Articles by AC Wimmer
Iraqi archbishop calls for courageous dialogue among religions, end to violent persecution
Nov 3, 2022 / 08:00 amAddressing the Group of Twenty’s first-ever forum on religion on Nov. 2, Archbishop Bashar Warda drove home the need for “forgiveness and a renunciation of violence.”
Pope Francis accepts resignation of German archbishop
Nov 1, 2022 / 07:52 amArchbishop Schick said the pope had asked him to remain in office. “After presenting my reasons again, he then granted my request," the German bishop wrote in a statement.
Pope Francis calls on Catholics to become peacemakers
Nov 1, 2022 / 05:26 amPope Francis on Tuesday called on Catholics to “disarm their hearts” and become peacemakers.
Why Pope Francis’ November prayer intention is for children who suffer
Oct 31, 2022 / 09:01 am“There are still millions of boys and girls who suffer and live in conditions very similar to slavery,” the pontiff said in a video appeal issued Monday.
Pope Francis meets French President Emmanuel Macron
Oct 24, 2022 / 07:04 amPope Francis received French President Emmanuel Macron at the Vatican on Monday.
Archbishop Chaput: ‘Biden is not in communion with the Catholic faith’
Oct 23, 2022 / 05:32 amArchbishop Charles Chaput said on Saturday that Joe Biden “is not in communion with the Catholic faith” and that “any priest who now provides Communion to the president participates in his hypocrisy.”
Benedict XVI reflects on Vatican II in new letter
Oct 21, 2022 / 07:05 amThe letter provides fresh observations from one of the few remaining theologians to have personally participated in Vatican II, which opened 60 years ago this month.
English town forbids making sign of the cross, using holy water near abortion center
Oct 18, 2022 / 10:21 amThe Council of Bournemouth, Christchurch, and Poole in southern England has drawn red lines around an abortion provider and designated the area a “safe zone.”
Pope Francis calls on entrepreneurs to be ‘prophets’
Oct 17, 2022 / 07:15 amPope Francis has called on entrepreneurs to be “prophets” and transform the economy to ethical principles.
Pope Francis tells Cistercians: ‘The main thing is not to let the evil one steal our hope!’
Oct 17, 2022 / 06:21 amPope Francis told Cistercians on Monday to embrace “the greater poverty of spirit and goods in order to be more available to the Lord.”
Amid claim of coming ‘Asian millennium,’ Pope Francis tells bishops to discern Holy Spirit
Oct 12, 2022 / 09:00 amPope Francis on Wednesday called on Asia’s Catholic bishops, currently gathered in Thailand, to discern what the Holy Spirit is telling them.
Vatican II at 60: A timeline of key moments
Oct 11, 2022 / 12:30 pmOct. 11 marks the 60th anniversary of a monumental event in the history of the Catholic Church: the gathering in Rome of bishops from around the world for the start of the Second Vatican Council.
Pope Francis expresses condolences to victims of explosion in Ireland
Oct 10, 2022 / 08:42 amPope Francis has assured his “spiritual closeness” to those affected by an Oct. 7 gas station explosion in northwest Ireland.
Vatican’s Synod on Synodality organizers say synod is ‘fruit’ of Second Vatican Council
Oct 10, 2022 / 05:20 amIn a message marking the 60th anniversary of Vatican II’s opening, the general secretariat of the Synod on Synodality called the event “one of its most precious legacies.”
Swiss bishop resigns at age 59 due to ‘inner fatigue’
Oct 10, 2022 / 04:41 am“I tell you this with an open heart: I can no longer imagine being in the position I have tried to hold until now.”
Christians excluded from Australian sports? Bishops raise alarm after exec resigns
Oct 7, 2022 / 10:14 amOne day after being appointed chief executive of an Australian rules football club, Andrew Thorburn stepped down from the role following a public backlash.
French Jesuit and American legal scholar win 2022 Ratzinger Prize
Oct 7, 2022 / 03:01 amA French Jesuit and an American legal scholar were named the recipients of this year’s Ratzinger prize on Friday.
Pope Francis mourns 23 children and several adults killed in Thailand day care attack
Oct 7, 2022 / 02:31 amPope Francis has expressed deep sorrow at the news of a deadly rampage at a day care center in Thailand that left more than 30 people dead — 23 of them children.
Public spat between German bishop, Swiss cardinal leads to private meeting in Rome
Oct 5, 2022 / 06:46 amFollowing demands for an apology and a threat he would “file an official complaint with the Holy Father,” the German Bishops’ Conference president met with a Vatican cardinal in Rome this week.
Belgium violated right to life in euthanasia case, European Court of Human Rights rules
Oct 4, 2022 / 08:53 amThe European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday ruled that Belgium failed to conduct a proper investigation into the circumstances of the 2012 euthanasia of Godelieva de Troyer on the grounds of “untreatable depression.”