Over the past week, two leading European cardinals, both of whom enjoy broad favour with Pope Francis, have made public statements calling for a change in the Catholic Church’s current position on the issues of homosexuality and priestly celibacy. In an interview...
Women religious in Ukraine are facing Russia’s full-scale invasion of that nation with deter-mined faith and a commitment to service. Two sisters of the Order of Saint Basil the Great spoke with CatholicPhilly.com directly from Ukraine February 23 and 24 via telephone...
European bishops, both Catholic and Russian Orthodox, are pleading for the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, to ask Vladimir Putin to stop the war against Ukraine. According to the Metropolitan of the Archdiocese of Orthodox Churches of Russian...
Just one in five Christian women in the United Kingdom claim females should not be in authority over men in Church leadership. That’s one finding from a new survey conducted by Premier with more than 800 women from across the country. It also found, four out of five...
A photo of a statue of Jesus being removed from a Ukrainian cathedral and put into storage has prompted hundreds of retweets as the world grasps the full implications of the Russian shelling in Ukraine. The tweet about the statue, from the Armenian Cathedral of Lviv,...
