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Posted by bcadmin | May 26, 2021 | Bishops Conference of England and Wales, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in UK and Ireland, euthanasia, Great Britain, News, Physician-assisted suicide, UK Parliament, United Kingdom |
England and Wales face “the very real threat” of assisted suicide becoming law, the bishops warned Catholics on the eve of the introduction of new bill to legalize the practice.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 26, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Diocese of La Crosse, News, Wisconsin |
Father James Altman, pastor of St. James the Less Parish in La Crosse, Wisconsin, told Massgoers May 23 that Bishop William P. Callahan has asked him to resign because he is “divisive” and “ineffective.”
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 26, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Catholic Reformation, Church in Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Natural disasters, News, volcano |
A missionary priest in eastern Congo is warning of a crisis after a volcanic eruption flattened homes, destroyed structures and left thousands of people displaced near the city of Goma.
Read MoreTeenage girls and unmarried women from ethnic minority communities are particularly at risk of falling victim to traffickers
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 26, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in UK and Ireland, England, Great Britain, News, relics, Scotland, United Kingdom |
Burglars have stolen a set of golden rosary beads that once belonged to Mary, Queen of Scots.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 26, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Haiti, immigrants and refugees, News, President Joe Biden, Temporary Protected Status, TPS |
Haitians with a special immigration status in the U.S. have been granted an extension so that they can continue to live and work legally in the country, or apply to do so.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 26, 2021 | Church, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
With the news that conservative priest Fr. James Altman has been asked by his bishop to resign, one is faced with the contrast between Fr. James Altman and another controversial priest, Fr. James Martin, SJ. Both priests have somewhat of a prophetic voice in the Church—Fr. Altman from the conservative side and Fr. Martin from […]
After a meeting with the Vatican’s Secretary for Relation with States, Lord Tariq Ahmad spoke of “insightful conversations on importance of UK efforts to defend freedom of religion or belief for all and protect the most marginalized commun…
Read More“Then he saw my ring and said give me that ring,” said Bishop Michael Barber, SJ, who was robbed during daylight as he as walking and praying the Rosary. “I was afraid. I’d rather have my life, so I gave him the ring.”
Read More“Catholic school systems in Ontario are taxpayer-funded, and schools are not owned by the dioceses in which they operate,” according to a report on a similar action by Toronto’s Catholic school board. “While bishops set cateche…
Read More“Under the helm of Rodrigo Duterte, the Philippines had been living in a bed of untruths,” the Seminarians’ Network of the Philippines said in a statement. A “narrow moral worldview motivated Duterte to demonize minorities, sile…
Read More“Many Palestinian Christians have embraced martyrdom with our Muslim brothers,” said Archbishop Sebastian Shaw of Lahore. “We condemn violence by Israel and urge peace so that the locals can live with dignity.”
Read MoreBorn in 1934, Gregory Peter XX Ghabroyan was elected the Catholicos-Patriarch of Cilicia, and thus head of the Armenian Catholic Church, in 2015. The church is among the Eastern Catholic churches in full communion with the Holy See.
Read MoreGojra is a city of 175,000 in Punjab (map), Pakistan’s most populous province.
Read More“Citizens are losing faith in the government because it fails to fulfill its main constitutional responsibility which is the protection of the life and property of its citizens,” Bishop Stephen Mamza of Yola said as abductions continued. &l…
Read MoreTPS (temporary protected status) allows residents of some unsafe countries to live and work in the US.
Read More“Dear young people, you have chosen to place yourself at the service of human dignity, to make yourself close to those who are excluded, homeless, rejected, often betrayed in their rights,” Pope Francis said in his address to members of th…
Read MoreBorn in 1948, Cardinal Louis Raphaël I Sako became Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church in 2013. The church (CNEWA profile) is among the Eastern Catholic churches in full communion with the Holy See.
Read MoreThe prayer at an Ontario Catholic school “caused distress and offense to many in the school community,” the school board said in a statement. “We understand that there is a petition circulating asking ‘the Niagara Catholic Distr…
Read MoreBishop Peter Baldacchino of Las Cruces had earlier removed capacity restrictions.
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