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) – German Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich and Freising, 67, has submitted his resignation to Pope Francis, saying that bishops must begin to accept responsibility for the institutional failures of the Church in handling the clerical sexual abuse crisis. Cardinal Marx released a statement on June 4 … Read More about Citing ‘systemic failures’ in handling abuse, German cardinal offers resignation
VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Pope Francis insists “synodality” requires listening, and not only on the part of people in the pews. But it is not easy, said Archbishop Mark Coleridge, president of the bishops’ conference of Australia, which will hold the first assembly of its plenary council in October. “I’ve … Read More about Australia’s plenary council: Listening brings liberation, archbishop says
VATICAN CITY (CNS) – The remains of St Peter may have been, and possibly still could be, buried in catacombs under the Mausoleum of St Helena after being moved from the Vatican hillside during anti-Christian persecutions in the third century, according to a paper published recently by three Italian researchers. Labelling their … Read More about Scholar discounts new claim St Peter’s remains may be in forgotten tomb
VATICAN CITY (CNS) – A series of laws and procedures promulgated by now-retired Pope Benedict XVI and, especially, by Pope Francis to protect children, promote the investigation of allegations of clerical sexual abuse and punish offenders are included in a heavily revised section of the Code of Canon Law. The … Read More about Pope promulgates revised canon law on crimes, punishments
WASHINGTON, DC (CNS) – After receiving an unprecedented letter from 67 bishops appealing for a delay in a discussion during the US bishops’ upcoming spring general assembly on whether to prepare a teaching document on the reception of Communion, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops’ president explained in a memo … Read More about Delay urged in US bishops’ discussion of eucharistic worthiness
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (CNS) – About 14,000 people in drought-ravaged southern Madagascar face starvation after exhausting all their options to cope, relief organisation representatives said. The utter silence of a room filled with young children “overwhelmed me”, said Arduino Mangoni, deputy country director of the UN’s World Food Program. … Read More about Southern Madagascar drought leads to starvation; pandemic complicates aid
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