International

Nigerian cardinal says it’s not just Christians paying price of country’s violence

According to the former top Catholic official of Nigeria’s capital city, the violence in the country is “getting out of hand.” It’s not only Christians paying the price, he said. None of the country’s 200 million people are safe. “There is great insecurity throughout the country, people are being killed every day; bandits and terrorists […]

Pope Francis on birth control: Can the teaching of the Church on contraception change?

Can the Church’s teaching on birth control change? During Pope Francis’ return flight from Canada, a journalist asked him about the possibility of a development in the Church’s teaching on contraception. “This is very timely. But know that dog-ma, morality, is always in a path of development, but development in the same direct-ion,” Pope Francis […]

Lambeth Conference’s opening Sunday Eucharist stresses service, hospitality

Episcopal and Anglican bishops and their spouses filled Canterbury Cathedral on July 31 for the opening Sunday Eucharist of the Lambeth Conference. The service spanned several hours and was marked by prayer and pageantry in a worship space with more than 1,400 years of history that was described in a welcoming message as “the heart […]

Cardinal Müller: ‘The German Synodal Way was over before it even started’

Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, prefect emeritus of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, has sharply criticized the Synodal Way in Germany. In an interview, the 74-year-old cardinal said that the Synodal Way, declared a “reform process” by its initiators, is “over” and was on an “anti-Catholic, wrong track.” The Holy See issued a […]

Baby Blues: How to Face the Church’s Growing Fertility Crisis

Data from the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) from 1982 to 2019, along with data from four waves of the Demographic Intelligence Family Survey (DIFS) from 2020 to 2022, point to a widening gap in fertility rates between more religious and less religious Americans. In recent years, the fertility gap by religion has widened […]

Bishops must be good listeners, says nun at Vatican who helps select them

While the perfect Bishop does not exist, he does have to be a person who knows how to get others involved in the life of the church and to listen to everyone, including those with whom he may disagree, said a new member of the Dicastery for Bishops. French Salesian Sister Yvonne Reungoat told Vida […]

Mexican parish to remember victims of violence with 130,000 candles

A Mexican parish will remember the victims of violence in the country with 130,000 candles to be lit the night of July 30, as part of the Day of Prayer for Peace called by the Mexican Bi-shops’ Conference. In a video message, Father Alberto Medel, pastor of Our Father Parish in the Diocese of Xochimilco, […]

“We are not a colony, …but a free, independent state.” Zelenskyy says on Ukrainian Statehood Day

Ukrainians will fight for their statehood to the last and will not stop until they liberate the last meter of Ukrainian land, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a video address for Ukrainian Statehood Day July 28. The day marks the 988 baptism of “Kyivan Rus,” the origin of Christianity in the region, but this is […]

Eviction-facing Indian Catholics to fight Muslim charity’s claims

Goans oppose tourism project near 16th century basilica