Month: November 2019

German Jesuit dismisses ‘synodal path’ schism talk as “politically motivated exaggeration”

Croatian religion teacher Marin Miletic

Croatian religion teacher unlikely hero of public education strike

New Bishop of Ghent, Belgium, Lode Van Hecke

Why is this new Belgian bishop giving thanks for beer?

New Prefect of the Vatican Secretariat for the Economy Juan Antonio Guerrero

Pope’s new economy czar spotted in American-led Vatican business management seminar

Depression (stock)

French expert denounces “very deeply destabilising” Christian gay ‘conversion therapy’

Consumerism and Black Friday

Barcelona cardinal decries “madness”, “exaggerated consumerism” of Black Friday

A priest saying Mass (illustrative only)

Belgian Salesians point finger at courts after pedophile priest fiasco in Africa

Lyon cardinal Philippe Barbarin

As French cardinal appeals abuse cover-up conviction, his diocese wants to “turn the page”

Thomas Sternberg (l) and Cardinal Reinhard Marx, leaders of the German Church's 'synodal path'

German ‘synodal path’ leaders insist on need for “change and renewal” in Church

Laypeople in the pews (stock)

Irish faithful warn bishops lack of lay leadership of “serious concern”

A nun listens to a Mass (stock)

Italian convent forced to close… was Mother Superior ousted over affair?

Pope Francis in Wednesday's General Audience

Francis slams “hypocrisy” of “talking peace and selling war”

German Bishop of Limburg Georg Bätzing

German bishop warns “truths of our faith cannot be rigid and immovable”

Beds in a hospital (stock)

Irish Government scotches rumours Vatican could block new National Maternity Hospital over abortions

Climate change crisis

Ahead of UN summit, Amazon Synod cardinals warn governments inaction on climate a “crime”

Pope Francis on his return flight from Japan

Pope insists Vatican financial reforms “working” despite corruption investigation

The pain of divorce

Milestone: Italian bishops welcome divorced and remarried Catholics back to sacraments

A priest on the street in a cassock (stock)

Paris archbishop says cassock wearing in young priests a “sign of fragility”

Desecration in Piltown, Co Kilkenny, Ireland

Bishop laments faith in Ireland met with “ridicule, insult and aggression”

Vatican cardinal Angelo Becciu

Vatican Cardinal Becciu “shocked” by “shameful”, “misleading” reports pinning him for financial wrongdoing

IVF treatment

Have the Polish Bishops ‘stolen’ embryos from IVF women?

A gay couple holding hands (stock)

German laity push bishops for blessings for gay couples

Equality for women in the Catholic Church

Spanish women quit Church en masse in protest over Catholic “sexism”

French journalist Nicolas Senèze (r) with Pope Francis

Author of Francis opposition “bomb” book takes down myth German Church most active lobby group in Vatican

Trier Cathedral in Germany

Vatican nixes controversial German parish reform plan

2017 EU Eastern Partnership Summit

European Bishops urge EU to “fair and people-centred” Eastern Partnership

British lesbian Jayne Ozanne Thursday with Pope Francis

Meet the British lesbian fighting gay “conversion therapy” with the Gospel

Church weddings down in Italy (stock)

Italians say ‘Arrivederci’ to church weddings

Pope Francis hugs a child in Thailand

Pope challenges world “not to give in to indifference”

Women in the Church (stock)

German Bishops’ secretary urges “more courage” in opening up Church offices to women