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French president and pope meet for first time:”No fight against religion”‍

In a closely monitored meeting on June 26, Pope Francis met for the first time with French President Emmanuel Macron. In what is believed to be one of Francis’s longest private meetings with a head of state to date, lasting nearly one hour, the meeting comes at a moment in which Macron has emerged

The Bishops and the Nuncio rush to Masaya to stop a new massacre

The church bells of the city of Masaya in Nicaraguarang without stopping, not to warn of the arrival of death squads, form-ed by police and paramilitaries, but this time with a reason for hope: the arrival of some members of the Episcopal Conference and of the Apostolic Nuncio who on June 25, after learning that […]

Individual bishops should decide about Communion in mixed marriages, Pope says

The question of allowing Protestants married to Catholics to receive Communion at Mass in special cases has to be decided by each individual bishop and cannot be decided by a bishops’ conference, Pope Francis told reporters after a one-day ecumenical journey to Geneva. During an inflight news conference on June 21, the Pope was asked […]

Towards the Synod: Young people are less religious than older adults

A study by the Pew Research Centre shows that in almost all countries there are differences between young people and older people regarding the importance given to religion; belonging to a group and daily prayer. The influence of economic development, of education, of danger, of age. The cases of Muslim countries, South Korea and Japan. […]

The Amazing Story of 12 Anglican Nuns Who All Became Catholic

On Jan. 2, 2013, 12 fully habited nuns left their convent forever. They walked or were helped to a waiting coach. On board there were some suit-cases and bedding. They left with all they possessed. So opened the Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum Coetibus, given in Rome, at St Peter’s, on Nov. 4, 2009, the Memorial of […]

Cardinal Schönborn: women priests ‘too profound a change’ for the Church

Card. Christoph Schönborn has clarified his views on female ordination, saying that women priests would be “too profound a change.” However, he signalled his support for the introduction of deaconesses. In an interview with Austrian news site OE24, the Archbishop of Vienna said that while there were female deacons in the early Church, he did […]