The head of the Vatican Secretariat for the Economy said he hopes efforts at financial transparency and reform will foster Catholics’ trust ahead of the annual Peter’s Pence collection. In an interview with Vatican News June 25, Jesuit Father Juan Antonio Guerrero...
The Irish Catholic bishops have chosen a laywoman to head preparations for a national synod, due to be held in the next five years. Nicola Brady has worked in a number of peace-building roles, both nationally and internationally, and currently works on building...
Shortly before the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops announced the bishops had approved moving forward in drafting a teaching document on the Eucharist, a group of Catholic Democratic members of the House of Representatives asked the bishops not to deny holy...
The president of the German bishops’ conference said he personally assured Pope Francis that the Catholic Church in Germany does not want “to go its own way.” Bishop Georg Bätzing of Limburg, president of the conference, met Pope Francis privately at the Vatican June...
In short exchange with a journalist during the G7 summit in Cornwall, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson refused to comment on whether or not he is now a practicing Catholic. ITV political editor Robert Peston noted that Johnson got married in Westminster Cathedral...
