By MARILYN RODRIGUES SYDNEY (OSV News) – The joy of Eastertide has turned to shock and bewilderment across Sydney’s Catholic community in the wake of a deadly knife attack at Bondi Junction Westfield shopping centre on April 13, in which seven people were killed and a dozen injured, including a nine-month-old baby. Archbishop Anthony Fisher of … Read More about Eastertide joy turns to tears as Sydney Catholics mourn horrific knife attack’s victims
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Still sick, Pope has aide read his audience talk on envy and pride
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Cardinal Schönborn warns of schism as Rome halts German bishops’ vote on lay committee
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Catholic mother of 2 killed in Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade mass shooting
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Jesus obeyed the most challenging of commandments: to love one’s enemies; and he invites humanity to do the same by breaking a vicious cycle of evil, sorrow and hatred with love and forgiveness, Pope Francis said on Palm Sunday. “As disciples of Jesus, do we follow … Read More about Pope Francis calls for Easter truce between warring parties
VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Pope Francis has asked several families to write the prayers and meditations for his Stations of the Cross service at Rome’s Colosseum on Good Friday. The request comes during the year Pope Francis asked Catholics to dedicate to families and to a rereading of “Amoris Laetitia”, … Read More about Pope asks families to write 2022 Way of the Cross meditations
JERUSALEM (CNS) – With pandemic restrictions almost fully lifted, churches and shopkeepers alike are hopeful that the streets of Jerusalem will fill up once again as Easter, Passover and Ramadan converge. Joseph Hazboun, regional director of the Catholic Near East Welfare Association-Pontifical Mission in Jerusalem, noted that the pandemic has … Read More about As three feasts converge, Holy Land Christians hope for peace, tourism
MANCHESTER, England (CNS) – Police in England have produced national guidelines to allow priests to give last rites to Catholics dying at crime scenes. The change follows the outcry by Catholics at the denial of permission to Father Jeffrey Woolnough to pass through a police cordon and administer the sacrament … Read More about English police to allow priests to give last rites at crime scenes
HAMBURG, Germany (CNS) – Munich Cardinal Reinhard Marx has called for a change in Catholic teaching on homosexuality, reported the German Catholic news agency KNA. “The catechism is not set in stone. One may also question what it says,” Cardinal Marx told the weekly magazine Stern in an interview published on March 31. “Homosexuality … Read More about German cardinal calls for change in Church teaching on homosexuality
VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Members of the Métis National Council gave Pope Francis a set of beaded moccasins and asked him to walk with them on the path of truth, justice and healing of Canada’s Indigenous communities and their relationship with the Catholic Church, said Cassidy Caron, president of the … Read More about Canadian Indigenous give Pope moccasins, ask him to walk with them.
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