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Police official: Short-circuit likely caused Notre-Dame fire

Paris police investigators think an electrical short-circuit most likely caused the fire at Notre-Dame Cathedral, a police official said on April 18 , as France paid a daylong tribute to the firefighters who saved the world-renowned landmark. A judicial police official told The Associated Press that investigators made an initial assessment of the cathedral Wednesday […]

Fire chaplain helped to save religious artefacts from burning cathedral

A hero emerging from the Notre-Dame Cathedral fire on April 15 was Father Jean-Marc Fournier, chaplain of the Paris Fire Brigade, who is credited with saving a reliquary containing the crown of thorns and the Blessed Sacrament from the burning cathedral. “Father Fournier is an absolute hero,” a member of the Paris fire department told […]

Draft of new constitution for Curia reform ready for consultation

A draft of the proposed apostolic constitution for reforming and governing the Roman Curia will soon be sent out to leaders of the world’s bishops’ conferences, religious orders and some pontifical universities for their observations and suggestions. The draft, which has been approved by Pope Francis’ Council of Cardinals, will be subjected to this “consultative […]

Solutions need to be found with the whole Church, not just Rome

At a visit to La Croix during a Paris conference organized by the German, Swiss and French bishops’ conferences on “The common good in Europe,” Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich, a member of Pope Francis’ advisory council of cardinals, reflects on the crisis that the Church is currently experiencing. “Since Vatican II, we have asked […]

Pope and Moroccoan King make joint appeal to protect Jerusalem status quo

Pope Francis has signed a joint appeal with Morocco’s King Mohammed VI to protect the status quo of Jerusalem as a place of worship for the followers of the monotheistic faiths. The Holy See has long supported a two-state solution in the Middle East, and supports the international community’s position that Jerusalem is a city […]

From the ashes of genocide, Islam rises in Rwanda

A handful of Muslims took a stand during the hundred days of slaughter. Their stance inspired thousands of Rwandans to become Muslim in what was once called Africa’s most Catholic country. “I was a Catholic pastor before genocide,” Matabaro Sulaiman told TRT World on a chilly in Kigali, dressed in a flashy purple jilbab – […]

Archbishop of Canterbury to lead a spiritual retreat at the Vatican

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, was in the Vatican to lead a retreat for civil and ecclesiastical authorities of South Sudan. Pope Francis has approved the proposal presented by the Archbishop of Canterbury, His Grace Justin Welby, to organise a spiritual retreat to take place in the Vatican, within the Domus Sanctae Marthae, from […]

Analysis: Pope Francis’ new exhortation ‘Christus Vivit’

Laphidil Oppong Twumasi, a youth leader from Ghana, reads Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation, “Christus Vivit” (Christ Lives), during a news conference for its presentation at the Vatican on April 2, 2019 As a young Jesuit, Jorge Bergoglio taught literature to a group of rowdy, hormonal teenage boys at a private school in Argentina who, according […]