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Pope wants bishops conferences to take responsibility for sexual abuse issue

Pope wants bishops to take responsibility for abuse scandal — Pope Francis called the bishops of Chile to the Vatican to “examine the causes and consequences” of the clerical sexual abuse scandal and acknowledge personal responsibility and “the mechanisms that in some cases led to a cover up and serious omissions regarding the victims,” the […]

Pope praises girl who zipped by security to give him letter

Pope Francis has praised the courage of a young girl who broke through police barricades in Abu Dhabi to hand-deliver a letter to him. Francis was being driven around the city’s sports stadium in his Pope mobile before Mass when the child dashed from the crowd so quickly that police couldn’t catch her. “This child […]

Geneva to ban religious symbols on public employees

Geneva residents on February 10 voted for a controversial new “secularism law,” which will among other things ban elected officials and public employees from wearing visible religious symbols. More than 55% voters in the Swiss canton backed the law, final results showed, despite warnings that it could lead to discrimination, particularly against Muslim women. Some […]

Chaldean patriarch: reforming rites and traditions to meet to the challenges of modernity

The Chaldean Patriarch, Card Louis Raphael Sako, issued a pastoral letter on the “originality and authenticity” of the “renewal” of the Chaldean Church, which was sent to AsiaNews for wider circulation. In it, the prelate notes that the Church must “give answers” to the questions and challenges of modernity, the passage of time and prepare for those […]

Orban Encourages Mothers in Hungary to Have 4 or More Babies

Faced with a plummeting population, rising labour shortages and widespread emigration, Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary has long taken an unconventional approach to increasing the size and productivity of Hungary’s work force. He offered university scholarships only to those who promised to stay in Hungary. He gave citizenship to ethnic Hungarians living beyond the […]

Church service stops after 96 days as asylum family pardoned

A church service that has been performed continuously for 96 days has come to an end after the Dutch government agreed to pardon a family the pastors were shielding from deportation as part of a wider amnesty. Sasun Tamrazyan, his wife Anousche and their children Hayarpi, 21, Warduhi, 19, and Seyran, 15, have been holed […]

Cardinals at war over ‘fraud of Antichrist’

The Pope’s former doctrinal chief has published a “Manifesto of Faith” in which he warns of the “fraud of Antichrist” being perpetrated by those who fail to teach the faith correctly. Cardinal Gerhard Müller, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith from 2012 to 2017, writes that there is “growing confusion about the doctrine […]

Protect members from sexual harassment: Women major superiors urged

An advocacy group for Catholic religious has urged major superiors of women’s congregation to ensure that their members are protected against sexual harassment. The Forum of Religious for Justice and Peace, in a press release on February 3, also asked the superiors to report to “appropriate civil and ecclesial authorities” any crime against their members. […]