Fides says 20 ‘missionaries’ died violently in 2020

Attacked because of their faith, killed in a robbery, murdered in a general climate of violence or struck down by someone with obvious mental difficulties, the 20 missionaries who died violent deaths in 2020 were witnesses of the Gospel, said Fides, the Vatican’s missionary news agency. Presenting its annual list of missionaries killed during the... Read More

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December 18, 2020

French court finds former nuncio guilty of sexual assault

A French criminal court found an Italian archbishop guilty of sexual assault against four men and handed him, in absentia, an eight-month suspended prison sentence. The court in Paris also ordered Archbishop Luigi Ventura, 76, to pay nearly 13,000 euros in compensation to four victims for “pain and suffering” and 9,000 euros in legal costs,... Read More

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November 24, 2020

Defiant priest vows to continue with Mass after police visit

A priest has vowed to keep his church open despite being warned by the police that he risked prosecution after he celebrated Mass in the presence of his parishioners. Fr PJ Hughes says he could not force people to leave Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Mullahoran while he celebrated Mass. The priest, originally from... Read More

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November 23, 2020

Amid cover-up allegations, German prelate steps down from lay organisation

Hamburg Archbishop Stefan Hesse has stepped down from his post as spiritual assistant to the Central Committee of German Catholics, the most important laypeople’s organisation of the Church in Germany, pending clarification of all the allegations about his possible role in covering up sexual abuse cases during his time in Cologne. The German Catholic news... Read More

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November 23, 2020

Latino communities have enriched the church, says pope

The presence of Latin Americans around the world has enriched the Catholic Church with a renewed zeal for the Gospel, Pope Francis said. Christian communities in northern and central Europe have “benefited” greatly from Latin American devotions such as the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe from Mexico and the feast of Christ of the... Read More

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November 21, 2020

In lawsuit, Cardinal Becciu claims reports blocked his path to papacy

Cardinal Angelo Becciu, who was forced to resign due to allegations of financial malfeasance, filed a lawsuit against an Italian magazine, claiming it ruined his reputation, which resulted in him losing his chance at becoming pope. According to Italian news agency Adnkronos, the 74-page lawsuit claimed that the “slanderous and defamatory” reporting of L’Espresso influenced... Read More

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November 20, 2020

Bishops’ statement on safeguarding

Following their plenary meeting this week, the Bishops of England and Wales have issued the following statement on safeguarding: The account given in the IICSA Report of abuse known to be inflicted on children in the Catholic Church in England and Wales in the past 50 years is shocking and overwhelming. At our meeting this... Read More

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November 20, 2020

‘Just war’ theory often misused for unjust motives, says cardinal

Pope Francis’ teaching on the “just war” theory is a crucial point of reflection in today’s world where the historic motives to morally justify aggression and violence are often misused, said Cardinal Michael Czerny, undersecretary for the Vatican’s Migrants and Refugees Section. Pope Francis’ recent encyclical, Fratelli Tutti, on Fraternity and Social Friendship, rightly raises... Read More

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November 19, 2020

McCarrick report is ‘tragic chronicle’ of ‘devious’ churchman, church failures

Cardinal-designate Wilton Gregory of Washington said the Vatican’s report on former cardinal Theodore McCarrick is a “tragic chronicle” about that churchman’s “unconscionable human violation.” It also details, he said, Church leaders’ “failures of competence, communications and culture.” In a statement issued as the nation’s Catholic bishops gathered this week for their annual autumn meeting –... Read More

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November 18, 2020

Transparency may be humiliating but McCarrick case shows it is necessary

Mgr Anthony FigueridoI was not expecting a call from the former Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick on Christmas day last year. After all, a few months earlier, I had made public correspondence relating to him that was in my possession as his personal secretary in the Archdiocese of Newark and during his many visits to Rome in... Read More

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Fides says 20 ‘missionaries’ died violently in 2020

French court finds former nuncio guilty of sexual assault

Defiant priest vows to continue with Mass after police visit

Amid cover-up allegations, German prelate steps down from lay organisation

Latino communities have enriched the church, says pope

In lawsuit, Cardinal Becciu claims reports blocked his path to papacy

Bishops’ statement on safeguarding

‘Just war’ theory often misused for unjust motives, says cardinal

McCarrick report is ‘tragic chronicle’ of ‘devious’ churchman, church failures

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