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Archbishop Coleridge: ‘Copernican revolution’ needed to tackle abuse

The Catholic Church needs a true conversion that places survivors, and not the institution, as the focus of its concern as it enacts measures to combat the sexual abuse of minors and vulnerable people, said Australian Archbishop Mark Coleridge of Brisbane. Like Nicolaus Copernicus’ discovery that the earth revolves around the sun, the church is […]

DUTCH CATHOLICS ATTEMPT TO STOP CATHEDRAL SALE

Dutch Catholics are protesting plans to close Utrecht’s historic St Catherine’s Cathedral, which is to be put up for sale by the archdiocese, citing spiralling costs and falling attendance. “Closing this cathedral will remove Catholicism’s visibility in the inner city and prevent any community growth in future – Catholic Utrecht isn’t ready to be confined to […]

NICARAGUAN POET-PRIEST CARDENAL LEAVES HOSPITAL, THANKS POPE

Renowned Nicaraguan poet and priest Ernesto Cardenal was released from a hospital on February 20 two weeks after he entered for treatment for an infection that provoked other ailments. Luz Marina Acosta, assistant to the 94-year-old Cardenal, told The Associated Press that he is at home and off antibiotics and oxygen. “Although he is always […]

CHRISTIAN BEHEADED IN INDIA’S ODISHA STATE

A Christian man has been found virtually beheaded in an interior village of India’s Odisha State in what family members and many others believe was an anti-Christian attack. They dismiss a police claim that he was killed by politically motivated Maoist rebels. The body of 40-year-old Anant Ram Gand, father of four girls and a […]

GUJARAT’S CHRISTIANS RALLY FOR PEACE

Over February 17-18, thousands of Christians participated in peace rallies in Ahmedabad, organised by various churches in support of the martyrs of the Pulwama terror attack. This is probably the first time that the Christian community in Gujarat, which usually keeps a low profile and stays away from political matters, organised a rally on an […]

PROTECTION OF MINORS: MEETING OF ABUSE VICTIMS IN VATICAN

The ad interim Director of the Vatican Press Office, Alessandro Gisotti, issues a statement confirming a meeting that took place in the Vatican  between the organizing committee of the “Protection of Minors in the Church” Meeting and several victims of abuse.”As was announced during the course of the Press Conference on 18 February in the […]

GERMAN POLITICIANS ALARMED BY RISING ANTI-SEMITISM IN FRANCE

Josef Schuster, president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, said in an interview with the German Welt am Sonntag newspaper he’s concerned about a sharp rise in anti-Semitic attacks in France.” The anti-Semitic incidents in France are disturbing and frightening for the Jewish community in Germany also,” Schuster said. France is not the […]