The announcement on July 1, 2017, that Pope Francis has appointed curial Archbishop Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer as the new Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith surprised even many Vatican watchers […]
Christians have always been “Resident Aliens,” the title of the first chapter of Archbishop Charles Chaput’s new book, Strangers in a Strange Land: Living the Catholic Faith in a Post-Christian World. But “we [Americans] live in […]
The good news about the post-synodal exhortation Amoris Laetitia, “On Love in the Family,” is that none of the outrageous statements and proposals that marred the prefabricated 2014 “Synod Report” made it into the final […]
The Vatican Press Office announced on Monday, April 4, in a communiqué issued by the vice-director, Greg Burke, that a meeting took place in the Casa Santa Marta on Saturday, April 2, between Pope Francis and Bishop […]
Berlin (kath.net, February 26, 2016). “In Germany, congregations are growing, and there are mass baptisms of refugees in swimming pools.” So reports Die Tagesschau, a German television news program. The refugees, who come from Iran […]
(Saint Sophia Association/UGCC Information Resource) On Monday, February 23, at the Vatican, His Beatitude Sviatoslav [Shevchuk], Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, held a press conference for representatives of international publications who are accredited […]
(Gènéthique, January 29, 2015) – During preparations for the European Forum on Bioethics that is being held in Strasbourg from February 2-7, 2015, Professor Israël Nisand, president and founder of that forum, published an editorial […]
Regensburg (kath.net/Diocese of Regensburg). Internationally renowned philosopher Prof. Robert Spaemann speaks in this interview with Julia Wächter about the paradoxical shifts in the concept of dignity, about the dangers that would result from the legalization […]
(Information Resource of the UGCC, January 24, 2015) The Father and Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, His Beatitude Sviatoslav, expressed sympathy to the relatives and friends of the people who died on Saturday, […]
(Vatican Radio, January 21, 2015) To commemorate the 500th anniversary of the Reformation in 2017, the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity (PCPCU) and the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) will soon publish a joint declaration. […]
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