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News/International

Displaced Christians attend a church service in Kaya, Burkina Faso.

Four Catholics die in latest Burkina Faso church attack

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OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso -- Suspected Muslim extremists attacked another Catholic church in Burkina Faso, killing four people and raising the death toll among Christians to 20 in wave of violence in the West Africa nation.

Pope Francis.

Pope Francis says Argentine bishop will go to trial for sexual misconduct

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VATICAN CITY (CNA) -- Pope Francis has said a preliminary investigation against Bishop Gustavo Oscar Zanchetta has concluded and will now proceed to trial.

The U.S. Supreme Court building is seen in Washington March 26, 2019.

Supreme Court allows fetal burials, rejects abortion limits in Indiana

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WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Supreme Court weighed in on two different aspects of Indiana abortion laws May 28.

Msgr. Anthony J. Figueiredo, who was former Cardinal Theodore E. McCarricks' secretary for nine months in 1994-95, is pictured in a March 11, 2017, photo.

Former secretary says prominent Church officials knew McCarrick's ministry was restricted

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VATICAN CITY -- Pope Benedict XVI had imposed restrictions on the public ministry of former Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick in 2008, but they were not formal sanctions and were not followed strictly, even during the papacy of Pope Benedict himself, McCarrick's former secretary said.

An Indian court has asked police to investigate allegations of breach of trust involving Cardinal George Alencherry of India, major archbishop of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church. Cardinal Alencherry is pictured in a 2012 photo.

Financial controversy involving Indian cardinal flares anew

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COCHIN, India -- A financial controversy involving an Indian cardinal has taken another turn after his archdiocese demanded a federal investigation into allegedly fake documents it said are aimed at defaming him.

Then-Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, retired archbishop of Washington, arrives in procession for a Mass of thanksgiving for Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl of Washington in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Nov. 22, 2010.

Pope Francis breaks silence on Viganò claims

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VATICAN CITY -- After waiting nine months, Pope Francis has denied accusations that he was aware of allegations of sex abuse involving former American Cardinal Theodore McCarrick and failed to take action.

Pope Francis delivers his blessing during the opening Mass of the general Assembly of Caritas Internationalis in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican May 23, 2019.

Pope Francis: Guilty handouts, soulless bureaucratic aid are fake charity

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VATICAN CITY -- Charity should be given freely and lived humbly with the poor, never letting it become hypocrisy, a slick business or a way to soothe a troubled conscience, Pope Francis said.

Arch in Golgotha chapel, Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem.

Catholic bishops lament setbacks for Holy Land peace, but call for a better path

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JERUSALEM (CNA) -- Peace, mutual equality, and respect must be the foundation of progress in Israeli-Palestinian relations, despite continued setbacks, the Assembly of Catholic Ordinaries of the Holy Land said this week.

Bishop Simone Giusti of Livorno, Italy, speaks to a fellow bishop at the opening of the annual spring meeting of the Italian bishops' conference at the Vatican May 20, 2019. Members of the Italian bishops' conference have approved updated guidelines for protecting children and vulnerable adults and for handling abuse allegations.

Italian bishops: 'moral obligation' to report abuse to police

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VATICAN CITY -- Italian bishops have recognized their "moral obligation" to report allegations of clerical sexual abuse to the police, said the head of the Italian bishops' child protection committee.

Pope Francis will visit the region’s largest Marian shrine in Romania June 1, where an annual Pentecost Saturday pilgrimage draws thousands, mainly ethnic Hungarians, to Csíksomlyo (Hungarian) or Sumuleu Ciuc (Romanian) as seen in this 2018 photo.

Pope Francis' visit puts light on ethnic Hungarians

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When Pope Francis visits Romania May 31-June 1, he will helicopter to Sumuleu Ciuc, site of the country’s only major Marian shrine and an important place of pilgrimage for Hungarian Catholics.

Cardinal Konrad Krajewski gives candy to children as he visits the Hope and Peace Center for refugees on the Greek island of Lesbos.

Cardinal ‘Fix It’

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During his visit to a centre offering respite and food to refugees on the Greek island of Lesbos this month, Cardinal Konrad Krajewski followed a sign that said, “Broken? Fix it here.”

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