Irish delegate says seminar was “very valuable”

Hope has been hit hard by conflict

“They were too quick to hand out the abortion pills,” mother said.

The Catholic Church in Canada and the USA

Gardaí in Dublin are investigating a vandal attack on a cemetery in the city in which the graves of deceased babies were damaged. The attack, on the Dean’s Grange cemetery in the south of the capital is believed to have occurred sometime during the night of July 3-4 and saw a number of headstones badly…

Justo Martinez has devoted his life to a single construction project

Hierarchy defends new Roman Missal

“A Christian without Our Lady is an orphan. Also a Christian without the Church is an orphan. A Christian is in need of these two women, two women mothers, two virgin women: the Church and Our Lady.” Pope Francis, speaking to Roman youngsters visiting the Vatican’s Marian Grotto   “On the horizon, we do not…

‘Level of services from priests will have to change’

The Holy See has named Archbishop Bernardito C. Auza as its new Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York. The former Apostolic Nuncio to Haiti replaces India’s Archbishop Francis Assisi Chullikatt. A native of the Philippines, Archbishop Auza was ordained in 1985 and is a veteran Holy See diplomat, having served in Bulgaria,…