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BAVARIA TO DISPLAY CROSSES IN ALL GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS‍

Bavaria’s regional government has ordered crosses to be placed at the entrances of all state administrative buildings. The state’s conservative administration said that the crosses should reflect Bavaria’s “cultural identity and Christian-Western influence.” The decree was passed on April

EVANGELIZING BY TRAIN IN GERMANY

In an effort to reach out to local people, a German Catholic priest from the Diocese of Limburg has adopted the habit of taking a weekly train journey during which he makes himself available to chat to other passengers. Father Olaf Linden-berg has experienced enormous success with his simple idea of setting out to meet people […]

ARE MORE BABIES BORN INSIDE OR OUTSIDE MARRIAGE?

Over 5.1 million babies were born in the European Union (EU) in 2016. In eight of the 28 Member States, the majority of babies were born outside marriage, while in eight other member States two-thirds of babies were born to married parents. With six in every ten babies born to unmarried parents, France had the […]

CDF, POPE REJECT INTERCOMMUNION HANDOUT OF GERMAN BISHOPS’ CONFERENCE, MARX MEETS POPE

As the Austrian Catholic news website Kath.net reports, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith – with explicit approval of Pope Francis – rejected the 22 February 2018 pastoral handout concerning the admittance, in individual cases, of Protestant spouses of Catholics to Holy Communion as it had been approved by the German Bishops’ Conference […]

FAITH CAN HELP CLEANSE SOCIETAL WATERS OF RACISM, SAYS CARDINAL WUERL

With faith, people can confront and help to overcome the evil of racism, Washington Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl said in an April 17 talk at The Catholic University of America. “The elimination of racism may seem too a great task for any one of us or even for the whole church,” he said. “Yet we place our confidence […]

FILIPINO POLL CANDIDATE RAPPED FOR ‘JESUS CHRIST’ NICKNAME

A man standing for election to a village council in the southern Philippines has been criticized by a church leader for using the nickname “Jesus Christ” on his certificate of candidacy. The Commission on Elections upheld the use of the name by 40- year-old Charlie Bucao Talledo. But Father Bobby Puracan, chancellor of Surigao Diocese […]