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News/International

Zlatko Dalic was appointed as Croatia's head football coach Oct. 2017.

Croatia's head football coach clings to rosary on the way to World Cup championship game

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ZAGREB, Croatia, – On Sunday, Croatia’s soccer team will play France in the championship game of the 2018 World Cup, after running victoriously through a string of soccer powerhouses in the tournament.
Ordained a priest in June 2006 by H. E. Jorge Cardinal Medina Estévez, Fr. Andrzej Komorowski ministered in various apostolates of the Fraternity in Poland, Belgium and the Netherlands. He is elected as FSSP Superior General for the next six years.

Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter elects new superior general

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LINCOLN, Neb. – The general chapter of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter, a society of apostolic life which celebrates the extraordinary form of the Roman rite, on Monday elected Fr. Andrzej Komorowski as its next superior general.
Pope Francis uses holy water to bless the casket of French Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran during his funeral Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican July 12. Cardinal Tauran, who announced the election of Pope Francis, had a long career as a Vatican diplomat and later worked on interreligious dialogue. He died July 5 at the age of 75 in Hartford, Conn.

Pope Francis attends funeral of cardinal who announced to world his election

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VATICAN – Pope Francis attended the funeral Mass and presided over the final commendation of Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, the French cardinal who led the Vatican's outreach to other religions and who had announced to the world his election as pope five years ago.
Seminarians at the Society of St. Pius X seminary in Econe, Switzerland, in this May 10, 2012, file photo. The traditionalist society is not in full communion with the Catholic Church.

Society of St. Pius X elects new superior general

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VATICAN – The traditionalist Society of St. Pius X elected 47-year-old Father Davide Pagliarani, an Italian member of the society, as its superior general.
Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, listens to immigrants recently released from U.S. custody July 1 at a Catholic Charities-run respite center in McAllen, Texas. A delegation of U.S. bishops traveled to the Diocese of Brownsville, Texas, to learn more about the detention of immigrants, mostly Central Americans, at the U.S.-Mexico border.

U.S. bishops sought to share journey with migrants, not join political fray

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MCALLEN, Texas – The journey for many of the new migrants entering the U.S. near the border town of McAllen involves a mix of hardship and blessings.
The deconsecrated Cathedral of the Transfiguration in Markham, Ont., north of Toronto, has reopened its doors and now welcomes members of the Jesus the King Melkite Catholic community.

Detailed guidelines needed for use of deconsecrated churches, cardinal says

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VATICAN – The Vatican is helping organize an international conference meant to help dioceses work with their local communities in finding appropriate uses for decommissioned churches.
Brett Kavanaugh, a Catholic, who is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, smiles July 9 at the White House in Washington after President Donald Trump named him his Supreme Court nominee.

Trump picks Judge Brett Kavanaugh as Supreme Court nominee

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WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump announced July 9 that his nominee for the Supreme Court is Judge Brett Kavanaugh, a federal appeals court judge in Washington and a Catholic who once clerked for retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, right, greets Archbishop Romulo Valles of Davao, president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines, before a meeting inside the presidential palace in Manila.

Duterte says he'll curb tirades, then tells bishops not to criticize him

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MANILA, Philippines -- Outspoken Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is to curb his tirades against the Catholic Church after agreeing to a moratorium on statements deriding priests and bishops.

Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes Solorzano of Managua, Nicaragua, and Auxiliary Bishop Silvio Baez Ortega, arrive as anti-government protests continue July 9 in Diriamba. Later that day the two prelates were among Nicaraguan bishops and clergy attacked by armed groups aligned with the government Diriamba.

Bishops, journalists attacked at church in Nicaragua

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COPAN, Honduras -- Nicaraguan bishops and clergy were attacked by armed groups aligned with the government July 9 as violence in the Central American country escalated and affected the Catholic Church, which has provided humanitarian assistance in its parishes and has tried to diffuse a worsening political crisis through dialogue.

People walk past makeshift homes in early May at a shantytown outside Manila, Philippines.

Philippine bishops announce days of prayer, fasting, penance for peace

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MANILA, Philippines -- Catholic bishops in the Philippines, concerned about an increase in violence and police reaction to crime, announced a day of prayer and penance July 16 and three days of fasting, prayer and penance, July 17-19.

Pope Francis and Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria, patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church, right, release doves as they stand with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople outside the Basilica of St. Nicholas in Bari, Italy, July 7. The Pope was meeting with Christian leaders for an ecumenical day of prayer for peace in the Middle East.

Learn from the past to bring peaceful future to Middle East, pope says

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VATICAN CITY -- As war continues to threaten the land of Jesus' birth and to undermine the existence of Christian communities there, the international community must learn from the errors of the past and do more to bring lasting peace to the Middle East, Pope Francis said.

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