Mexican Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragán, a longtime president of the former Pontifical Council for Health Care Ministry, died in Rome April 20 at the age of 89.
In a telegram sent to Bishop Javier Navarro Rodríguez of Zamora, Pope Francis expressed his condolences
The synodal process bridged an international border March 27 when the bishops of the Diocese of Brownsville, Texas, crossed the Rio Grande into Mexico to celebrate Sunday Mass with the bishop of Matamoros.
An afternoon of synod workshops and discussions followed.
As late morning
A little more than a month after being chosen chairman-elect of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' migration committee, Bishop Mark J. Seitz wasted no time in heading across an international bridge Dec. 20 from his Diocese of El Paso, Texas, to
Thousands of protesters took to the streets across Mexico in marches promoted as "pro-woman and pro-life" and repudiating a recent Supreme Court decision decriminalizing abortion.
Marches in at least 89 cities across the country were "put together on short notice," said Auxiliary Bishop
Pope Francis called on Mexicans to focus on the present and look to the future rather than dwelling on the past as the country celebrates the bicentennial of its independence.
In a letter to Archbishop Rogelio Cabrera López of Monterrey, president of the
The Mexican Supreme Court has invalidated a clause in a state constitution that provided protection of life "from the moment in which an individual is conceived ... until their death," arguing that no state government could determine when life begins; only the
Lawmakers in the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz approved a bill decriminalizing abortion during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. It was the second such decriminalization measure approved in Mexico in barely two weeks.
The Veracruz state legislature overwhelmingly approved the legislation July
During a trip to Mexico, the Vatican secretary of state called on Mexicans to overcome divisions and the violence afflicting the country -- something he said he prayed for at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
Cardinal Pietro Parolin also said he
MEXICO CITY (CNS) — Mexican Church officials previously “covered up” cases of clerical sexual abuse, a situation the Vatican ambassador to Mexico said has changed as Catholic leaders increasingly follow a zero-tolerance policy promoted by Pope Francis. Archbishop Franco Coppola, apostolic nuncio,
Archbishop Franco Coppola, papal ambassador to Mexico, recently traveled to a town besieged by warring drug cartels to reiterate the church's commitment to serving populations suffering violence.
The ambassador, or nuncio, also wanted to raise awareness of the situation in Aguililla, a town