The Catholic Church must bear in mind its sins in the Middle East, Pope Francis has said. Although the sin of war committed by nations has caused great suffering to Christians in the Middle East, the Pope said, “there is also our sin in the Middle East: the sin of...
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...
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...
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...
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...
