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Hong Kong’s Catholics face ‘collapse of religious freedom’

February 01, 2024

Religious freedom is being lost in Hong Kong due to pressure from the Chinese Communist Party, according to a new report from the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation. Released 30 January 2024, the Hostile Takeover: The CCP and Hong Kong’s Religious Communities report highlights “the systematic breaking of promises” made under the so-called

Religious from 60 countries converge on Vatican to prep for 2025 Jubilee of Hope

February 01, 2024

ROME – Religious representatives are converging on the Vatican this week to prepare for the upcoming 2025 Jubilee of Hope celebrations, which are expected to draw around 35 million pilgrims over the course of the year. From 1 – 4 February, more than 300 representatives of various consecrated communities from over 60 countries will be

Cardinal Ambongo: emerging papal candidate due to Fiducia Supplicans

January 31, 2024

ROME – There is a story that during British rule of India, colonial officials became concerned about poisonous cobras in the city of Delhi and decided to offer a bounty for every dead snake. Enterprising locals, naturally, began to breed cobras in order to collect the reward. When the British discovered the ruse and withdrew

Vatican court overturns priest’s acquittal in landmark seminary sexual abuse case

January 25, 2024

ROME – A Vatican court has overturned the acquittal of a priest accused of sexually abusing a fellow student at the Vatican’s St. Pius X Pre-Seminary, delivering a guilty verdict in a landmark case that marked the first time a case for alleged sexual abuse went to trial within Vatican walls. Upon appeal from the

Is the Pope after an ‘Assisi on the Tiber’ to promote his spiritual vision

January 23, 2024

Mikhail Gorbachev once declared that while he remained an atheist, he had to admit that Soviet Communism had never produced anyone quite like Saint Francis, the Poor Man of Assisi, and his universal humanistic appeal. The former Soviet premier, who visited Assisi in 2008, is one in a long list of global figures who’ve been

Pope urges Vatican press corps to resist sinking to ‘commercial media’ standards

January 23, 2024

ROME – In a rare session with members of the Vatican press corps, Pope Francis thanked journalists for their work, urging them to base their reporting on “the solid rock of responsibility in truth” rather than “the fragile sand of gossip and ideological readings”. In the first-of-its-kind meeting during Francis’s 11-year papacy on 22 January,

Dutch cardinal could get papal successor boost after response to ‘Fiducia Supplicans’

January 21, 2024

ROME – This week voters in the New Hampshire primary will head to the polls, taking part in what has long been the premier proving ground in US politics. A disappointing performance in the New Hampshire primary can spell the premature end of a presidential campaign, while a better-than-expected showing can propel a previously second-tier

Cardinal Fernández prepares document on gender ideology

January 17, 2024

The Vatican is preparing a document on the ideology of gender, the Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has said. Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández made the revelation in an interview with the Spanish news agency EFE. “We are preparing a very important document on human dignity that not only includes social