On the first full day of the Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, Pope Francis encouraged participants to speak their minds while remaining open to the contributions of others. “You have to say […]
…you really need to be, given the confusion and speculation swirling around the subject ahead of October’s General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops. All of Dr. Peters’ recent posts on the subject are required […]
The AP broke the story, and local media is now confirming, that Bishop Blase Cupich of Spokane will succeed Cardinal Francis George as archbishop of Chicago. The Archdiocese of Chicago is expected to make the […]
Eight Eastern Christian leaders met yesterday with President Barack Obama, at the close of a three-day conference in Washington, DC aimed at strengthening ties between Christian communities in the Middle East and at raising awareness […]
Last weekend three Italian religious sisters serving in Burundi were brutally murdered in their convent. Yesterday, a man was arrested and confessed to the crime, according to police: [The killer] was found with the cellphone […]
The day after Bishop Daniel Jenky of Peoria, Ill. announced that the sainthood cause of Ven. Fulton Sheen had been suspended by the Vatican “for the foreseeable future,” the Archdiocese of New York released its […]
From Catholic News Service comes this story of an Iraqi Christian woman who says Islamic State militants snatched her three-year-old daughter while the child sat next to her on a bus August 24. The abduction […]
The news broke late yesterday that Islamic State jihadists executed freelance journalist James Foley and posted a video of his beheading. Foley, 40, had been missing for two years while covering the conflict in Syria. […]
The two young sons of Pope Francis’ nephew, as well as their mother, were killed in a car crash this morning, according to police in Argentina. From the UK Catholic Herald: The accident occurred earlier […]
Hundreds of thousands of people filled a main thoroughfare in Seoul on August 16 to greet Pope Francis and attend the open-air Mass at which he beatified 124 Korean martyrs. The beatification Mass was the […]
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