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58 French dioceses have no ordinations this year

Traditionalist priests now account for 20 per cent of ordinations in France. The number of new ordinations in France has fallen this year, from 133 in 2017 to 114. According to figures from La Croix, 82 of these new priests are diocesan, while the rest are members of various orders and societies of apostolic life. […]

‘Sterile hypocrisy’ behind mistreatment of migrants, pope says

Hearts that are closed to welcoming migrants and refugees are similar to those of the Pharisees, who often would preach sacrifice and following God’s law without exercising mercy to those in need, Pope Francis said. Jesus’ rebuke of the Pharisees’ “insidious murmuring” is “a finger pointed at the sterile hypocrisy of those who do not […]

French president and pope meet for first time:”No fight against religion”

In a closely monitored meeting on June 26, Pope Francis met for the first time with French President Emmanuel Macron. In what is believed to be one of Francis’s longest private meetings with a head of state to date, lasting nearly one hour, the meeting comes at a moment in which Macron has emerged a […]

Pope criticizes Trump administration policy on migrant family separation

Pope Francis has criticized the Trump administration’s policy of separating migrant families at the Mexican border, saying populism is not the answer to the world’s immigration problems. Speaking to Reuters, the Pope said he supported recent statements by U.S. Catholic bishops who called the separation of children from their parents “contrary to our Catholic values” […]

Pope Francis: clergy in the Middle East should not be living in luxury

The Catholic Church must bear in mind its sins in the Middle East, Pope Francis has said. Although the sin of war committed by nations has caused great suffering to Christians in the Middle East, the Pope said, “there is also our sin in the Middle East: the sin of incoherence between life and faith.” […]

The Bishops and the Nuncio rush to Masaya to stop a new massacre

The church bells of the city of Masaya in Nicaraguarang without stopping, not to warn of the arrival of death squads, form-ed by police and paramilitaries, but this time with a reason for hope: the arrival of some members of the Episcopal Conference and of the Apostolic Nuncio who on June 25, after learning that […]

Individual bishops should decide about Communion in mixed marriages, Pope says

The question of allowing Protestants married to Catholics to receive Communion at Mass in special cases has to be decided by each individual bishop and cannot be decided by a bishops’ conference, Pope Francis told reporters after a one-day ecumenical journey to Geneva. During an inflight news conference on June 21, the Pope was asked […]

Towards the Synod: Young people are less religious than older adults

A study by the Pew Research Centre shows that in almost all countries there are differences between young people and older people regarding the importance given to religion; belonging to a group and daily prayer. The influence of economic development, of education, of danger, of age. The cases of Muslim countries, South Korea and Japan. […]

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