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Coronavirus: Catholic churches resume public mass in Italy after two months
Pope Francis inaugurated the full reopening of St. Peter’s Basilica on Monday and Catholic churches held public Masses for the first time in two ... Coronavirus -
Coronavirus outbreak closes all Catholic churches in Rome
Catholic churches across Rome will close until April 3 because of the coronavirus pandemic, which has killed more than 1,000 people across Italy, the ... World News -
Pope presses anti-nuke, environment call in peace message
Pope Francis is pressing his anti-nuke campaign in his annual peace message, saying the fear of nuclear annihilation embodied by the doctrine of ... World News -
Pope to list nuclear weapons as immoral in Catholic manual
Pope Francis announced on Tuesday he would declare the use and possession of nuclear weapons “immoral” in the Catholic Church’s ... Variety -
Pope says he intends to go to South Sudan, urges dialogue
Pope Francis says he intends to go to South Sudan, where efforts are underway to salvage a peace deal. In public remarks Sunday, Francis also urged ... World News -
Harry Potter removed from Tennessee Catholic school library
A Catholic school in Tennessee has removed the Harry Potter books from its library after the school’s priest decided they could cause a reader ... Variety -
Sri Lanka Catholics cancel Sunday mass over new bomb fears
Sri Lanka’s Roman Catholic Church said it had cancelled plans to resume Sunday services because of fears of fresh bomb attacks.A spokesman for ... World News -
Regional and international leaders denounce Sri Lanka attacks
Politicians and religious leaders were united in their shock and condemnation of the explosions that left at least 156 dead and 300 injured in the ... World News -
France urges Vatican to remove diplomatic immunity of envoy
France called on the Vatican on Friday to take action after sex abuse charges were filed against its envoy to Paris, suggesting his diplomatic ... World News -
At Vatican abuse summit, African nun scolds bishops on their errors
An African nun scolded Roman Catholic bishops on Saturday for many mistakes in handling the sexual abuse crisis, saying the Church had to acknowledge ... Features -
From the UAE, Pope Francis calls for unity among all faith leaders
In a speech given during his historic visit to Abu Dhabi, Pope Francis said that no violence can be justified in the name of religion and must be ... Gulf -
Global Catholic nuns urge reporting of sex abuse to police
The Catholic Church’s global organization of nuns has denounced the “culture of silence and secrecy” surrounding sexual abuse in the ... World News -
Pope warns against telling lies, says ‘to gossip is to kill’
Pope Francis is denouncing gossip as a form of “terrorism” and is warning the faithful against telling lies.Francis explored the Catholic ... Variety -
Jerusalem’s Catholic leaders seek repeal of Israel’s Jewish nation-state law
Senior Catholic clerics in Jerusalem called Sunday for Israel to repeal a controversial law giving Jews a “unique” right to ... Middle East -
Pakistan orders 18 international aid groups closed
Pakistan ordered 18 international aid organizations to close, threatening the assistance they provide to some of the country’s most vulnerable, ... World News -
Pope relieves accused Indian bishop of duty: church officials
Pope Francis has relieved from duty an Indian bishop accused by a nun of raping her, local church officials said on Thursday, in a high-profile abuse ... World News -
US cardinals defend themselves over sex abuse cover-up
US cardinals defended themselves Monday against accusations of a Catholic Church cover-up on sex abuse detailed by a conservative bishop who has ... World News -
Pope says church still shamed by failure over ‘repugnant’ Irish abuse
The failure of church authorities to adequately address “repugnant” clerical child abuse crimes in Ireland remains a source of shame for ... World News -
Vatican feels ‘shame and sorrow’ over US grand jury report on abuse
The Vatican, in its first response to a damning report by a US grand jury on sexual abuse of children by priests in Pennsylvania, on Thursday ... World News -
‘They hid it all:’ 300 priests sexually abused over 1,000 children, report finds
A priest raped a 7-year-old girl while he was visiting her in the hospital after she'd had her tonsils removed. Another priest forced a 9-year-old boy ... World News -
Pakistani in viral pope selfie speaks of ‘heartache’ for minorities
A Pakistani Christian whose selfie with the Pope has gone viral has spoken of his “heartache” at the treatment of minorities in Pakistan, ... Features -
Nurse dies after the birth of her eighth child after delaying cancer treatment
Sapna Tracy (43), a strong believer in Catholic pro-life has passed away two years after she delayed cancer treatment in order to give birth to her ... Features -
Egypt’s baptism agreement: Solution or reason for more debate?
During his two-day visit to Egypt, Catholic Pope Francis signed a baptism unification agreement with his Coptic Orthodox counterpart Pope Tawadros II. ... Features -
Why is Pope Francis visiting Egypt?
It has been almost two decades since a Roman Catholic Pope has been on an official visit to Egypt. It was the year 2000 when Pope John Paul II said in ... Features -
Interfaith service Quran reading sparks Scottish Catholic church upset
Scottish Christians have expressed upset after sections of the Quran were read out during a service marking the feast of the Epiphany Variety -
Former priest who served third of abuse sentence gets parole
George Ansel Smith was sentenced in March 2013 after he pleaded guilty to more than three dozen charges News -
Pope praises Armenia’s Christian past, but avoids ‘genocide’
Armenians seemed genuinely honored to welcome a pope who has long championed the Armenian cause World News -
Catholic Church names new custodian of holy land sites
Father Francesco Patton held a number of senior church administrative positions and been professor of social communications at a theological school Middle East -
Pope ally sees Church 'split in two' over female deacons
Pope Francis’s signal that he is open to the possibility of allowing women to enter the Catholic clergy as deacons trigger debate World News -
Catholics should not try to convert Jews, Vatican says
Catholics should not try to convert Jews and should work with them to fight anti-Semitism, the Vatican said on Thursday World News