An internationally renowned group of reform-minded priests in Austria has criticized the world’s bishops for not capitalizing on Pope Francis’ openness to make significant changes in Church ministry and pastoral practice. The Austrian Priests’ Initiative (API) is...
The Nagaland unit of BJP has resolved in its executive meeting to “safeguard the Christian faith” and expressed shock over some doubting “the secular credentials” of the party. “Many members” of the state-level executive meeting in Kohima have “expressed shock and...
Card. George Pell, the prefect of the Vatican’s Secretariat for the Economy, has rebuked the Administration of the Patri-mony of the Apostolic See (ASPA), saying that APSA overstepped its authority by instructing other Vatican offices to submit financial information...
In a message to the Catholic hierarchy of Latin America, Pope Francis has underlined the importance of listening to the laity, and being willing to join them in their struggle to live the Gospel in a troubled world. The full text of the Pope’s message to the Latin...
Leonardo Boff, the popular liberation theologian from Brazil and former Franciscan priest, has expressed a desire to “embrace” and effect a “kind of reconciliation” with the man who once silenced him – Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the now-retired Benedict XVI. Boff told...
