36 percent of Anglican congregations have no parishioners under 16-years-old, the Church of England has revealed. Describing the situation as “shocking” Canon Mark Russell, chief executive of the Church Army, told the Church’s General Synod that only 6% of Anglican...
Superiors of male and female religious institutes around the world have drawn up a Declaration in support of Pope Francis and the meeting on the protection of minors that will take place in the Vatican from 21 to 24 February, for presidents of episcopal conferences....
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...
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...
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...
