: Life Lessons from my Grandfather, Nelson Mandela by Ndaba Mandela (Hutchinson, £14.99) Peter Hegarty With clear-eyed affection Ndaba Mandela recalls the man who brought him up. He first met his grandfather in Victor Verster prison shortly before his release in 1990. Mandela – Madiba, as he was popularly known – expected to spend his…
A Catholic priest was shot dead on Friday, July 20 in the Cameroons. Fr Alexander Nougi Sob was parish priest of Bomaka, a district of Buea, the capital of the English-speaking region of South-West Cameroon. He was also a former Catholic Education Secretary there. According to the Journal du Cameroun, Fr Sob was hit by…
Catholic dioceses in China are being required to show how they will reduce foreign influences and adopt a more Chinese ideological and theological identity. The aim is to do this through a five-year plan running until 2022. A strategy was agreed at a May 17 meeting of the Bishops’ Conference of the Catholic Church in…
A seven-foot-tall bronze statue of the Virgin Mary in a Catholic church in New Mexico appears to be weeping a substance with the chemical makeup of olive oil treated with perfume. The ‘weeping’ began on Pentecost Sunday on May 20, when parishioners at Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church in Hobbs noticed that there appeared to be tears…
WMOF 2018 A new six-part series A Journey Through Amoris Laetitia features a wide variety of well-known commentators, as well as families from all walks of life and from all over the world. Through the six episodes, the participants reflect on what Amoris Laetitia has to say to families as they experience the ups…