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Catholic priest forced to leave Texas amid visa backlog and residency denial

A Mexican-born Catholic priest who has served in the Diocese of Laredo, Texas, for nine years must leave the United States because his application for residency was denied and his religious worker visa is expiring. Father Alan Sanchez, the pastor of St. Joseph Church in La Pryor and St. Patrick Mission in Batesville, will return […]

Pope Leo XIV to inaugurate Laudato Si’ Village in Castel Gandolfo

On Friday, September 5, at 4 PM Rome time, Pope Leo XIV will inaugurate the Borgo Laudato Si’, at the historic papal residence in Castel Gandolfo, newly opened to the public and dedicated to embodying the vision of Laudato si’, Pope Francis’ encyclical on care for creation—now celebrating its tenth anniversary. First entrusted to the Laudato Si’ Centre […]

Legal dispute over Rio de Janeiro’s Christ the Redeemer statue: this is the solution proposed by the Senate

From the slopes of Corcovado, Christ the Redeemer gazes over Rio de Janeiro with open arms, a figure that has long symbolized both faith and nation. For millions, it is not simply a tourist attraction but a sanctuary in the sky — a place of prayer, pilgrimage, and sacramental life where weddings, baptisms, and daily […]

Emotion in Assisi: Carlo Acutis sculpture unveiled in the garden near his tomb

With less than a month to go before the canonization of Blessed Carlo Acutis, the sculpture St. Carlo at the Cross was unveiled in Assisi. The bronze artwork, created by renowned Canadian artist Timothy Paul Schmalz, shows him kneeling at the foot of the Cross. It is located in the garden of the Church of […]

Clerical abuse damaged credibility and trust, says Archbishop

At the 50th National Day of Intercession for Priests at Ireland’s International Eucharistic and Marian Shine in Knock, Co Mayo, Archbishop of Armagh Eamon Martin said abuse had damaged priestly fraternity, credibility and the “precious trust” between priests and their people. There are many times, he said, when priests feel their brokenness, woundedness and their […]

Two seminarians kidnapped in Nigeria

Two seminarians kidnapped in Nigeria’s southern Edo State appeared in a video filmed by their captors, pleading with their parents, the Church and the general public to help secure their release. They were seized in an attack on the Diocese of Auchi’s Immaculate Conception Minor Seminary in Ivianokpodi, Agenebode, Etsako East Local Government Area on […]

Colombia’s bishops condemn terrorist attacks that ‘rocked the country’

Colombia’s bishops expressed their outrage after at least 18 people died and more than 40 were injured after two attacks in Colombia attributed to different dissident factions of the former FARC guerrilla group. Bishops decried as “brutal” the “wave of violence that rocked the country,” with the Archdiocese of Cali, Colombia’s most populous city where the attacks […]

Bolivian bishops after elections: ‘A new chapter in the country’s political history opens’

The Bolivian Bishops’ Conference (CEB, by its Spanish acronym) expressed hope after Bolivia’s recent general election, which marked a change in the country’s political direction. Rodrigo Paz Pereira, the centrist Christian Democratic Party candidate for president who won the Aug. 17 election, will now face former president Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga in a runoff. The unexpected […]