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”