Textbooks for high school students in Saudi Arabia promote hatred against Jews, Christians, women, homosexual men and other Muslim sects despite repeated promises to return the country to a more moderate form of Islam, according to a report released....
The bishop must be an ‘administrator of God,’ not of goods, of power, “humble, meek, servant, not prince.” Only in this way can we put order in the Church which “ has never been born perfectly in order,” Pope Francis said at Mass this morning at Casa Santa Marta,...
As the rich get richer, the increasing misery and cries of the poor are ignored every day, Pope Francis said. Christians cannot stand with arms “folded in indifference” or thrown up in the air in helpless resignation, he said in his homily on Nov. 18, the World Day of...
Pope Francis is convinced that the scourge of abuse is a problem that does not pertain just to a single country. Pope Francis’ crunch summit on child protection in February is poised to open a new chapter in the Church’s response to the clerical sexual abuse scandal,...
“The evening of August 21, 2014 I was relaxing with my two children–Zachariah (5) and Jonathan (18 months), in front of our house in Baga, Borno State. I was pregnant at the time. We suddenly heard gunshots and explosions. “We all knew immediately that it was Boko...
