“I urge the faithful to not respond to these events with fear, avoiding places of worship because they are worried about further attacks,” Archbishop Anthony Fisher said.
In a first statement, New South Wales police urged the community to avoid the area, saying several people were stabbed, suffering “non-life threatening injuries.”
“Pope Francis was deeply saddened to learn of the violent attack in Sydney, and he sends the assurance of his spiritual closeness to all affected,” the message said.
The Düsseldorf public prosecutor’s office revealed that the suspects, between 15 and 16 years old, were apprehended over the Easter weekend.
While speculation is again running rife on social media about Archbishop Georg Gänswein’s next role, neither he nor the Vatican have confirmed a nuncio posting.
“I ask for forgiveness from the victims and deeply regret everything I have done,” the priest said.
Germany legalized the recreational use of cannabis on Monday, April 1, but the debate over the contentious legislation is far from over.
A YouTuber disillusioned with his experience in an Austrian evangelical Protestant environment has found a spiritual family and home in the Catholic Church.
The Catholic Church in Kerala has been leading the charge in urging the government to take decisive action to protect human lives.
The Vatican and the German bishops have announced they will work together to resolve the controversial German Synodal Way.
The apostolic nunciature to Belgium said in a statement on Thursday that “serious new elements” had come to light regarding Vangheluwe.
A delegation of German bishops is expected in Rome this Friday for talks with the Vatican about the German Synodal Way.
“The publication of a Bible presented and packaged as ‘The Catholic Canon’ by the Norwegian Bible Society is a major ecumenical event,” Bishop Erik Varden said.
For the first time in Norway’s history, the Norwegian Bible Society has announced the publication of a Catholic edition of the Bible.
The inquiry was launched after a police investigation concluded without charges.
Proposed changes to the Irish Constitution would abolish “all reference to motherhood,” Ireland’s bishops argue.
Ahead of a high-stakes gathering of the German bishops next Monday, a lay group warned the prelates of moving “further away from the people of God.”
A humanitarian aid group has warned of a rise in violence against the persecuted Christian minority amid the bloody civil war in Myanmar.
“Especially in Jerusalem, orthodox activists consider themselves exemplary Jews when they spit on or even beat Christians or Muslims,” Michael Wolffsohn wrote.
The plan to write access to abortion into France’s constitution was announced by President Emmanuel Macron in October 2023.