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Cardinal Sarah finally speaks out on Fiducia Supplicans

January 09, 2024

Cardinal Robert Sarah has given his first in-depth and public interview on Fiducia Supplicans, the controversial new document on same-sex blessings from the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) released in December. The former Prefect for the Congregation for Divine Worship, the Vatican’s Liturgical Office now headed by former Bishop of Leeds Cardinal

Time to ‘seriously discuss’ ending priestly celibacy in Catholic Church, declares Maltese archbishop

January 09, 2024

An archbishop viewed as a major ally of Pope Francis has called for the end to the discipline of priestly celibacy in the Catholic Church. Maltese Archbishop Charles Scicluna said the time was ripe “to discuss the issue seriously” – and to give priests the choice to marry. “This is probably the first time I’m

Pope highlights civilian casualties in a world ‘increasingly lacerated’ by conflict

January 08, 2024

ROME – After a year that saw thousands of civilians killed in wars and violent conflicts, Pope Francis told diplomats accredited to the Holy See that international war crimes must be recognised and prevented. In his 8 January address, the Pope noted that as the year 2024 opens the world is “increasingly lacerated” by conflict,

US bishops back ‘Bread Not Stones’ campaign against military-industrial complex

January 08, 2024

NEW YORK – Seventeen US bishops have thrown their weight behind a campaign to encourage Congress to redirect military spending towards helping the nation’s poor and marginalised. Those leading the campaign hope to see more bishops add their support. For decades, Catholic peace advocacy organisation Pax Christi USA has advocated through its “Bread Not Stones”

Vatican issues ‘clarification’ on same-sex blessings amid Fiducia Supplicans backlash

January 04, 2024

ROME – Less than a month after issuing an instruction outlining the reasoning and method for giving non-liturgical blessings to same-sex couples and those in irregular unions, the Vatican has published a clarification amid a flurry of backlash and confusion. In a 4 January press release, the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith

Pope offers usual Christmas message of hope while lamenting ‘the little Jesuses of today’ lost to war, migration and abortion

December 28, 2023

At the end of a year marked by the outbreak of fresh wars and by various personal health crises, Pope Francis at Christmas offered a message of hope, saying Jesus’s birth brings light to a dark world and his littleness shows the path of salvation, through humility and love. Though he also took to task

Mongolia’s tiny Catholic community just got a Christmas Eve boost

December 27, 2023

ULAANBAATAR – One of the world’s smallest Catholic flocks is growing in number, after the Mongolian Church added three native women to its ranks on Christmas Eve, nearly four months after Pope Francis’s visit earlier this year. There’s no other country on earth where the addition of just three converts would warrant much news. But

Don’t give up on the Church – and certainly not because of Fiducia Supplicans

December 24, 2023

Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat and a lot of Catholics are arguing after the release of Fiducia Supplicans. Welcome to the contentious end of 2023! Back in 2018 I was at a Catholic event and ran into Austen Ivereigh, the Catholic journalist, author and biographer of Pope Francis. I explained to him that