It’s hard to discuss detrimental environmental effects of using the diesel fuel needed to run generators in Gaza when people only have three hours of government-provided electricity a day, Tahani Abu Daqqa, former Palestinian Minister of Culture, has said. Catholics are influenced by the environment in which they live, so while Catholics living in Israel…
Heeding a call from Toronto Cardinal Thomas Collins to “speak more loudly by silence” Canada’s largest pro-life march reversed course after it was blocked for at least 20 minutes by a counter protest. An estimated 75-100 demonstrators in favour of allowing abortion, some wearing black bandanas over their faces, screamed chants and waved signs, halting…
The Church in Cameroon said shots were fired at the residence of Archbishop Samuel Kleda, president of the bishops’ conference, after he criticised policies by the government of President Paul Biya. “Projectiles were shot at the Archdiocese of Douala headquarters, breaking its windows,” the local vicar general Msgr Dieudonne Bayemeg said in a statement. “There…
Trial starts for Vatican official accused of embezzlement The Vatican has accused a former director of the Vatican bank and his lawyer of money laundering and embezzlement, saying the men skimmed an estimated €57 million off profits from the sale of Vatican properties. The trial of Angelo Caloia, who served as president of the Institute for the Works of Religion, the formal…
Junno Arocho Esteves While taking selfies can be an occasion to capture treasured memories, it can also be a sign that young men and women are deprived of meaningful human interaction with others Pope Francis said. The Pontiff responded to questions yesterday, May 14, at a meeting with 1,700 priests and lay leaders of…
Bishop John Keenan of Paisley has criticised a video on homophobia posted by BBC Scotland in which the Eucharist is parodied, being said to “taste like cardboard” and “smell like hate”. The video ‘This is how homophobia feels in 2018’ was posted on April 9 on the Facebook page of BBC The Social, a project…
For more than 50 years, the writings of retired Pope Benedict XVI on the relationship between Faith and politics have insisted that the measure of human freedom is the extent to which each person acknowledges being dependent on the love of God, Pope Francis wrote. The future Pope’s “direct experience of Nazi totalitarianism led him…
Eight bishops’ conferences in Latin America have joined efforts to assist Venezuelans in transit through or settling in their home countries with the help of the Migrant and Refugee Section of the Vatican Dicastery for the Promotion of Integral Human Development,. Called ‘Bridges of Solidarity’, the two-year pastoral program seeks to “find common solutions to…
Pope Francis asked the bishops of Germany to continue working together to find broader consensus on guidelines for allowing a Protestant married to a Catholic to receive the Eucharist. “Pope Francis appreciates the ecumenical commitment of the German bishops and asks them to find, in a spirit of ecclesial communion, a result as unanimously as…
In front of a small crowd of cabinet members and religious leaders at the White House Rose Garden, President Donald Trump announced, and then signed, an executive order giving Faith-based groups a stronger voice in the federal government. “It’s a great day,” he said after signing the order and passing out pens to religious leaders…