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Cardinal da Rocha: “Too much aggression in social media”- Also Carnival highlighted the violence

There is too much violence in social media and aggression “is shared by many Catholics present in social networks”: this is the alarm launched by Cardinal Sergio da Rocha, Archbishop of Brasilia and president of the Brazilian National Episcopal Conference (CNBB). “It is a grave sin to use the name of God or any religion […]

Nun dies in court pleading against convent sale

After 89 years on Earth, Sister Catherine Rose Holzman looked into a camera on March 11 and addressed what would turn out to be some of her last words to Katy Perry, the pop star. “Katy Perry, please stop,” the nun said on Fox 11 in Los Angeles. Please stop trying to buy the Sisters […]

Survey: Pope Francis is still popular, but warm feelings waning among conservatives

Five years after Pope Francis ascended to the papacy, a new survey of U.S. Catholics reports that most still harbour warm feelings toward the pontiff — but his popularity is waning among political conservatives. According to a new study from the Pew Research Centre, the first Latin American pope retains a soaring 84 % favourability […]

Church of England bans security cameras during services

In a sweeping new move to protect people’s privacy, the Church of England has ruled that CCTV cameras must be switched off during services. The precedent-setting case by the consistory court came in response to a petition by a Canterbury vicar to install two cameras at his historic 13th century church to ward off vandals. […]

Stop Exploiting Nuns for Cheap Church Labour, Vatican Magazine Urges

A Vatican magazine denounced widespread exploitation of nuns for cheap or free labour in the Roman Catholic Church on March 1, saying the male hierarchy should stop treating them like lowly servants. The article in the monthly “Women, Church, World”, remarkable for an official Vatican publication, described the drudgery of nuns who do work such […]

The Egyptian government “legalizes” 53 churches built before the law on Christian places of worship

The Egyptian government has provided full legal certificates to 53 churches with annexed service buildings already built before the new law on the construction of Christian buildings of worship passed by the Egyptian Parliament on August 30th 2016. A meeting of the government Commission set up specifically to conduct a census and examine the legalization […]

Will Pan-Amazonian Synod Result in End to Clerical Celibacy?

The Vatican announced on March 8 that Pope Francis has appointed members of a pre-synodal council who will collaborate with the secretariat of the Synod of Bishops in preparation for the Pan-Amazonian synod next year. Also announced was the theme of the October 2019 synod: Amazonia: new pathways for the Church and for an integral […]

African cardinal: Empty churches, not ‘remarried’ divorcees is western church’s

An African cardinal said he is “astonished” to see the church in the west fixated on “remarried” divorcees and on welcoming homosexuals and not on the bigger problem of empty churches. In a March 2 interview with the Austrian public service broadcaster ORF (Österreichischer Rundfunk), the Nigerian Cardinal John Onaiyekan — who is archbishop of […]

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Pan-Amazon Synod: Church looking at role of women

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