Tanzania’s bishops oppose port agreement with Dubai-based company (Vatican News)
The government of Tanzania has signed an agreement entrusting management of its ports to a Dubai-based company and has arrested critics of the deal. “The majority of citizens do not want investments with such bad conditions in all our ports,” the bishops said in a statement. “Since the government is accountable to the people, the […]
Pope makes Pan-American Committee of Judges a private association of faithful (Vatican News)
The Pan-American Committee of Judges for Social Rights and Franciscan Doctrine (COPAJU) arose from a 2019 meeting between the Pope and Latin American judges in Rome. The Pope has now recognized the organization as an international private association of the faithful and has created the Fray Bartolomé de las Casas Institute of Legal Research as […]
German Catholic lay group considers banning political party’s members from positions (European Conservative)
Irme Stetter-Karp, president of the Central Committee of German Catholics, said that “over the years, the party [Alternative for Germany] has moved further and further to the right. And it is clear that anti-Semitic, racist, and inhuman attitudes and statements have no place in a Catholic organization.” The party holds 78 out of 736 seats […]
In wake of latest attacks, Pakistan Christians denounce ‘second-class status’ (Crux)
Mobs of Muslim zealots burned Christian churches and homes outside Faisalabad on August 16, in a violent protest sparked by reports of desecration of the Qu’ran. Islam is the official religion of the South Asian nation of 243 million (map), the fifth most populous in the world. 97% of Pakistan’s people are Muslim.
Jesuits condemn seizure of priests’ residence in Managua (National Catholic Reporter)
Following the shutdown of the Jesuit-run Central American University (UCA), the Ortega regime in Nicaragua ordered members of the Society of Jesus to leave their residence in Managua, the nation’s capital. Daniel Ortega, a leader of the Marxist Sandinistas who overthrew the authoritarian regime of Gen. Anastasio Somoza Debayle, ruled Nicaragua from the 1979 Sandinista […]
Pope calls grieving mother of son who died at World Youth Day (CNA)
Luca Re Sartù, 24, died after contracting a bacterial staph infection during his World Youth Day pilgrimage. Auxiliary Bishop Luca Raimondi of Milan said at young man’s funeral that the Pope had called his mother to console her. “What the mother said to me,” Bishop Raimondi said, “was, word for word, ‘When you see him […]
Bishop Howard Hubbard dies at 84 (Pillar)
Bishop Howard Hubbard, who recently contracted a civil marriage with “a wonderful woman who has helped and cared for me and who believes in me,” has died of a stroke. The civil marriage had resulted in his automatic suspension under canon law. The prelate, who was accused of sexually abusing nine boys, was bishop of […]
Fort Worth bishop: Carmelite nuns might be excommunicated (Pillar)
Bishop Michael Olson of Fort Worth (TX), granted extraordinary powers by the Vatican over the local Discalced Carmelites, dismissed the superior, Mother Teresa Agnes Gerlach, from religious life on June 1. She has appealed the decision to the Vatican. On August 18, the nuns stated that “we no longer recognize the authority of, and can […]
St. Jane Frances de Chantal founded a religious order with the help of St. Francis de Sales
If the saint proposed to our veneration today, St. Jane Frances de Chantal, is not adorned with the diadem of virginity, she is nevertheless one of those who have deserved in their humility to hear the heavenly message: ‘Hearken, O daughter, and see, and incline thy ear; and forget thy people and thy father’s house.’Read […]
Pope Francis writing a second environmental document after Laudato si’
Pope Francis presides over a Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome on July 23, 2023, for the World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly. / Pablo Esparza/EWTN Vatican City, Aug 21, 2023 / 03:45 am (CNA). Pope Francis announced during an audience with lawyers Monday that he is writing a second part to his […]