Pope Francis will address the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, on November. The Parliament’s president, Martin Schultz, made the announcement last week and the Vatican immediately confirmed it. According to Fr Federico Lombardi, the Vatican spokesman, Pope Francis will travel to Strasbourg and back to Rome the same day, and his brief trip should not…

Islamic State extremism that “threatens the very survival of Christianity”.

Poverty, violence and changing social norms are causing the disintegration of the family structure across Latin America, church workers in the region said in advance of the October gathering of bishops in the Vatican to discuss pressures families face. From liberalising marriage laws and persistent domestic violence to migration trends sending a record number of…

Ukraine's Catholic bishops have warned their country is now "flowing in blood," and urged Western governments not to become "accomplices in the sin of murder" by failing to support it. "This peaceful sovereign nation has been subjected to a direct military intervention by a northern neighbour – hundreds of units of heavy weaponry and technology,…

The feast days of Saints John XXIII and John Paul II will be on October 11 and October 22 respectively, the Vatican has announced. In a decree published in the September 15 edition of L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican said Pope Francis had approved putting the saints on the Church’s general Roman calendar of feast days…

The Vatican confirmed that Pope Francis is planning to visit Turkey “in the last days of November”, but said the length of his trip and his agenda in the country have yet to be determined. Jesuit Fr Federico Lombardi, the Vatican spokesman, made the announcement last week noting that a formal invitation from Turkish President…

KYG will bring 3,500 young people to Knock on the Feast of the Holy Rosary

Sr Susan Evangelist celebrates 50 years

Participants are invited to ‘Walk to Church’ for Mass