Top German health experts admit vaccines don’t work but still call for booster shots
‘Anyone who enters an indoor space should expect getting infected despite being vaccinated,’ a pro-vaccine politician said.
Pro-abortion premier receives Communion at Mass offered by Melbourne archbishop
Attending the high-profile state funeral of Australian Television personality Bert Newton, Premier Dan Andrews — a self-proclaimed Catholic — received Holy Communion.
Vaccines & Children: What are the risks?
The press conference video will be live-streamed here on Wednesday, November 17 at 12pmEST. A team of nationally acclaimed medical, scientific, and bioethics experts will expose the mounting health risks of the COVID vaccines, particularly for children, to counter the fear messaging promoting unnecessary COVID child vaccination ignoring both immediate and long-term severe risks. The panel […]
Be men and women of hope, pope tells lay Franciscans
ROME — Like St. Francis of Assisi, Christians are called to live among ordinary people as “mirrors of Christ,” Pope Francis said. Addressing participants of the general chapter of the Secular Franciscan Order Nov. 15, the pope called on the lay members to be “men and women who fight for justice, and who work for […]
Vatican releases theme for pope’s 2022 World Peace Day message
ROME — Lasting peace in the world can be achieved only by responding to the needs of current and future generations, the Vatican said as it announced the theme Pope Francis chose for his 2022 World Peace Day message. “Education, work and dialogue between generations: tools for building lasting peace” will be the theme for […]
Employers, courts examine religious exemptions to COVID-19 vaccine mandates
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Religion usually stays out of the workplace, but now with expanding COVID-19 vaccine requirements, employees’ personal faith is front and center as many of them across the country say they have religious reasons not to get vaccinated. To get a religious exemption, employees have to provide reasons for their claim and sometimes […]
Archdiocesan shelter gives Brazilian women ‘the strength to go on’
SÃO PAULO — When a group of laypeople were discussing homelessness during the 2019 World Day of the Poor, Gregorio Ventura pointed out that although there were a few shelters for men in Montes Claros, there were none just for women. So he and others who worked with social commissions in the Archdiocese of Montes […]
President of Communion and Liberation announces he’s stepping down
ROME — Complying with new Vatican rules placing term limits on the leadership of Catholic lay movements and associations, Spanish Father Julián Carrón, president of Communion and Liberation, has announced he is stepping down from the office he has held since 2005. “I have decided to submit my resignation as president of the fraternity of […]
Vatican releases program for papal trip to Cyprus, Greece
ROME — Visiting Cyprus and Greece in early December, Pope Francis will have several meetings with the countries’ Orthodox leaders and with the migrants and refugees their nations host. While Catholics account for only a small percentage of the Christians in both countries, the pope will hold meetings in both Nicosia and Athens with priests, […]
Latin America’s bishops to confront increasing poverty after COVID-19
MEXICO CITY — During the pandemic, parishes in the Diocese of Valle de Chalco on the outskirts of Mexico City have made care packages, taken meals to families of COVID-19 patients and operated food banks. But they are seeing more and more problems from the pandemic. “You see poverty, you see it increasing, and what […]