Sr Meena Barwa, a child migrant and member of the Handmaids of Mary, was the victim of rape 10 years ago during anti-Christian violence in Kandhamal, a district in the India state of Odisha. Her court case is largely unresolved. At the recent conference on migrant...
Cardinal Joseph Zen Zekiun believes the provisional Vatican- China agreement on appointing bishops will allow the Chinese government to eliminate the underground church with the help of the Vatican. Quoting from a Hungarian theologian, the Hong Kong emeritus bishop...
The Vatican has signed an agreement with China, giving the Beijing government a role in the appointment of new bishops. Although the terms of the accord were not made public, informed sources at the Vatican have confirmed that under the agreement, the Beijing...
Pope Francis admitted that sex abuse scandals surrounding the Catholic Church have driven younger people away. “We know – and you have told us – that many young people do not turn to us for anything because they don’t feel we have anything meaningful to say to them,”...
The head of the German bishops conference formally apologized for sexual abuse in the church, saying it “has been denied, turned away from and covered up for far too long.” “Sexual abuse is a crime,” Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich and Freising told a news conference...
