Experts and Catholic groups in South Korea have called for more psychotherapy centres and counsellors and urged the Church to promote counselling as part of pastoral care amid a rise in suicide rates. “[Pastoral] counselling should be added to sacramental pastoral...
The Catholic Church in South Korea is the most trusted religious group on the peninsula, according to a recent survey. Among those surveyed, 21.4 % of respondents revealed that they had more trust in Catholicism in comparison to other religions in the country. The...
The Second Vatican Council’s document Lumen Gentium (light of the nations) clearly taught that the Church consists of all the baptized, not just the clergy. The return to this conciliar concept surely is a powerful antidote to the recent discoveries of clerical...
These are the names of the four asteroids named after three astronomers from the Vatican Observatory, and Pope Gregory XIII. Pope Gregory, who was born Ugo Boncompagni, is the Pope to whom we owe the reform of the calendar (later known as the Gregorian Calendar) and...
There are currently 1,165 female employees working for the Pope, compared to only 846 in the year Francis took office in 2013. The percentage of women in the total workforce at the Vatican rose in the current pontificate from just under 19.2 to 23.4 per cent today....
