Month: July 2019

Newly-retired Bishop of Vac (Hungary), Miklos Beer

Hungarian bishop warns PM Orbán nationalism “not Christian”

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI

Benedict’s meddling only encourages anti-Francis conspirators

Vatican gardens

Vatican takes big strides in abuse prevention, environmental protection

Pope Francis in the Philippines in 2015

Pope takes cost-cutting, “careerism” razor to Italian diocese

A priest celebrating the Mass (illustrative)

Parish priest quits in frustration, hits out at “power-obsessed, arrogant Church”

Maryam Mosque in Galway, Ireland

Irish bishop deplores “wilful and malicious assault” on mosque

Challenges of artificial intelligence

Bishops call on EU to tackle “ethical, legal and political challenges” of AI

Beaten Polish priest Aleksander Ziejewski

Polish Bishops denounce “increasingly frequent acts of hatred” after priest beating in Szczecin

Colloquium of the John Paul II Pontifical Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences

What’s going on at the John Paul II Institute in Rome, and why you should care

Cardinal Robert Sarah

Six times ultraconservative Cardinal Sarah opposed Pope Francis

Climate change crisis

What to do with climate migrants? German bishop has an idea

Poland and Hungary

Experts denounce “unholy alliance of altar and state” in Poland, Hungary

Pope Francis with a group of former prostitutes in 2016

Pope condemns this “vice” as “slavery”, “criminal”, “disgusting”, “torture”

Michael Czerny, sj

Politicians fiddling while Europe faces this one big problem, says Vatican official

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI

Benedict’s “strength no longer adequate”? Trip outside Vatican raises questions

Pope Francis prays the Angelus today

“God, why?” Pope pleads for end to migrant “tragedies” in Mediterranean

LGBT Equality March in Poland

Polish Bishops intensify attacks on LGBTs, accuse them of “vulgar mockery”

Exploited migrant workers in Italy

Foggia bishop denounces “poison of racism” behind attacks on migrant workers

Migrant rescue in the Mediterranean

Italian Jesuits warn Salvini migrants “should not be instruments for political propaganda”

Participants at the IARJ conference on journalism and religion in Central and Eastern Europe

Journalists tackle challenges of religion beat in Central and Eastern Europe

Questions around German Amazon Synod funding

Church aid agency head denies ‘fake news’ on German Amazon Synod funding

Boat people off the coast of Sicily

Church orgs want end to “criminalisation of solidarity” after “year’s worst Mediterranean tragedy”

Jökulsárlón Glacial Lagoon, Southeast Iceland

Vatican paper decries “senseless self-destruction” of “tortured” planet

Michael Czerny (l), Vatican subsecretary for migrants and refugees

Vatican official insists Church’s fight for migrants “evangelical”, not political

Brexit

New Irish bishop says people worried hard Brexit border “could lead to violence”

Abuse in the Church (illustrative)

Regensburg and Freiburg bishops double down on fight against sex abuse

A young woman at an airport

Going on holidays? The Vatican has a message for you

A priest saying Mass (illustrative only)

Church historian warns celibate priests “easier to control and blackmail”

Iraqi cardinal Louis Raphael Sako

Iraqi cardinal denounces “relativism”, “Christianophobia” in Europe

IVF treatment

French Bishops criticise “slippery slope” law opening IVF to lesbians