International

Collaboration for peace during visit to Gulf-kingdom of Bahrain

Pope Francis met with Muslim leaders in the Gulf-kingdom of Bahrain on November 4 with a message that Catholics and Muslims alike are called to work to promote peace in the world. Speaking at the Grand Mosque on the grounds of Bahrain’s Sakhir Palace on November 4, the Pope told the Muslim Council of Elders […]

Pope Francis calls on religious not to be discouraged by ‘lack of vocations or by aging’

Pope Francis on November 7 asked religious not to succumb to pessimism over a lack of vocations and to pray with him to “deliver us from the presumption of self-sufficiency and the spirit of worldly criticism.” Addressing representatives of the Claretianum Institute of the Theology of the Consecrated Life on the occasion of its 50th […]

Poll: Nearly half of Americans think the US should be a Christian nation

Forty-five percent of Americans believe the U.S. should be a “Christian nation,” one of several striking findings from a sweeping new Pew Research Center survey examining Christian nationalism. But researchers say respondents differed greatly when it came to outlining what a Christian nation should look like, suggesting a wide spectrum of beliefs. “There are a lot of […]

Anglican Converts Warn of Synodal Perils

Drawing on their experience of the Church of England’s synodal process, high-profile Anglican converts to Catholicism are warning of the perils of Pope Francis’ Synod on Synodality. Two former Anglican bishops, Dr. Michael Nazir-Ali and Dr. Gavin Ashenden, who recently came home to Rome, are cautioning against the synod being hijacked by “pressure groups” and the […]

Record number of Swiss Catholics left the Church in 2021

A record number of Swiss Catholics formally left the Church in 2021, according to new stati-stics. The Swiss Institute of Pastoral Sociology (SPI) in St. Gallen said that 34,182 people left the Church last year, around 2,500 more than in the previous record-setting year of 2019. Around 2.96 million people remained members of the Church […]

Grand Imam Lectures Francis on ‘True’ Islam

The grand imam of Al-Azhar offered a robust defence of “true” Islam before Pope Francis at the Bahrain Forum for Dialogue on the first day of the pontiff’s apostolic journey to Bahrain. “What is said and promoted from time to time about the institution of war in Islam against the infidels is not true,” Sheikh Ahmed […]

German bishop calls current Catholic teaching on sexuality ‘too simple’

Bishop Helmut Dieser of Aachen wants the Catholic Church to take a new perspective on sexuality. “Same-sex feelings and love are not an aberration, but a variant of human sexuality,” he said in an interview with Deutsche Welle Nov. 8. His remarks were reported by the German Catholic news agency, KNA. Homosexuals have a right […]

Islamist rebels kill nun, six others at Catholic hospital in DR Congo

A Catholic nun serving in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was among the seven people killed October 19 evening when gunmen aligned with the Islamic State attacked a Catholic mission hospital in a raid. Sister Marie-Sylvie Kavuke Vakatsuraki and six patients at the hospital were killed Oct. 19 when gunmen with the Allied Democratic […]

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