Catholic bishops in Kenya urge government to address doctors strike
Members of the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB). / Credit: KCCB ACI Africa, Apr 13, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA). Members of the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB) are calling on the Kenyan government to “speedily” address the conc… […]
Sudan civil war leaves no seminarians and almost no Catholic Church
A priest celebrates Mass in Sudan before the outset of war. / Credit: ACN ACI Prensa Staff, Apr 13, 2024 / 08:30 am (CNA). The third Sudanese civil war has terribly affected the entire country but especially the local Catholic Church, which — a… […]
OSV News Showcase | April 12, 2024
Good evening! This week’s big news came Monday. Yes, there was a major astronomical event. For those viewing from the path of totality, I hear, the Great North American Solar Eclipse lived up to the hype. (It was, admittedly, pretty uneventful from my position in non-totality, cloud-covered Minnesota, so now I’m waiting with bated breath […]
Washington Roundup: GOP recalculates on abortion; Biden axes student debt; ‘Disagree Better’ begins
WASHINGTON (OSV News) — After former President Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, issued a statement April 8 arguing abortion should be left to individual states to legislate — and declining to back federal restrictions sought by pro-life activists blaming them for GOP electoral defeats — several Republican elected officials and candidates backed his […]
Iraq’s Cardinal Louis Raphaël Sako Returns to Baghdad After Self-Imposed 9-Month Exile…
Cardinal Louis Raphaël Sako returned to Baghdad Wednesday at the personal invitation of the country’s prime minister, nine months after leaving the Iraqi capital. The leader of the Chaldean Catholic Church left Baghdad in July 2023, in protest at a decision by Iraq’s president to rescind a 2013 civil decree recognizing him as the head […]
Bishop Strickland: Biden’s excommunication would be a ‘medicinal’ way of calling him to repentance
On Part 1 of this week’s episode of The Bishop Strickland Show, Bishop Joseph Strickland explains the significance and necessity of baptism and why excommunicating President Joe Biden would be more charitable than allowing him to claim to be a good Catholic.Read More
Ruffec: Taking the Habit and Religious Profession Ceremony – 2024
On Sunday April 7, 2024, Sunday in Albis or Quasimodo Sunday, Bishop Alfonso de Galarreta celebrated a Pontifical Mass in the priory church of Saint-Martial de Ruffec. During the Mass, the taking of the habit and religious professions of Sisters of the Society of Saint Pius X occurred.
ROME 24/4– Day 24: Fave and vongole with The Great Roman™
The time of the sun’s rise on Rome was 06:30. We shall be deprived of its gaze at 19:51. The Ave Maria should ring at 20. It is the Feast of St. Martin, Pope and Martyr. San Martino ai Monti … Read More →
Pope Francis approves decrees for new Italian Saint and two Blesseds from Spain
Pope Francis approves the canonization of the foundress of the Oblates of the Holy Spirit and the beatfication of a priest and a layman murdered in 1936 during the Spanish Civil War. Read all
Pope Francis offers consolation and prayers to victims of Sydney attack
In a telegram signed by Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin, Pope Francis says he is “deeply saddened” by an attack at a Sydney, Australia, shopping centre that left six people dead. He assures the victims of his prayers and spiritual closeness. Read all