The laity may start to have a greater say in the appointment of bishops, a member of the Council of Cardinals has said. Cardinal Oswald Gracies, Archbishop of Bombay and one of the Pope’s close advisers, told the National Catholic Reporter in an interview that the...
The ancient Syrian Orthodox Monastery of Mor Gabriel has been subjected to constant and unfair legal attacks since 2008. It has now fallen under the control of the all-powerful Diyanet, which governs Islamic Turkey (99.8% of the population). The Mor Gabriel Monastery...
Card. George Pell, the prefect of the Vatican’s Secretariat for the Economy, has been ordered to appear in a Melbourne court on July 26 to face sexual abuse charges. The charges stem from allegations made by “multiple complainants,” according to a deputy police...
More than 3,300 people have been killed in the violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Kasai region since last October, the Catholic Church says. The figure, reported by Reuters, is from Church sources in the country. The deaths are the result of clashes...
Bishop Joseph Absi was elected on June 21 the new Patriarch of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church, the National News Agency reported. Absi was elected one month after Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Melkite Greek Patriarch of Antioch Gregory III Lahham, 82...
