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Surge of Anglican priests who became Catholic wasn’t only due to CofE vote on women priests

A new study has revealed the scale of Anglican clergy who entered into full communion with the Catholic Church over the past three decades, with hundreds of vicars and even entire groups of ministers making the journey to Rome. The research, published on 20 November by St Mary’s University, Twickenham, shows that roughly a third of […]

Ukraine’s top Catholic bishop warns corruption is “sabotage” as US continues its aid debate

Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk has issued one of his starkest warnings of the war, condemning what he called a destructive network of corruption uncovered within Ukraine’s energy sector. In his weekly video message, delivered in the 196th week of the Russian invasion, the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church said the revelations had caused […]

COP30 ends without agreement for phasing out fossil fuels

The halls of COP30 are empty, and as the final gavel fell, there was a sense that something essential had slipped away. What began with remarkable promise under Brazil’s presidency concluded instead with “disappointment, and, for many, the unsettling feeling of having watched the multilateral climate process take a step backwards”. “It’s been my fifteenth […]

Vatican publishes new Regulations of the Roman Curia

The new General Regulation and Personnel Regulation of the Roman Curia, promulgated by Pope Leo XIV and set to take effect on 1 January 2026, signal a significant recalibration of how the Church intends to govern itself from within. Wrapped in the language of pastoral service and missionary identity, the two documents amount to a […]

Regional Training of Trainers for Lay Leadership held in Jammu

The Commission for Laity organised a two-day Regional Training of Trainers (ToT) for lay leaders of the Northern Region at Maithri Bhavan, the Diocesan Pastoral Centre (DPC), Jammu, under the Diocese of Jammu–Srinagar. The training, held from 7 to 8 November, revolved around the theme “Leadership in a Synodal Church.” A total of 40 lay […]

Bishop appeals for prayers for jailed priest

Bishop Niranjan Sualsingh of Sambalpur in Odisha has urged his faithful to join in prayer for a diocesan priest arrested following a motorcycle accident. The Bishop’s November 11 circular asked Catholics and people of goodwill “to keep Father Paul Adapoor in their prayers, that he may be strengthened by faith and delivered from his present […]

Pope Leo XIV proposes 19th-century Indian religious as a model of women’s emancipation

Pope Leo XIV spoke of the beatification this week of Mother Eliswa Vakayil, a 19th-century Indian religious and founder of the Third Order of the Teresian Discalced Carmelites, highlighting her “courageous commitment to the emancipation of the poorest girls.” “The witness of Mother Eliswa Vakayil,” the pope affirmed during his greetings in Italian at the end of […]

Church leaders express sorrow over deaths in Delhi car blast

Church leaders in India have expressed deep sorrow over the reported loss of 13 lives in a powerful explosion near Delhi’s historic Red Fort on the evening of Nov. 10. The explosion took place around 6:52 p.m. inside a car near a traffic signal in a crowded area, injuring around 24 people and damaging other […]