Marking the 150th anniversary of St Joseph being declared patron of the universal church, Pope Francis proclaimed a yearlong celebration dedicated to the foster father of Jesus. In a Dec. 8 apostolic letter,” Patris Corde” (“With a father’s heart”), the Pope said...
Cardinal Pell, 79, was cleared of sex abuse charges in his native Australia in April. His book “Prison Journal,” published this month, recounts his 13 months in solitary confinement in tiny cells following one of the most divisive trials in the country’s history. In a...
A mob of Muslim villagers in Egypt attacked a church and assaulted Coptic Christians in retaliation for a Facebook post published by a young Coptic man, which Muslim locals considered insulting to the Prophet Muhammad. Egyptian authorities made a number of arrests in...
“The Zairean rite suggests a promising way also for the possible elaboration of an Amazonian rite,” writes Francis in his preface for a new book titled Pope Francis and the Roman Missal of the Dioceses of Zaire: A Promising Rite for Other Cultures. The Zairean Mass,...
Nearly 1500 academics in Poland have written an appeal against “slandering and rejecting St John Paul II” after the publication of the McCarrick report by the Vatican on November 10. The report documented the rise of dis-graced former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who...
