Archive for July 2, 2018

Pope Francis with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I in Greece in April 2016. The two will meet again in Bari, Italy, July 7, 2018. ?w=200&h=150

By Hannah Brockhaus

Bari archbishop says papal visit will focus on ecumenism

Pope Francis’ visit to Bari this Saturday to pray for peace in the Middle East will have a strong ecumenical... Read more

St. Mary's Cathedral in Sydney. ?w=200&h=150

Australia's national compensation plan for child sex abuse victims begins

On Sunday Australia launched a program to compensate the victims of institutional child sex abuse.  Read more

Blessing Okoedion (C) accepts a Trafficking in Persons Hero award from US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and presidential advisor Ivanka Trump. ?w=200&h=150

Trafficking victims' advocate honored by US State Department

A young Nigerian woman who escaped from forced prostitution in Italy was honored by the U.S. State Department last week... Read more

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador was elected president of Mexico on July 1. ?w=200&h=150

Mexican bishops urge collaboration after election of Lopez Obrador

The bishops of Mexico congratulated Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador on his election as the next president of the country, stressing... Read more

Pro-life prayer outside an abortion clinic. ?w=200&h=150

By Christine Rousselle

UK court upholds London abortion clinic buffer zone

The High Court of England and Wales ruled Monday that a buffer zone around an abortion facility in the London... Read more

Families meet through the border fence. ?w=200&h=150

By Kevin J. Jones

Amid policy debate, US bishops hear from migrants at the border

Seeking to hear the stories of migrants and how they have been affected by U.S. detention policy, a delegation of... Read more

Cardinal Luis Francisco Ladaria. ?w=200&h=150

By Elise Harris

Will the Amazon synod open the door to women deacons?

While a veteran Vatican journalist has suggested that the 2019 Synod of Bishops from the Amazonian basin might open the... Read more

Pope Francis and Archbishop Ivan Jurkovic at Vatican City, Nov. 13, 2015. ?w=200&h=150

By Andrea Gagliarducci

Pope Francis might again visit Geneva, nuncio says

Pope Francis characterized his June 21st day-trip to Geneva as an “ecumenical pilgrimage,” not a political trip, and for this... Read more

Archbishop Jose Gomez celebrates Mass on the new feast of Mary, our Mother of the Church, in May 2018. ?w=200&h=150

By Christine Rousselle

Archbishop Gomez: Hearing immigrants' stories should make us grateful

During a visit to the United States’ southern border, Archbishop Jose Gomez of Los Angeles called for Catholics to lobby... Read more

Bishop Michael Yeung Ming-cheung of Hong Kong. ?w=200&h=150

By Andrea Gagliarducci

Catholics are called to speak out against injustices, Hong Kong bishop says

The Catholic Church in Hong Kong is called to speak out in case of injustices, but it does not compete... Read more

US bishops and Sister Norma Pimentel at the Catholic Charities Immigrant Respite Center in McAllen Texas, July 1, 2018. ?w=200&h=150

By JD Flynn

Keep immigrant families together, bishops plead at border

Immigration reform requires seeing the faces of immigrants, and hearing their stories, according to six U.S. bishops who have completed... Read more

Archbishop Philip Wilson. CNA file photo?w=200&h=150

Australian archbishop sentenced to year's detention for not reporting sexual abuse

The Archbishop of Adelaide was sentenced Tuesday to a 12-month sentence after being convicted in May of failing to report... Read more

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Ana Estrada, 47, suffered from polymyositis, an incurable disease that left her confined to a wheelchair. Since 2019, she had been been petitioning Peruvian courts to recognize a right to euthanasia.

For first time, incurably ill patient undergoes euthanasia in Peru

Argentine pro-life Dr. Leandro Rodríguez Lastra.

Argentine doctor completes prison sentence for preventing a chemical abortion in process

Pope Francis greets an elderly couple at a general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican.

Pope Francis to meet with thousands of grandparents and their grandchildren at the Vatican

Bishop Tesfasellassie Medhin of the Catholic Eparchy of Adigrat in Ethiopia, which covers the Tigray region.

‘I’m a witness to unspeakable suffering’: Ethiopia bishop wants peace pact implemented

Left to right: Dr. John Bruchalski, a former abortionist and IVF provider, Emma Waters, a senior research associate at the Heritage Foundation, Andrew Kubick, a bioethicist at the National Catholic Bioethics Center and the Religious Freedom Institute, and Sister Deirdre Byrne, superior of the D.C. Little Workers of the Sacred Hearts, discuss the "eugenic" dangers of in vitro fertilization at a panel event at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., April 18, 2024.

Experts and former abortionist warn about ‘eugenic’ IVF industry

Reporter Catherine Hadro speaks with Sister Mary Gianna of the Disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ and Frank DeAngelis on “EWTN News In Depth” on April 19, 2024. Sister Mary Gianna, also known as Jenica Thornby, was a sophomore at Columbine High School and DeAngelis was principal on April 20, 1999, when two gunmen killed 12 students and one teacher before turning their guns on themselves.

Columbine High School massacre, 25 years later: ‘God, why did you allow me to survive?’

Pro-lifers participate in the Illinois March for Life in Springfield, April 17, 2024.

Thousands of pro-lifers attend ‘joy-filled’ Illinois March for Life

Participants in Italy's pro-life demonstration in Rome on May 21, 2022.

Italy set to pass amendment allowing pro-life groups into family planning clinics 

The Reverend Mother Superior Teresa Agnes Gerlach of the Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity in Arlington, Texas.

Nuns who feuded with Texas bishop say they will defy Vatican order on monastery’s governance

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Indian bishops condemn Hindu group’s attack on Catholic school and priest

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