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Pope Francis calls on religious not to be discouraged by ‘lack of vocations or by aging’‍

Pope Francis on November 7 asked religious not to succumb to pessimism over a lack of vocations and to pray with him to “deliver us from the presumption of self-sufficiency and the spirit of worldly criticism.” Addressing representatives of the Claretianum Institute of the Theology of the Consecrated Life on the occasion of its 50th […]

Record number of Swiss Catholics left the Church in 2021

A record number of Swiss Catholics formally left the Church in 2021, according to new stati-stics. The Swiss Institute of Pastoral Sociology (SPI) in St. Gallen said that 34,182 people left the Church last year, around 2,500 more than in the previous record-setting year of 2019. Around 2.96 million people remained members of the Church […]

Grand Imam Lectures Francis on ‘True’ Islam

The grand imam of Al-Azhar offered a robust defence of “true” Islam before Pope Francis at the Bahrain Forum for Dialogue on the first day of the pontiff’s apostolic journey to Bahrain. “What is said and promoted from time to time about the institution of war in Islam against the infidels is not true,” Sheikh Ahmed […]

German bishop calls current Catholic teaching on sexuality ‘too simple’

Bishop Helmut Dieser of Aachen wants the Catholic Church to take a new perspective on sexuality. “Same-sex feelings and love are not an aberration, but a variant of human sexuality,” he said in an interview with Deutsche Welle Nov. 8. His remarks were reported by the German Catholic news agency, KNA. Homosexuals have a right […]

SUNDAY LITURGY TURNS GOLDEN!

Sunday Liturgy, the premier liturgical publication, turns golden this month. Published by the Indian Province of the Society of St Paul, the periodical was launched in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, the mother house of the Congregation in India in November, 1972, coinciding with the beginning of the coming liturgical year. The goal of the till-now four- […]

Indian priest stabbed in Ireland

A Catholic priest from India is reco-vering in a hospital in Ireland after an intruder broke into his residence and stabbed him on October 30. Father Bobit Augusthy was attacked at around 9:30 am at Waterford in the Republic of Ireland. The property is located in the grounds of Waterford Regional Ho-spital where Father Augusthy […]