A suspected suicide bomb attack targeted Catholics leaving a cathedral after Palm Sunday Mass on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The explosion occurred March 28 out-side Sacred Heart of Jesus Cathedral in Makassar, capital of South Sulawesi pro-vince, as...
The number of Catholics and permanent deacons in the world has shown steady growth, while the number of religious men and women continued to decrease, according to Vatican statistics. At the end of 2019, the worldwide Catholic population exceeded 1.34 billion, which...
The Vatican decreed March 15 that the Catholic Church won’t bless same-sex unions since God cannot bless sin. The Vatican’s orthodoxy office, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, issued a formal response March 15 to a question about whether Catholic clergy...
In January, two Vatican cardinals wanted to summon the president of the German bishops’ conference to Rome and correct him about a media interview in which he expressed his dissent from Church teaching in a number of areas. Such a meeting, which some believe should...
Women of faith celebrated International Women’s day with discussions on women’s future in the Catholic Church and by exploring if women have been written out of scripture. “We are talking about the survival of the Church,” said Joanna Moorhead, The Tablet’s Arts...
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