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Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk records a video message on March 4, 2022. / Screenshot from news.ugcc.ua.
Kyiv, Ukraine, Mar 4, 2022 / 05:40 am (CNA).
The leader of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church said on Friday that the war risks crea…
Oriol Junqueras, a leftist politician who served as vice-president of the brief-lived independent state of Catalonia in 2016-2017, and who was later sentenced to prison for sedition by a Spanish court before being released in 2021, spoke to Crux.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 4, 2022 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, migrants and refugees, News, tigray, war crimes |
As Catholic officials in Tigray continue to call for meaningful peace talks and an end to atrocities and the humanitarian aid blockade, an international refugees organization is warning that Eritrean refugees in the northern region have nowhere to run.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 4, 2022 | Archdiocese of Washington, Bishop Borys Gudziak, Cardinal Wilton Gregory, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, President Joe Biden, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis |
Washington Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory prayed and expressed solidarity with the people of Ukraine as they are enduring a brutal Russian military invasion of their country.
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Titus Brandsma and Charles de Foucauld. / GaHetNa (Nationaal Archief NL)/Public domain.
Vatican City, Mar 4, 2022 / 04:00 am (CNA).
The World War II martyr Titus Brandsma and two other blesseds will be declared saints at a canonization Mass on …
Posted by bcadmin | Mar 4, 2022 | Biden Administration, Bishop Mario Dorsonville, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, immigrants and refugees, immigration reform, News |
Representatives from the business sector, faith groups and grassroots organizations sent Congress a letter March 2 urging lawmakers to act on immigration because “simply put, the system is broken.”
Read MoreThe pope has often expressed his closeness to people of the two African countries that suffer violence and political instability
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 4, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, lead, News, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis, Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church |
Church leaders in embattled Ukraine have warned that foreign missionaries could be targeted by attacking forces, while many could be branded “NATO spies” if Russia occupies the country.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 4, 2022 | Archbishop Gabriele Giordano Caccia, Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, General assembly, Holy See diplomacy, Holy See Mission to the UN, Holy See Mission to the United Nations, News, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis, United Nations, Vatican diplomacy |
During an emergency special session of the U.N. General Assembly March 2, Archbishop Gabriele Caccia said the Vatican joins other nations in calling for the immediate cessation of hostilities in Ukraine and a return to diplomacy and dialogue.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 4, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in the US, clerical sexual abuse, News, Pennsylvania |
A western Pennsylvania Catholic priest who sexually assaulted an altar boy for several years has been sentenced to 2 1/2 to five years in state prison.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 4, 2022 | Featured, News, Politics, Weekly Headlines |
The treatment of one of the January 6th protesters gives us every reason to be afraid of our own government.
Posted by bcadmin | Mar 4, 2022 | Bishop Appointment, Bishop Daniel Jenky, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Diocese of Peoria, News |
Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Bishop Daniel R. Jenky of Peoria and Coadjutor Bishop Louis Tylka of Peoria immediately succeeds him, becoming the ninth bishop of Peoria.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 4, 2022 | Asia - Pacific, News |
Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, pictured on May 12, 2016. / Mazur/catholicnews.org.uk.
Yangon, Burma, Mar 4, 2022 / 03:07 am (CNA).
Cardinal Charles Maung Bo said on Friday that the “nightmare scenario” of a global nuclear holocaust was “becoming a …
The US Conference of Catholic Bishops has filed an amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief on behalf of Joseph Kennedy, a football coach in Washington State. In 2021, a federal appellate court ruled that his post-game prayers on the football filed vi…
Read MoreGabriel Osaheni Aghedo, who has lived in Japan since 1991, has been threatened with death by the jihadist terrorist group if he returns to his native Nigeria.
Read MoreVisting the Ukrainian Catholic cathedral in London, the heir to the throne hailed the “extraordinary bravery, generosity and fortitude of the Ukrainian community.”
Read MoreCardinal Wilton Gregory traveled to the White House on Ash Wednesday to impose ashes on President Biden, The Hill reported.
Church discipline permits the imposition of ashes outside of Mass on Ash Wednesday.
“We obviously spoke about the…
Read MoreThe vandalism took place at Holy Family Catholic Church in Jacksonville. Since May 2020, there have been at least 123 acts of vandalism, arson, and other destruction at parishes and other Catholic sites in the United States.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 4, 2022 | Brazil, Catholic politicians, Catholics and politics, Church in Africa, Elections, faith and politics, Jair Bolsonaro, lead, News, President Lula Da Silva |
Seven months ahead of the Brazilian election, President Jair Bolsonaro and former President Luiz Inácio da Silva are engaged on a fierce battle for the Evangelical vote, which was decisive for Bolsonaro’s victory in 2018.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 4, 2022 | Featured, News, Politics, Weekly Headlines |
The Russia/Ukrainian conflict threatens to spill over into neighboring countries. If it moves to Poland, we would do well to listen to Sr. Faustina’s warnings.
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