Month: August 2019

'Maria 2.0' protest in Germany for gender equality in the Church

German Catholic women organise new push for gender equality in the Church

Former nuncio in Chile and now in Portugal, Ivo Scapolo

New papal rep in Portugal a sex abuse “demon” and “evildoer”, say Chilean victims

Detail of a communist era mosaic above the entrance to the National Historical Museum in Tirana, Albania

Why Albania’s communist regime couldn’t root out religion

LGBTQ+ equality in the Church

Two German bishops call Church to more “credibility” in approach to gays and lesbians

Chairs packed up at a school (stock)

Schools in Ireland shed ‘Catholic’ label in bid to survive, become more inclusive

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI

German mag blasts Benedict for “intellectual pessimism” on sex abuse crisis

Soldiers of Slovenia's World War II era Dombranci home-guard

Slovenians criticise Church for Nazi historical revisionism

Bishop of Požega (Croatia), Antun Škvorčević

Croatian bishop condemns outbreak of “unacceptable” anti-Serb violence

Homophobic Finnish politician Päivi Räsänen

Homophobic Finnish politician cries wolf on “anti-Christian persecution”

Eritrean priest in Rome, Mussie Zerai

Eritrean priest in Rome laments EU “walls” to forced migrants and refugees