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Calls for Pakistani MP to resign after anti-Bible remark

Members of the Christian Awakening Movement Pakistan demanding the resignation of Member of Parliament Maulana Abdul Akbar Chitrali for insulting the Bible during a speech at the national assembly, at the Islamabad Press Club on April 1st. Christian groups in Pakistan are demanding the resignation of a Muslim parliamentarian after he allegedly insulted the Bible […]

Many flee homes after 8 Christians killed in Bangladesh

Some 200 people were forced to flee their homes in Bangladesh after eight tribal Christians were killed on Maundy Thursday in a gun battle between two insurgent groups in a remote village in the restive Chittagong Hill Tracts. They fled their homes fearing further violence in Khamtangpara, a village in Bandarban district where the attack […]

Vote for de Lubac beatification raises Jesuit influence in modern-day Church

In the first week of April the French bishops voted in favour of opening a beatification cause for the late Cardinal Henri de Lubac, a celebrated theologian whose writings influenced not only the Second Vatican Council, but every pope since. De Lubac was one of several Jesuits who were key protagonists in the 1962-65 Second […]

I have forgiven them’-Women kidnapped by Boko Haram met with Pope Francis

Janada Marcus, 22, spent more than a year in Boko Haram captivity. Mariya Joseph, now a teen-ager, was kidnapped by Boko Haram when she was 8 years old. She escaped last August, after more than eight years in captivity. Marcus told The Pillar that meeting the pope – in a trip organized by Aid to […]

Zollner’s resignation and the credibility of papal reform

Zollner, 56, has been one of the best-known faces of Vatican-led reform efforts on child protection for years – he is widely regarded among Church leaders as an honest broker, a candid voice with a singular commitment to initiating and implementing reform efforts. The priest’s resignation from the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors […]

Milan archbishop overhauls seminary formation as numbers drop

A seven-page document out-lining the changes noted that in the five years from 2017 to 2022, the annual number of new entrants to priestly formation in the archdiocese fell from 24 to 6. Delpini, who signed the document March 25, announced the “reconfiguration” of seminary training at a Chrism Mass in Milan Cathedral April 6. […]

Trads Target Francis With Latin Mass Billboard Blitz

On March 29, dozens of posters urging the pontiff to cease his hostilities against the TLM were plastered on billboards in Roman neighbourhoods surrounding Vatican City. The posters featuring images and quotes from Pope Benedict XVI, Pope John Paul II and Pope Pius V will be displayed in Rome for 15 days in an act […]

Irish Catholicism & Mass attendance reach new low

Irish analytics and data company Amárach recently conducted a survey that found only about 14% of Irish Catholics regularly atte-nd Sunday Mass. Before Ireland’s bishops went along with the government’s draconian COVID lockdowns and church closures, only 24% of Ireland’s population attended weekly Mass. And only 59% of that 24% has return-ed, yielding an abysmal […]