After publication of his letter to Pope Francis questioning the pontiff’s teachings, Father Thomas Weinandy has resigned from his position as consultant to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Doctrine. The Capuchin Fran-ciscan priest is former...
An Oct. 26 ceremony on Capitol Hill honoured French priest Father Patrick Desbois for his work for nearly two decades in researching and telling the story of genocides past and present. But the event also challenged the audience to be vigilant and to take more...
With seven out of 16 awards, India bagged the highest number of awards among all the participant nations in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Asia Pacific Award for Cultural Heritage Conservation for 2017. While the award...
Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith of Colombo has called on the Sri Lankan government to ban tutorial classes on Sundays. “I wrote to the president to ban tuition classes from 6.00 a.m. to 2.00 p.m. on Sundays,” said Cardinal Ranjith addressing a Catholic Teachers Day program...
Pope Francis has personally decided that markets inside the Vatican will no longer sell cigarettes as of January 1, 2018. The Vatican spokesman, Greg Burke, explained that “the Holy See cannot contribute to an activity that clearly damages the health of people.”...
