Pakistan’s top court has handed over the management of the oldest missionary education institution in Khyber Pakhtun-khwa (KPK) province to the local government. Three judges of the Supreme Court of Pakistan on June 3 rejected a petition filed by Church of Pakistan...
Sacred Heart Archbishop Petrus Canisius Mandagi of Merauke has called on the Indonesian Bishops’ Conference (KWI) to invite Pope Francis to visit his archdiocese in Papua to help create peace in the country’s restive easternmost region. He expressed his wish to have...
Pope Francis earlier this month asked an Italian bishop and expert in canon law to conduct visitation of the curial Congregation for Clergy, much like the one that recently concluded of the Vatican’s liturgy department. In a letter to diocesan priests widely reported...
An Italian nun who was stabbed 19 times more than two decades ago by three teenage girls apparently fascinated by Satan was honoured on June 6 with beatification as a martyr of the Catholic Church. Hours before the beatification ceremony in northern Italy, Pope...
Although agreeing with him that the clerical abuse crisis is a “catastrophe,” Pope Francis rejected the resignation presented to him by German Cardinal Reinhard Marx as archbishop of the archdiocese of Munich. “You tell me that you are going through a moment of...
