“I launch a heartfelt appeal to the Syrian authorities and the international community: I beg you, silence the weapons, put an end to the violence! No more war! No more destruction!” Pope Francis appeals for an end to the Syrian conflict during on Aporil 9, a day after the murder of fellow Jesuit Fr Frans…

The Pro Life Campaign (PLC) has called for a massive show of support for its National Vigil for Life next month against “political promise-breaking and groupthink” on the issue of abortion. As it gears up to welcome busloads of participants from all parts of Ireland for the May 3 event, a spokesperson for the PLC…

Journalist John Waters has accused The Irish Times religious affairs correspondent, Patsy McGarry, of allegedly using an anonymous social media account to launch messages against him. Mr McGarry has declined to comment. According to Mr Waters, the @Thomas2805607 Twitter account was the source of online messages mocking his recent action against RTÉ in the wake…

The Pope has insisted the Church “will not take one step backward” on the issue of child abuse and has sought forgiveness for the actions of errant priests in the Church. Addressing a meeting of BICE (International Catholic Child Bureau) in Rome on April 11, the Pontiff made his comments which were quickly taken up…

Censors in Egypt have ruled that the latest Russell Crowe film, Noah, does not offend Islam and have passed it for screening in the country. Having been banned by Muslim authorities in Qatar, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates on the basis that any portrayal of a prophet’s face is insulting to Islamic tradition, there…

Pope Francis has sent a message to followers of the Chaldean Church on the passing of Patriarch Emeritus Cardinal Emmanuel III Delly, who died April 9 at the age of 87. In a message delivered to the Church’s current leader, Patriarch, Raphael Louis Sako I, the Pope stated: “I offer you, the clergy, men and…

A majority of Catholic priests and religious polled in the United States believe that the new English translation of the Mass “urgently needs to be revised”. Priests in 539 parishes nationwide responded to a survey undertaken by the Centre for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) at Georgetown University on the Mass translation which came…

A Catholic priest has been killed in an apparent murder/suicide in Nicaragua.According to investigators, 42-year-old Fr Juan Francisco Blandon Meza was in conversation with two women of his parish of the Immaculate Conception of Mary in Jinotega when the husband of one of the women opened fire on the group, killing his wife and the…