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Francis calls US Catholic criticism of his papacy an ‘honour’

Pope Francis has spoken in unusually frank terms about the theological divide in the U.S. Catholic Church, calling it an “honour” that some conservative Catholic groups in the country continue to criticize his papacy. In a brief exchange with a journalist aboard his Sept. 4 flight from Rome for the beginning of a three-nation tour […]

Pope to create 13 new cardinals in October

Pope Francis announced he will create 13 new cardi-nals on Oct. 5, choosing prelates from 13 different nations as a sign of “the missionary vocation of the church that continues to proclaim the merciful love of God to all men and women of the earth.” The only Canadian named was 73-year-old Jesuit Father Michael Czerny, […]

Vatican: German synod plans ‘not ecclesiologically valid’

In a letter sent to German bishops, the Vatican has said that plans for a binding Church Synod in Germany are “not ecclesiologically valid.” Plans for a “binding synodal process” were first announced by Cardinal Reinhard Marx, head of the German episcopal conference, earlier this year. CNA reported that draft statues for the planned “Synodal Assembly” […]

Catholic missionaries hit the streets to evangelize

Missionaries from the Institute of the Incarnate Word have been pounding the pavement this September to invite Brooklynites around St Teresa of Avila, Crown Heights, and Co-Cathedral of St Joseph’s, Prospect Heights, to church. The group of 40 religious brothers and sisters, most of them students, came from the Washington D.C. area. They begin each […]

Pope celebrates Madagascar’s ‘living saint’, champion of the poor

Pope Francis on Sept. 8 celebrated a former student of his who is now sometimes called Madagascar’s “living saint” for having changed the lives of thousands of poor people who once lived in garbage dumps. Thousands of former slum dwellers, many of them children, gave the Pope an ecstatic welcome, leaving him seemingly overwhelmed by […]

Church must seek new paths in Amazon, synod secretaries say

The Synod of Bishops for the Amazon will help the Catholic Church make its presence felt and voice heard in a region that is dangerously approaching “a point of no return,” said the special secretaries of the Synod. “It is a great and continuing challenge for the Catholic Church to make the original Amazonian peoples […]

From inspiration to adoption: A story of working with Mother Teresa

More than 20 years ago, Ann Pollak travelled to Calcutta, hoping to volunteer alongside Mother Teresa. The experience would spark a years-long process that would eventually lead her to adopt a severely handicapped child from one of the care centres run by the Missionaries of Charity. “It has not been easy, at all, but the […]

Church spreads education in Arunachal Pradesh

Arunachal Pradesh has a literacy rate of 66.95 percent as per the 2011 census, with 73.69 percent being men and 59.57 percent women. In 2001, literacy rate in Arunachal Pradesh stood at 54.34 percent of which male and female were 63.83 percent and 43.53 percent literate respectively. One cannot but notice the sharp increase in […]