A Benedictine abbess who granted refuge to female asylum-seekers faces trial for refusing to pay a fine, reported the German Catholic news agency KNA. It could become a land-mark case by determining whe-ther granting church asylum amounts to the punishable offen-se of...
The Vatican’s Congregation for Clergy has published instructions on reforming parishes and restructuring dioceses to better serve their “singular mission of evangeli-zation.” The 24-page document is called “The pastoral conversion of the parish community in the...
