(Chandler Peterson. Global Christian Relief) Ask yourself: Could you summon the courage to survive as a persecuted prisoner of Boko Haram if extremists captured you, compelled you into multiple marriages and forced…
Day: May 17, 2024
Pope urges global leaders, U.S. governors to take urgent climate action
(National Catholic Reporter. Justin Mclellan). Pope Francis urged three U.S. governors and a group of mayors from around the world to work with international partners in developing a “holistic” approach to climate…
Controversial Chinese bishop to speak at Vatican conference
(Crux. Elise Ann Allen). Next week a high-profile conference will be held marking the centenary of the Catholic Church’s first ever council in China, drawing a slew of experts and featuring prominent…
Patriarca Bartolomé: “La postura de Kirill en Ucrania es despreciable”.
(Vida Nueva. Miguel Ángel Malavia). Con el fin de conocer el impacto de este hito histórico, Vida Nueva contacta con el patriarca constantinopolitano. En una breve entrevista, Bartolomé también repasa su reciente…
Il Papa: la distruzione della terra offende Dio, lavorare a una cultura della vita
(Vatican News. Salvatore Cernuzio). l dilemma è capire se “stiamo lavorando per una cultura della vita o una cultura della morte”, a una cultura cioè di totale distruzione del pianeta che rappresenta…
Editorial: Is the US church really taking ‘a step back in time’?
(National Catholic Reporter). It was a bit jarring to see a recent secular media account of how some parishes are being taken over by extreme right bishops — especially when it was…
Hagee: Antisemitism bill in Congress doesn’t violate Bible’s account of Jesus’ death
(John Hagee. Religión News). Members of Congress have claimed the legislation will stifle a false theology that ‘the Jews killed Jesus.’ Deicide, the charge of killing God, has been used to justify…
Rodrigo Guerra: “Es necesario renovar el Compendio de la Doctrina Social de la Iglesia”.
(Vida Nueva. Mateo González Alonso). El 15 de mayo se ha celebrado el Día de las Encíclicas Sociales. ¿Qué importancia tiene la Doctrina social de la Iglesia hoy? ¿Qué novedades han aparecido…
Cosa può essere definito soprannaturale? Le nuove norme della Dottrina della Fede
(Angela Ambrogetti. ACI Stampa). Una serie di norme che non venivano riviste dal 1978, che nei tempi della Chiesa non è tantissimo, ma per i ritmi dei media contemporanei e dei social…
Bartolomé anuncia que Francisco y él peregrinarán juntos a Nicea durante el Jubileo de 2025
(Religión Digital. Jesús Bastante). “Su Santidad el Papa Francisco desea celebrar juntos este importante aniversario y tiene previsto venir a nuestro país para visitar el Patriarcado de Constantinopla, y después nos dirigiremos juntos…
Why does Pope Francis want to go to Belgium
(National Catholic Reporter. Christopher White). When the Second Vatican Council opened in 1962, the influential French Dominican theologian Fr. Yves Congar is said to have remarked that it was the Council of Louvain,…
A look at the bishop of Hong Kong’s recent visit to mainland China
(CNA. Courtney Mares). Cardinal Stephen Chow recently visited three Catholic dioceses in mainland China, one year after the bishop of Hong Kong’s first historic trip to Beijing. Chow led a 10-person delegation…
Migranti: da inizio anno sbarcate 18.550 persone sulle nostre coste. Oltre 2.400 a maggio
(SIR). Sono finora 18.550 le persone migranti sbarcate sulle coste da inizio anno. Nello stesso periodo, lo scorso anno furono 45.507 mentre nel 2022 furono 15.004. Il dato è stato diffuso dal…
It’s Time to Double Down on Casti Connubii
(Daniel B. Gallagher. Crisis magazine). Legendary mutual fund manager Peter Lynch teaches that investors should “let their winners pay for their losers.” In other words, hold on to companies that show good financials…
First city in Poland bans religious symbols
