Australia’s Catholic bishops and religious orders, responding to recommendations from the Royal Commission Into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, accepted 98 percentage of its suggestions, but said they could not accept recommendations that would violate...
The clashes between right- wing demonstrators and antifascist protesters in the eastern German city of Chemnitz in Saxony, where a German with Cuban roots was stabbed to death by an Iraqi and a Syrian on 27 August, have been sharply condemned by church leaders in...
In an effort to move beyond promises and pledges, leaders from around the world have joined the faith community and others in San Francisco to put on display actions under way to address the global threat of climate change, and to mobilize even more. The three-day...
Every fifth diocesan priest
was murdered in Poland occupied by the Germans and Russians.
Four Polish bishops were killed
in the concentration camps, and
nearly half of the Roman Catholic dioceses were deprived of
diocesan bishops. It was also a
war with religion –...
A major research paper, co- authored by the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, says that Britain’s economy “is not working for millions of people and needs fundamental reform.” The report, Prosperity and Justice, argues that “a fair economy is a strong...
