Pope Francis accepted the resignation of the Bishop of São José do Rio Preto last Wednesday, five days after a sexually explicit video of the bishop was shared on the internet. Bishop Tomé Ferreira da Silva, 60, led the Diocese of São José do Rio Preto from November 16, 2012, until August 18. His resignation…
John Lavenburg When Dr Fonie Pierre looks around the streets of Les Cayes the word that comes to her mind is “desolation”. “No businesses are open. People are in streets. There is no shelter,” Ms Pierre, head of the Catholic Relief Services Les Cayes office told Crux. “There are needs for food, water, every basic need.”…
Pope Francis saddened by attack which killed nuns in South Sudan Pope Francis has sent his condolences after a violent attack on a group of Catholic religious sisters and others in South Sudan left five dead last week. “His Holiness Pope Francis was deeply saddened to learn of the brutal attack on a group of…
Faith leaders concerned over online censorship of religious speech YouTube’s blocking of a theologian’s talk on the Christian view of sex as a “content violation” raises serious concerns that “religious speech is being censored online”, San Francisco’s archbishop and Focus on the Family’s president said in a Wall Street Journal op-ed they co-wrote. “Today’s sexual…
Pope Francis said Wednesday that hypocrisy within the Church is “particularly detestable.” Speaking at the general audience in the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall on August 25, the Pope underlined that hypocritical behaviour damaged Church unity. “Hypocrisy in the Church is particularly detestable, and unfortunately there is hypocrisy in the Church, and there are many hypocritical Christians and…
As a wave of wildfires devastated parts of Greece, a Catholic archbishop said different policies might be needed to help prevent recurrences. “We must be much more sensitive and careful when it comes to ecology and preparedness – we don’t have many forests in Greece anyway, and much of what we have is now destroyed,”…
The attorney general of Sri Lanka has requested the chief justice appoint a special trial-at-bar to hear cases against 25 suspects accused of involvement in the 2019 Easter attacks that killed 279 people, including 37 foreign nationals in three cities. The 23,270 charges filed include conspiracy, preparation, aiding and abetting, collection of explosives and weapons,…
An English bishop called on Catholics of his diocese to pray for the victims of a shooting spree in which a 3-year-old girl and four others were murdered. Bishop Mark O’Toole of Plymouth, a diocese that covers the southwest corner of England, described the August 12 massacre as “terrible.” “It is with a deep sense…
An anti-Catholic video targeting the election campaign of a potential successor to Angela Merkel has drawn criticism from bishops and politicians in Germany amid growing concerns about a wider erosion of religious freedom in an increasingly secular Europe. The video was published online and shown at an election event of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) in early…
Cardinal Chibly Langlois, Bishop of Les Cayes and president of Haiti’s Bishops’ Conference, has been injured, while a Catholic priest died early in the morning of August 14 after a 7.2 intensity earthquake shook Haiti. Speaking to ACI Prensa, Akim Kikonda, Director for Catholic Relief Services (CRS) in Haiti, said that Cardinal Langlois “is hurt,…
