Month: October 2019

Cardinal Angelo Becciu

Vatican Cardinal Becciu denies “slanderous” charges of wrongdoing in London property purchase

Synodal path of the German Church

German Church voices hail “success” of Amazon Synod on celibacy and women, move ahead with “synodal path”

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI

Pope Benedict covered up sex assaults of “very gay” and “horny” Vatican prelate: report

Bishop of Gdánsk Sławoj Leszek Głódź

Gdansk priests denounce archbishop to nuncio for bullying, trafficking in Church offices

A protest over the planned direct provision centre in Ballinamore

Kilmore monsignor condemns attack on pro-migration politician

A Catalan pro-independence protest

Catalan bishop calls for release of jailed independence leaders

Pope Francis with female participants in the Amazon Synod

Catholic women say timid Amazon Synod opening to female deacons “unacceptable”, more needed

A priest prays in a Church (illustrative)

Sacraments could “disappear” from Irish churches as priests become “endangered species”: cleric

Abuse in the Church (illustrative)

Swiss diocese to unveil cathedral memorial to abuse survivors

The lorry in which the dead were found in Essex

Irish Primate decries “horror”, “evil” of human trafficking after lorry deaths

Italian PM Giuseppe Conte, in the European Parliament

Italian PM caught up in Vatican corruption probe

Religion in schools

Croatian opposition blasts Government for allowing “back door” for Church into school textbooks

The thirteenth-century Trisulti Charterhouse in Italy

Italian bishop breathes “sigh of relief” after closure of Bannon far-right, ultra-Catholic “gladiator school”

Novartis sheds 300 jobs in County Cork plant

Bishop warns against Irish “dependence” on multinationals as another 320 jobs lost in Cork

The Christ the King Cathedral in Reykjavík, Iceland

Iceland Catholics want more influence on politics… just to condemn same-sex marriage and abortion?

Cardinals in St. Peter's Basilica

Let women be cardinals if they are ordained to the diaconate, says Cardinal Hollerich

Pope Francis at the Amazon Synod closing Mass

Ecological “sin”, married priests, women deacons… The Amazon Synod final document in seven key ideas

Migrants at the Vucjak camp, near Bihac, northwest Bosnia

Sarajevo cardinal warns “chaos reigns” for migrants in Bosnia-Herzegovina

Barcelona priest Joan Cabot

Barcelona priest expresses wish to officiate same-sex marriages in church

Zaragoza's Cathedral of the Saviour

Spanish Church cashes in on 30,000 ‘expropriated’ properties

Bishops of COMECE at their Autumn Assembly in Brussels

Bishops urge EU to take “ambitious steps” on development, climate, human rights

Cardinal Gerhard Müller

Vocal Synod critic Cardinal Müller once backed married priests

Pope Francis with one of the Amazon statues

Pope apologises to indigenous for robbery, profanation of Amazon statues

Vatican cardinal Peter Turkson

Vatican working on document to unify, clean up investments: cardinal

Amazon Synod auditor Sister Birgit Weiler

Synod Sister calls for new bishops’ forum on role of women in Church

Italian photographer Oliviero Toscani

Italian who called Church a “masochist club” convicted of blasphemy, fined 4,000 euros

US multinational Molex closes its plant in Shannon, Ireland

Bishop decries rise of “two-tier Ireland” as 500 lose jobs in mid-west factory closure

Cardinal Hollerich, at the COMECE Assembly in Brussels

Cardinal Hollerich sets EU Church sights on “wild capitalism”, more ethics for multinationals

The lorry in which the dead were found in eastern England

Catholics deplore “horrendous tragedy” of forced migration as 39 found dead in container in England

Vigil near the Vatican for women priests

Equality campaigners tell Synod: “Empowered women will save the Church”