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In wake of latest attacks, Pakistan Christians denounce ‘second-class status’

After angry mobs of Muslims attacked a series of Christian homes and churches in Pakistan on August 16, the country’s Catholic bishops have called for justice and urged greater respect for minorities, saying a full investigation is necessary. In a statement following the incident, Archbishop Benny Travas of Karachi voiced “shock and disbelief,” saying the […]

Cardinal Burke drops bombshell on Synod of ‘ideology’ and ‘schism’

Cardinal Gerhard Müller has called it a “hostile takeover” of the Catholic Church. The late Cardinal George Pell termed it a “toxic nightmare.” Now, Cardinal Raymond Burke has written a foreword to a new book denouncing the Synod on Synodality as a “Pandora’s Box” that threatens to unleash grave harm on the Mystical Body of […]

Vatican envoy urges South Sudan to resist the ‘plague of vengeance’

Reflecting both the symbolic and the strategic importance of the world’s youngest independent nation, Pope Francis’s top dip-lomat recently urged South Sudan not to succumb to the “plague of vengeance” on his third trip to the African state. Italian Cardinal Pietro Parolin said on August 17 in the largely Christian nation, which has been marred […]

New Colonialism’ and local elites complicit in African conflicts, expert says

A leading Catholic expert on African affairs has said that competition over mineral wealth as part of what’s often referred to as a “New Colonialism” is at the heart of most of the continent’s conflicts, and that African leaders themselves are often complicit in creating and prolonging the violence. Referring specifically to a conflict between […]

Don’t be rigid, but be ‘docile to change’ as Jesus was, Pope tells pilgrims

Reflecting on Christ’s encounter with the Canaanite woman who pleaded for the healing of her daughter (Matthew 15:21-28), Pope Francis said during his August 20 Angelus address that “Jesus changed his attitude. What made him change it was the strength of the woman’s faith.” Jesus “was directing his preaching to the chosen people,” the Pope […]