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Father Daniel Lahart, SJ, the president of Regis High School in New York since 2016, “engaged in inappropriate and unwelcome verbal communications and physical conduct, all of a sexual nature, with adult members of the Regis community, including …
Read More“Prudent health precautions will still be taken by every parish, but as the worst of the pandemic seems to be behind us, and access to COVID-19 vaccines for those who desire to receive it has increased, the time has come that the general dispensa…
Read MoreIn May 2020, Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Binzer. A 2019 investigation revealed that Bishop Binzer had withheld information about reported sexual abuse by a priest.
Read MoreThe desecration took place in the central Mexican state of Querétaro (map).
Read More“These founders could not have prospered if they had not had in front of them a court of disciples under their influence, who adulated them, who gave them an image of sanctity, who did not see or did not want to see,” said the author, C…
Read MoreA police officer’s fatal shooting of Daunte Wright in a Minneapolis suburb sparked protests and unrest.
Read MoreThe South American nation of 16.9 million (map) is 84% Catholic and 11% Protestant. “I have my personal position, but as president of Ecuador I will have to recognize that there are 17 million Ecuadorans with different ways of thinking,” Gu…
Read MoreThe government has ordered the closure of two camps that house 410,000 refugees, most of whom are expected to be repatriated to Somalia.
Read MoreFaisalabad, a city of 3.5 million, is Pakistan’s third-largest city.
Read More“The two areas where Australian Catholic Safeguarding Ltd recommended additional attention related to people attending events and monitoring the online environment,” according to the media release.
Read More“It is not true that the secular system is opposed to religion; on the contrary, the civil system does not deprive people of the right to practice their faith according to personal conviction and, at the same time, it does not oblige them to prof…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 13, 2021 | Caribbean, Caritas, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, Natural disasters, News, volcano |
Despite COVID-19 restrictions and various challenges posed by continuous volcanic eruptions and ashfall on St. Vincent and the Grenadines and neighboring islands, dioceses in the West Indies have rallied to the aid of those affected by La Soufrière volcano.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 13, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Africa, Kenya, Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops, migrants and refugees, News |
Catholic bishops in Kenya are urging the government to shelve plans to close two refugee camps in the north, which host refugees who fled civil war and famine in Somalia and South Sudan.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 13, 2021 | Associated Press, California, Church in the US, COVID-19 pandemic, News, U.S. Supreme Court, worship |
California on Monday lifted its limits on indoor worship services in the face of U.S. Supreme Court rulings that struck down the coronavirus public health mandates.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 13, 2021 | Arkansas, Associated Press, Church in the US, Hate crimes, LGBT, News, Religious Freedom |
Arkansas lawmakers on Monday approved a stripped-down alternative to hate crimes legislation that longtime supporters of such laws have criticized as not providing true protections following a succession of new measures restricting the rights of transgender people.
Read More“Venezuela’s vaccination campaign is behind most other countries in the region,” Reuters recently reported, though “ numbers remain low compared to other countries.”
Read MoreAccording to recently released Vatican statistics, the world’s Catholic population continues to rise amid a decline in the number of seminarians and sisters. In 2019, the nations with the highest number of priestly ordinations were India (415), …
Read More“While we have a new administration and it’s a new day, injustice persists,” said the Presbyterian minister who is CEO of Faith in Public Life. Eight Catholic organizations joined in the interfaith call to “find the missing pare…
Read MoreImo State (map) is located in southern Nigeria.
Read MoreCatholicism is the state religion of the Mediterranean nation of 457,000 (map). 96% of residents are Christian, and 94% are Catholic.
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