The unprecedented storms devastating vast areas in Rio Grande do Sul state in southern Brazil since the end of April have already displaced more than half a million people, which has led to the formation of many solidarity networks.
The young wife of the commander of the Ukrainian battalion still holed up in a steel plant in Mariupol had what she described as a "heart raising" encounter with Pope Francis.
Kateryna Prokopenko, wife of Azov Regiment commander Denys Prokopenko, and Yulya Fedosiuk,
Good Shepherd Sister María Agustina Rivas Lopez, who was murdered by terrorists during Peru's political violence, was beatified May 7 during a liturgy in the same plaza where she was shot to death in 1990.
The altar, adorned with local tropical plants and
Australian bishops elected Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe as the new president of the conference and re-elected Sydney Archbishop Anthony Fisher vice president.
Their two-year terms will begin July 13, 2022, after the Second General Assembly of the Fifth Plenary Council of Australia. Archbishop
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari told West African bishops he appreciated Pope Francis' encyclical "Fratelli Tutti" for proposing some of the boldest and most radical ideas on securing human unity, peace and security.
"Peace cannot reign in our region if it does not first
New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan said he was surprised and inspired by Ukrainians he met when he made a brief visit to Lviv, Ukraine.
"I thought I would come to Ukraine and see great depression," he told the Religious Information Service of
Bishop Stephan Ackermann of Trier has suspended the proceedings for the sainthood cause of Father Joseph Kentenich, founder of the international Schonstatt movement.
The German Catholic news agency KNA reported Bishop Ackermann made the decision in consultation with the Vatican because of allegations
The Vatican believes Cologne Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki and his vicar general, Msgr. Markus Hofmann, did not violate canon law in their funding of investigations and hiring of communications consultants, reported the German Catholic news agency KNA.
Cardinal Marc Ouellet, prefect of the
Kazakhstan's president conveyed good wishes to the participants of the first meeting of the newly created Catholic Bishops' Conference of Central Asia in the capital of Nur-Sultan.
The press service of the Kazakh Senate reported that President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev sent the Senate chairman,
Superiors of women's religious orders from around the world will gather in Rome or online to look at their areas of vulnerability and find ways to "embrace" them so that together they are stronger and can be signs of hope for other
Dealing with dementia should be an integral part of the training and further education of pastoral ministers, said Bishop Franz-Josef Bode, deputy president of the German bishops' conference.
More and more people suffering from dementia needed support just as much as their relatives,