Although Islamic State has been defeated in northern Iraq, the “Islamist mindset” that persists in the region has made Christian refugees from the region “afraid to return,” according to one of Iraq’s most senior Catholic Bishops. Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Najeeb...
In a recent blog post Fr Nicanor Austriaco, O.P., S.T.D, Ph.D., said he sees reason to hope that the drug hydroxy-chloroquine could be used to treat the corona virus, or COVID-19. Austriaco is a professor of biology and theology at Providence College in Providence,...
Fabio Stevenazzi, a diocesan priest in Italy, was a doctor before entering the seminary. Now he is donning his white coat once more to fight the coronavirus pandemic. Italy is facing a national crisis caused by a lack of hospital beds and health personnel. Now that...
While Catholics in the U.S. continue to grapple with fallout stemming from the clergy abuse scandals, new polling suggests that Catholics have a higher opinion of the Church than they did this time last year. According to data from the Saint Leo University Polling...
A Peruvian bishop has rescinded permission for priests of his diocese to hear confessions by telephone, just five days after authorizing them to do so. Bishop Reinhold Nann of the Diocese of Caravell, Peru said March 15 that priests of his diocese could hear...
