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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by JUSTIN McLELLAN (CNS) VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Of the more than 1300 Marian images crowned around the world, one of the first to receive this honour does not have a crown today. For over 350 years, Michelangelo’s Pietà, instantly recognisable by Catholics and non-Catholics alike, was one of several … Read More about St Peter’s Basilica opens exhibit on Marian coronations
By GINA CHRISTIAN (OSV News) (OSV News) – The recent discovery of a Black American nun’s apparently incorrupt remains in Missouri highlights the rich heritage of Black Catholics in the US, experts told OSV News. During an April 28 exhumation, the body of Benedictine Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster of the Most Holy Rosary … Read More about US nun’s incorruptible remains could help see her cause launched
VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Pope Francis formally recognised the martyrdom of an Italian priest shot by Nazi soldiers after they discovered he was helping his parishioners hide about 100 Jews. The martyrdom of Father Giuseppe Beotti, who was arrested and shot on July 20, 1944, in Sidolo in northern Italy, … Read More about Pope advances sainthood cause of Italian priest shot for saving Jews
VATICAN CITY (CNS) – The Catholic Church must combat clericalism among its ranks by giving authority to a “responsible and reliable” laity, the head of the Vatican’s development dicastery said. In an article co-written by theology professor Father Christian Barone, Cardinal Michael Czerny, prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral … Read More about Fighting clericalism means empowering laity, cardinal says
It was altogether fitting and appropriate that the last of a series of Masses celebrated in Auckland for the late Archbishop Alapati Lui Mata’eliga of Samoa-Apia should be celebrated on Good Shepherd Sunday. That is what Auckland Bishop Stephen Lowe told the congregation at the Carmelite monastery in Royal Oak, … Read More about Samoan archbishop is farewelled from the largest Samoan city in the world
A very special rug created by Venerable Suzanne Aubert formed part of an exhibition arranged by the Sisters of Compassion – Ngā Whaea O Pūaroha, called “Loose Threads”. Sofia Roberts, events coordinator for the Sisters of Compassion, said that the exhibition was part of a bigger event called the South … Read More about Aubert craft in Island Bay exhibition
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