“The Church is a woman” and if she lacks this identity she becomes “a charity association or a football team;” when “it is a male Church,” it becomes “a Church of old bachelors,” “incapable of love, incapable of fecundity,” said Pope Francis at Mass this morning at...
The President of Ger-many has called for the Catholic Church to allow Protestants to receive Communion. Speaking at Katholikentag, a major conference for German-speaking Catholics in Münster, Frank-Walter Steinmeier said: “Let us seek ways of expressing the common...
Pope Paul VI wraps his cape around a small boy who has just presented him a bouquet of flowers on behalf of the parish children Photograph: S&G Barratts/EMPICS/PA Archive 13 years before his death, Blessed Paul VI wrote that he should be allowed to resign if he...
Every Chilean bishop has offered his resignation to Pope Francis after a series of closed-door meetings with all 34 bishops at the Vatican, to discuss the abuse crisis in the country. The dramatic announcement followed the leaking of a 10-page letter to television...
“They are hunting us,” murmurs a secondary school teacher, turning his back to the camera and asking not to be named. “The Cameroon government security forces were entering villages and killing unarmed people. Bodies have been found in forests, they used every method...
