Celebration of the Virga Jesse, Basilica of Hasselt, Belgium, August 2017. / Credit: Virgajessecomité Hasselt
Paris, France, Aug 10, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA).
For the past 340 years in the town of Hasselt in northeastern Belgium, people have been … […]
Belgian prelates Archbishop Luc Terlinden of Mechelen-Brussels (left) and former archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels Cardinal Jozef De Kesel were fined by a Belgian court after they denied a woman entry into a diaconate formation program. / Credit: … […]
Queen Mathilde of Belgium meets with Pope Francis at the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace with her husband, King Philippe of the Belgians, on Sept. 14, 2023. / Credit: Vatican Media
Rome Newsroom, May 20, 2024 / 14:06 pm (CNA).
The Vatican announced … […]
Thursday’s news about the defrocking of Roger Vangheluwe has given us an answer to a question raised with some palpable urgency by another high-profile scandal touching the very echelons of power in the Vatican. The […]
CNA Newsroom, Oct 3, 2022 / 06:30 am The European Court of Human Rights is set to rule in a landmark euthanasia case on Tuesday on whether Belgium wrongly allowed a woman to be euthanized […]
Bishop Luc Van Looy, left, with Archbishop Augustine Kasujja in 2017. / Carolus via Wikimedia (CC BY 4.0).
London, England, Jun 16, 2022 / 10:21 am (CNA).
Pope Francis has accepted a Belgian bishop’s request not to be made a cardinal at a consi… […]
Pope Francis greets participants in a conference on the Italian diaspora in Europe at the Vatican’s Clementine Hall, Nov. 11, 2021. / Vatican Media.
Vatican City, Nov 11, 2021 / 08:00 am (CNA).
Pope Francis said on Thursday that the failure to … […]
Archbishop Stanisław Gądecki, president of the Polish Catholic bishops’ conference. / episkopat.pl.
Warsaw, Poland, Jul 16, 2021 / 13:00 pm (CNA).
The Catholic Church in Poland will hold a day of solidarity with flood victims across Europe.Archb… […]
Abbey brewer Fr. Karel Stautemas and master brewer Marc-Antoine Sochon toast the opening of Grimbergen Abbey Brewery in Belgium. / PRNewsfoto/Grimbergen.
Brussels, Belgium, Jun 3, 2021 / 05:15 am (CNA).
For the first time in 200 years, beer is b… […]
CNA Staff, Mar 1, 2021 / 06:00 am (CNA).- A body representing religious men and women has questioned the exclusion of elderly religious from the early stages of coronavirus vaccination programs in Belgium.
In a letter dated Feb. 19, Br. Robert Thunus,… […]
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