A Syro-Malabar archbishop, who heads a diocese in northern India, wants his Oriental Church to become global by breaking free the barriers of Kerala, its base in southern India. “What we need is globalization and not colonization of the Church,” Archbishop Kuriakose...
Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Bishop Aloysius Paul D’Souza of Mangalore and has appointed Fr Peter Paul Saldanha (54) the new Bishop of Mangalore. The bisop-elect, a priest of Mangalore, is now Professor at the Pontifical Urbanian University in Rome....
Pope Francis on June 29 transferred Bishop Sebastian Kallupura of Buxar to Patna archdiocese as the coadjutor. Both the dioceses are in Bihar, eastern India. On the same day, the pontiff accepted the resignation of Bishop Jude Gerald Paulraj A of Palayamkottai, Tamil...
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...
Pope Francis has criticized the Trump administration’s policy of separating migrant families at the Mexican border, saying populism is not the answer to the world’s immigration problems. Speaking to Reuters, the Pope said he supported recent statements by U.S....