(Katholisch). Warsaw’s mayor has banned religious symbols such as crucifixes in state offices. Office employees are also not allowed to have religious symbols on their workstations, reports the Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza…
ASIA/INDONESIA – Cento anni di missione per i Vescovi indonesiani: portatori di speranza, aspettando il Papa
(Agenzia Fides). Da cento anni la missione della Chiese in Indonesia è quella di essere portatrice di speranza, e la missione dei Vescovi è guidare una “comunità della speranza”, “camminando insieme per il…
Suore abusate da preti: una piaga nascosta da denunciare
(La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana. Nico Spuntoni) Non c’è solo Rupnik: i casi di violenza di consacrati su suore sono un fenomeno nascosto che non si vuole denunciare. «Le suore avvicinano il pastore per un…
Church and communism: Thoughts on a confession from Pope Francis
(Kath. Lothar C. Rilinger). “Communism, as it appears to us in the Communist Manifesto of 1848, in Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Mao Tse-Tung, Pol Pot… is essentially atheism.” Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller in…
Santuário Nacional de Aparecida inaugura novo mosaico do padre Rupnik na fachada sul.
(Nathália Queiroz. ACIDIGITAL). O Santuário Nacional de Aparecida, em Aparecida (SP), inaugurou no sábado (11), os mosaicos de sua fachada sul, com cenas do Novo Testamento que narram desde o nascimento de…
Washington bishops vs. state AG: Who has a point?
(The Pillar. Ed. Condon). The Washington state attorney general is seeking a court order to enforce a sweeping subpoena of Church records from the state’s three dioceses, claiming the bishops are obstructing…
With pope’s support, Argentina’s Church looks at life of bishop supposedly killed by dictatorship.
(Eduardo Campos Lima. CRUX). Argentina’s Church set up a committee to study the life and work of late Bishop Carlos Ponce de León, a renowned human rights defender whose tragic death in…
Padres da arquidiocese de Porto Alegre relatam drama das paróquias inundadas.
(Monasa Narjara. ACIDIGITAL). As fortes chuvas que assolam o Rio Grande do Sul desde o fim de abril afetaram 31 igrejas dos quatro vicariatos da arquidiocese de Porto Alegre. “Pela altura que…
La Iglesia no puede ser obligada por el lobby LGBTIQ a modificar el sexo real en las Actas de Bautismo.
(ACN). El Tribunal Colegiado Federal de Apelaciones del Vigésimo Segundo Circuito en México ha confirmado los derechos constitucionales de autonomía de la Diócesis Católica de Querétaro en México. Con el apoyo legal de ADF…
L’hotel abusivo in Vaticano da mille euro per due notti: 6.500 euro di multa e un problema per Papa Francesco
(OPEN). Un complesso sistema di false fatture per ottenere crediti di imposta sfruttando i bonus edilizi, con centinaia di aziende che lo avevano replicato dal nord al sud Italia. La Guardia di…
Woman sues church because she is not allowed to become a deacon
We don’t know German neither, but we hit the button for automatic translation into our language because the article is interesting 😊 (Katholisch). Eine Frau in Belgien verklagt die katholische Kirche, weil sie…
Indian Christians seek end to police checks on churches
(UCAnews. Bijay Kumar Minj). A Christian forum in India’s northeastern Assam state has appealed to the district authorities to stop a police survey of churches, which has caused panic among community members. The…
Catholic Diocese seeks to convert teachers working in its state schools
(Humkanists UK). A project led by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Southwark which has the express aim to convert non-Catholic staff working in state-funded Catholic schools has been condemned by Humanists UK,…
Toronto Catholic Schools Allow Pride Flag, Reject Pro-Life Flag
(National Catholic Register. Charles Lewis). There are some ideas so fundamental to Catholic teaching that they must be accepted by Catholics without question. Opposition to abortion and opposition to euthanasia are two…