Novena

Zagreb cardinal Josip Bozanić (l) with new Croatian President Zoran Milanović

Zagreb cardinal invites new Croatian president to “dialogue of mutual respect and understanding”

Derry bishop Donal McKeown

Derry bishop says Northern Ireland needs Government now to avoid worst-case Brexit

People in the pews at Cologne Cathedral, Germany

Germans’ trust in Church, Pope dips as impatience for reform grows

Syrian refugees sleep on the floor of Keleti railway station in Budapest, Hungary, 2015

Vatican officials insist in heart of Europe that “history is made of migrations”, praise Global Compacts on migrants, refugees

Pope Francis says Mass January 9 in the chapel of his residence, the Casa Santa Marta

Francis: “We cannot be Christians if we are sowers of war”

Belgian cardinal Jozef De Kesel

Belgian cardinal says he “cannot exclude” that married men are called to priesthood

Pope Francis January 9 in his 'State of the World' address

Pope denounces world’s “very weak” response to climate change “a source of grave concern”

Bishop of Regensburg (Germany), Rudolf Voderholzer

Theologian accuses German bishop of “moral bankruptcy” for opposing Church reform after abuse crisis

Vatican 'Foreign Minister' Paul Richard Gallagher

Vatican ‘Foreign Minister’ asks EU for “deep, extensive and universal commitment” to migrants

Vatican pointman on sex abuse, Archbishop of Malta Charles Scicluna

Malta archbishop repeats call for “truth, justice and accountability” in case of murdered investigative journalist

Metropolitan Epifaniy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church

Ukrainian Orthodox head says Russian repression in Crimea “reminiscent of Stalinist times”

Pope Francis caresses an elderly woman January 8 in the General Audience

Pope pleads for “fraternal love” to save needy from “frost of indifference and inhumanity”

Brexit

Italian Bishops’ secretary urges EU to rethink common project in wake of Brexit

School chaplain sign

Irish Government accused of opacity, discrimination over public millions for chaplains in State secondary schools

Bishop of Rottenburg-Stuttgart Gebhard Fürst (c), surrounded by fellow German bishops

German bishop says ‘synodal path’ reform process “only chance” for Church, adds women deacons “possible”

Bishop of Trieste Giampaolo Crepaldi

Italian bishop rants against “vulgar and blasphemous” depictions of Christ by “liberal intellectuals”

Pope Francis January 7 at his Mass in the Casa Santa Marta

Pope warns against worldliness, corruption he says “worse than sin”

Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Synod

Serbian Orthodox Church blasts Montenegro Government for “unreasonable” new law on religion

Pope Francis with close advisor Antonio Spadaro SJ

Close papal advisor explains Francis’ response to fears of US-Iran ‘World War III’

Bishop of Feldkirch (Austria), Benno Elbs

Austrian bishop rallies for refugees in danger of deportation, denounces broken asylum system

The fire in Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral

French general supervising Notre Dame rebuild: cathedral could still “fall apart”

Bishop of Magdeburg (Germany) Gerhard Feige

German bishop pushes Church to reform, warns “simply repeating existing doctrines” not enough

Nuncio in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, Thomas Gullickson

Nuncio in Switzerland sends Church back centuries with “recourse to approved authors” in theology

German Protestant head Heinrich Bedform-Strohm

German Protestant head receives death threats for floating refugee rescue ship to which Cardinal Marx has also donated

Toxic landfill

Italian bishops redouble efforts on care for Creation: “We cannot be silent”

Two Wise Men mourn a dead refugee on the shores of the Mediterranean

Wise men ‘stolen’ from German church manger scenes to denounce EU treatment of refugees

Pope Francis adores the Baby Jesus

Pope recalls on Epiphany that “life’s greatness does not consist in having, but in loving”

The infamous 'pope slap'

Francis’ apology for ‘pope slap’ hailed as “immaculate blueprint for saying sorry”

Angelus with the Pope January 5

Pope warns over US-Iran tensions: “War brings only death and destruction”

Pope Francis pours a woman a drink

Pope: “Those who judge are always wrong, because they put themselves in the place of God, the only judge”