4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (860+ words) As French bishops fight against time to organise Pope Leo XIV’s visit to the country, they stress the apostolic trip will be a “very significant moment” for Catholics in France and beyond. On 8 September, the president of the French bishops…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (200+ words) Peru’s port city of Callao is preparing a striking welcome for Pope Leo XIV ahead of his November visit: a 45.9-foot-tall statue that city officials say will be the largest monument to the pontiff in the world. Set to overlook…...

6+ day, 7+ hour ago   (601+ words) Pope Leo XIV returned 7 September to the Marian shrine of Our Lady of Good Counsel, where he asked the Virgin Mary for aid to bring God’s word to light through “courageous and wise decisions.” The pope traveled to Genazzano, a…...

1+ week, 7+ hour ago   (403+ words) A court in Hong Kong rejected appeals brought by Cardinal Joseph Zen and four other defendants who were convicted in 2022 for failing to register a now-defunct fund to help anti-government protesters. The 94-year-old cardinal and four others – Denise Ho, Hui…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (361+ words) A full to-do list? No time to write a homily? HomilyWriterAI has everything a busy priest or deacon needs: Scripture, Church Fathers, Catholic commentaries, and magisterial sources. This website says that it was created for priests “who need more time…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (155+ words) Decades of allegations, systemic cover-ups and canonical delays frame the timeline of the abuse scandal surrounding former Jesuit Father Marko Rupnik. Dating back to the early 1990s at the Loyola Community in Slovenia, allegations of psychological, spiritual and sexual abuse against…...

2+ week, 5+ hour ago   (347+ words) Iraq’s Prime Minister, Ali al-Zaidi, has declared that the return of Christian families is a national priority. He has pledged to include returnees in a government program that is offering one million residential plots. Iraq was home to around 1.5 million…...

2+ week, 7+ hour ago   (214+ words) Ahead of the upcoming papal trip to France, Pope Leo XIV met with Bernard Arnault, the head of Louis Vuitton and Europe’s richest man who contributed 200 million euros (over $233 million) toward the reconstruction of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. The…...

2+ week, 8+ hour ago   (257+ words) An apostolic letter in the form of a motu proprio by Pope Leo XIV, “Mutua concordia,” published 29 August, amends Canons 106 and 126 of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches and grants the Synod of Bishops the power, through “an…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (766+ words) By Emeritus Professor Michael Quinlan, The University of Notre Dame Australia I attended the Alliance For Responsible Citizenship (ARC) Conference in London in June this year. It was the largest conference yet, attracting about 4,000 attendees. For those not familiar with…...