The Claretian congregation has replaced its Bangalore provincial with a Vatican official as the delegate of the superior general. According to the website of the Claretian Missionaries (Congregation of the Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary or Cordis...
A Chinese underground bishop who was sentenced to 10 years of forced labour in the 1980s for bringing Catholics on pilgrimage to the Marian Shrine of Our Lady of Sheshan died at the age of 98. Joseph Zhu Baoyu, bishop emeritus of Nanyang, made headlines in February...
Modern society is formulating an “anti-Christian creed” and punishing those who resist it with “social excommunication,” Benedict XVI has said in a new biography, published in Germany on May 4. In a wide-ranging interview at the end of the 1,184-page book, written by...
This year’s Holy Week celebrations resulted in a major spike of new viewers tuning in to watch Vatican liturgies – an increase from 1.5 million online viewers last year to 5.5 million this year – and a trend matched by ordinary parishes throughout the...
In preparation for the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, the German bishops conducted an in-depth study of the behaviour of their predecessors under the Nazi regime. On 29 April, the German bishops’ conference presented the conclusions they had come...
