Pope and religious leaders pray for peace and greater care for one another

The only way to end war and ensure humanity’s survival is “through encounter and negotiation, setting aside our conflicts and pursuing reconciliation, moderating the language of politics and propaganda, and developing true paths of peace”, Pope Francis said. The pope, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople and an international array of other Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Sikh... Read More

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October 17, 2020

World Mission Sunday isn’t cancelled because of Covid-19, say officials

The collection taken up in parishes around the globe on World Mission Sunday is “as unique as it is rare” because offerings are made by Catholics in the richest and poorest nations, a Vatican official said. “It is not just aid going from North to South,” but is an expression of communion where “everyone contributes... Read More

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October 10, 2020

Caring for children: Religious sisters launch global push for reform

Religious sisters have launched a global movement to overhaul the way religious orders practice their ‘charism of care’ for orphaned or abandoned children. The Rome-based International Union of Superiors General launched Catholic Care for Children International online on 2nd October, inviting all women’s and men’s religious orders to join the global initiative to end or reduce... Read More

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August 28, 2020

New survey of German religious orders finds decades of abuse accusations

A new survey of heads of German Catholic religious orders found abuse allegations against at least 654 members over a period of decades, reported the German Catholic news agency KNA. The survey of 392 orders found at least 1,412 children, adolescents or wards were the victims of sexual abuse. Of the victims, around 80 per cent were male and around 20 per... Read More

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August 23, 2020

A lot of room in the inn: most of Italy’s religious guesthouses reopen

The Covid-19 pandemic has dealt a powerful blow to the tourism industry, including the religious guesthouses in Italy that specialise in welcoming pilgrims. Fabio Rocchi, president of the Italian association of religious guesthouses, said that of the 1,700 guesthouses he regularly interacts with only “140 have closed their doors to hospitality definitively. The properties will... Read More

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August 19, 2020

Focus on Christ to discover joy in serving others, pope tells religious

Men and women religious need to live out their mission serving people by having their gaze fixed on God, not on worldly things, Pope Francis said. Keeping Jesus as one’s ‘first and only love’ helps consecrated men and women be able, ‘as is our duty, to truly and mercifully love everyone we meet on our... Read More

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July 25, 2020

Religious persecution in China cannot be ignored, says Aontú leader

Religious persecution, concentration camps and genocide in China cannot be ignored, the leader of an all-Ireland political party has insisted. Aontú leader and Meath West TD Peadar Tóibín has led calls urging the Irish government to ‘immediately condemn the barbaric measures being used by the Chinese Government to slash the Uighur Muslim population in China’, as well as the... Read More

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July 24, 2020

Vatican foreign minister: Religious freedom must be protected

The Catholic Church has failed to defend Christians effectively, partly because it historically accepted persecution as part of its “community story”, a Vatican official said. Archbishop Paul Gallagher, the Vatican’s foreign minister, told an online forum that efforts to counter persecution were now required because the entire fabric of human rights was at stake –... Read More

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June 24, 2020

Women religious honored for work on pandemic’s front lines

Women religious working “on the front lines,” exposed to the coronavirus yet continuing to care for abandoned children, working to alleviate poverty, providing health care and helping victims of human trafficking are not “super women,” said Comboni Sr Alicia Vacas. Instead, they are women with great faith, compassion, generosity and determination, she said, “but also... Read More

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