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) – Pope Francis said the title of his new letter on the environment will be “Laudate Deum”, (Praise God), a frequent refrain in several psalms, including Psalm 148, which tells the heavens and the angels and the sun and moon to praise the Lord. The new document, … Read More about Pope says his new ecology document is titled ‘Laudate Deum’
LIVERPOOL, England (OSV News) – Police in England have apologised to a Catholic woman six months after she was arrested for praying silently outside an abortion facility. Isabel Vaughan-Spruce was arrested in March outside a British Pregnancy Advisory Services clinic in Birmingham by two uniformed officers from West Midlands Police, and … Read More about English police apologise to woman arrested for silently praying outside abortion facility
VATICAN CITY (CNS) – With more than 450 people gathering at the Vatican from around the world for a monthlong meeting, the General Secretariat of the Synod said it is taking action to reduce the environmental impact of the synod assembly. Making the event plastic free, eliminating waste, using only … Read More about Synod office announces plan to reduce assembly’s carbon footprint
SAO PAOLO (CNA) – September 12 was a special day for Ronaldo Luís Nazario da Lima, the Brazilian and world soccer legend nicknamed “O Fenômeno” (“The Phenomenon”), who at the age of 46 took a significant step in his life of faith by receiving the sacrament of baptism. After the … Read More about Brazilian soccer legend Ronaldo is baptised in Catholic church
By Paulina Guzik, OSV News MARKOWA, Poland (OSV News) – In one of the most significant moments in Polish post-war history, the Ulma family was beatified in Markowa on September 10. “I think it will only get me at night, when I come back home, because now I still can’t … Read More about Pope hails beatified family as ‘ray of light in the darkness’
ROME (CNS) – The synod process underway around the world and at the Vatican is inflicting “evident and grave harm” on the Catholic Church, retired US Cardinal Raymond Burke wrote in a letter published as the foreword to a book. “Synodality and its adjective, synodal, have become slogans behind which a revolution … Read More about Cardinal Burke sees ‘grave harm’ coming from synod process
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