Month: June 2019

Head of the worldwide Orthodox Church Patriarch Bartholomew

Orthodox head weighs into Church-State debate in Montenegro

Members of SIGNIS Europe at their meeting in Rome

European Catholic communicators pledge to build “community”

German Catholic women push for new female Bishops' secretary after incumbent steps down

Half a million German Catholic women demand access to priesthood

Pope Francis with German cardinal Reinhard Marx

Pope supports German push to revise celibacy, sexual morality and clerical power… with a catch

Sant'Egidio welcomes 40 Syrian refugees to Rome

Italian Church group welcomes 40 Syrian refugees to Rome

Dutch populist politician Thierry Baudet

Frustration with system drives Dutch Catholics to populism

Werner Freistetter, new apostolic administrator of the diocese of Gurk, Austria

Pope takes reins of Austrian diocese hit by bishop’s sex, financial scandals

Pope Francis with a delegate from the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople

Pope to Orthodox: Church unity “not monotonous levelling, much less absorption”

Cardinal Walter Kasper and Pope Francis

Kasper slams “completely absurd” reports of secret Amazon Synod meeting

Pope Francis with Slovenian PM Marjan Šarec

Slovenian PM: Pope wants EU move into Western Balkans

A priest celebrates the Mass

“Children of Satan” no more: French Church promises justice for priests’ offspring

Cardinal Omella in Brussels in 2013

Court probes Barcelona cardinal for alleged falsification of documents in priest paternity case

ACAT prayer vigil for an end to torture

French Christians pray for end to “evil” of torture

Cardinal Raymond Burke

Ultraconservative Cardinal Burke blasts populist Steve Bannon, ‘fake news’ LifeSite

Migrant rescue ship Sea-Watch 3

Archbishop, cardinal stand up to Salvini over stranded refugees

Church and square in Montenegro

Update: Council of Europe dismisses freedom of religion concerns in Montenegro

Cologne Cathedral

Journalists take fight to Cologne Church over secret billions

Mass for members of the Order of Malta

Vatican envoy tells warring Order of Malta to leave aside privilege, embrace “humility”

Michel Dubost, new apostolic administrator of Lyon, France

Pope names administrator to French diocese shaken by cardinal’s cover-up

Church of Sveti Ilja, Herceg Novi, Montenegro

Serbia threatens Montenegro over “hostile”, “criminal” church takeover bid

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Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán (2r) with Ethiopian Catholic leaders

Far-right Hungarian PM, Ethiopian Catholics coincide on “Christian roots of Europe” agenda

German Bishops' Conference president Cardinal Reinhard Marx

Cardinal calls for women leaders in Vatican, intercommunion with Protestants

Meeting in Malta of European Bishops' spokespersons

European Bishops’ spox tackle “communication in crisis situations”

Pope Francis in Naples

Pope pleads for “encounter and dialogue” to right “enormous injustices” in Mediterranean

Bishop of Southern Albania Giovanni Peragine

Albanian bishop: political turmoil risks “real social crisis”, return of “ghosts of past misery”

Plenary of the Austrian Bishops

Austrian Bishops call on politicians to tone down tensions after ‘Ibizagate’ scandal

The Pope in Naples in 2015

Pope to forge “new theology” for Mediterranean

Cross at sunset

Cults choke French Church: 1,300 complaints in five months

Permanent Representative of the Holy See to the FAO, Fernando Chica

Vatican to Governments: “Reject consumerism and restore solidarity”