Login      Register  
Subscription

Catholic schools doing better at teaching self-control to students

The study examined two surveys of the behaviour of thousands of elementary school students enrolled in public, Catholic, and non-Catholic pri-vate schools. According to the teachers in the surveys, students at Catholic schools engaged in fewer “externalizing behavi-ours,” meaning they did not fight, get angry, act impulsively, or disturb on-going activities as frequently as students […]

Pope stalls German plans on Communion for Protestants

Pope Francis has stalled the German bishops’ plan to loosen restrictions on giving communion to Protestants telling them their document on the topic is “not ready” for publication. A two-thirds majority of the German hierarchy had voted in favour of a “pastoral hand-out” that would have made it easier for non-Catholic Christians married to Catholics […]

Parents abandon infant at church, father held

A man was arrested June 2 for abandoning his newborn baby in a church in Kerala. Police said they traced the parents of the two-day old baby based on CCTV footage that went viral on social media platforms. The baby’s father will be charged under various sections of IPC and Juvenile Justice Act, police said. […]

Pope accepts resignation of three Chilean bishops

Pope Francis on June 11, accepted the resignation of three Chilean bishops including the controversial Juan Barros following a child sex abuse scandal in Chile which has come to haunt his papacy. The entire Chilean delegation of bishops tendered its resignation to the Pope after a series of meetings at the Vatican. The mass resignation of an […]

Dead nun’s congregation should get compensation: Court

The Madras High Court has allowed a Women’s Religious Congregation to claim compensation for a nun, who died in a road accident 16 years ago. The Madurai bench of the court asked Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation to pay the compensation, dismissing their argument that the congregation was not the legal heir of the nun. […]

Sports on Sundays OK, except when used to skip Mass, says Vatican

A new Vatican document cautions against the dangers of highly competitive children’s sports, political and economic pressures on athletes to win “at all costs” and the unsportsman like or violent behaviour of fans. The document on sports also calls on every group or institution sponsoring sports programs to have expert-guided child protection policies in place […]

Priests, parishioners buried in Benue, Catholics protest nationwide

The two Catholic priests and 17 parishioners slain by suspected herdsmen on April 24 in Benue State were buried on May 22 amid nationwide peaceful protest by the Catholic faithful. The two priests, Rev Fathers Joseph Gor and Felix Tyolaha, and 17 members of the congregation while killed during an early morning mass at St […]