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News/International

In this 2015 file photo, faithful near Kampala, Uganda, pray at the Uganda Martyrs Shrine, Namugongo.

Pilgrims walk hundreds of miles to join Uganda martyrs day Mass

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NAMUGONGO, Uganda – John Ole, 67, has a smile on his face, knowing he just completed a 300-mile trek on foot with hundreds of Catholic pilgrims to Namugongo from Uganda's northeast district of Arua to celebrate Uganda martyrs day.
Cardinal Miguel Obando Bravo, retired archbishop of Managua, Nicaragua, died June 3 at the age of 92. He is pictured in a 2005 photo at the Vatican.

Cardinal Obando Bravo, retired archbishop of Managua, dies at 92

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VATICAN – Once honoured by his native Nicaragua as a "father of peace and reconciliation," Cardinal Miguel Obando Bravo, retired archbishop of Managua, died June 3 at the age of 92.
Pope Francis greets Simona Agnes, who presides over the Biagio Agnes Prize, which honors professional journalism. He praised a delegation for promoting reporting that puts the truth “before personal interests or the interests of corporations.”

Be responsible, avoid ideological warfare, Pope says to journalists

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VATICAN – Journalists must meticulously uphold their craft of responsible reporting and not be tempted into partisan or ideological warfare, Pope Francis said.
Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki of Cologne, Germany, and Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich and Freising distribute Communion during Cardinal Woelki's installation Mass at the cathedral in Cologne Sept. 20, 2014.

Pope Francis rejects German proposal for inter-communion

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VATICAN – One month after Vatican and German delegates met in Rome to discuss a proposal put forward by German bishops to allow Protestant spouses in inter-denominational marriages to receive the Eucharist in certain circumstances, Pope Francis has rejected it.
Baker Jack Phillips decorates a cake in his Masterpiece Cakeshop Sept. 21, 2017, in Lakewood, Colorado.

Supreme Court rules in favour of baker in same-sex wedding cake case

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WASHINGTON – In a 7-2 decision June 4, the Supreme Court sided with a Colorado baker in a case that put anti-discrimination laws up against freedom of speech and freedom of religious expression.
Pope Francis is presented with an American football helmet during a meeting with members of American Pro Football Hall of Fame June 2017 at the Vatican.

Sports on Sundays OK, except when used to skip Mass, says Vatican

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VATICAN – A new Vatican document cautions against the dangers of highly competitive children's sports, political and economic pressures on athletes to win '"at all costs" and the unsportsmanlike or violent behavior of fans.
G.K. Chesterton at work.

G.K. Chesterton's sainthood cause may soon be opened

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NORTHAMPTON, England – As an investigation into the life of Catholic apologist G.K. Chesterton nears a close, admirers of the English writer voiced hope that his sainthood cause could soon be opened.
Volcanic gases rise from the Kilauea lava flow that crossed Pohoiki Road near Pahoa, Hawaii, May 28.

Displaced residents ask for prayers after lava forces Hawaiians out of homes

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HONOLULU – Paul and Rose Utes, members of Sacred Heart Parish in Pahoa, had to leave their home when lava from the Kilauea eruptions moved into their section of the Leilani Estates subdivision in Puna on the Big Island.

Pope Francis arrives in procession to celebrate Mass in Chile Jan 17. The Pope said it has been a "time of listening and discernment" for the church to get to the root of the sexual abuse crisis in the Chilean church

Pope 'ashamed' by church's failure to listen to abuse survivors

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VATICAN – In a letter to Catholics in Chile, Pope Francis expressed shame for the church's failure to listen and defend survivors of sexual abuse at the hands of the clergy.
Pilgrims pray in front of a statue of Mary in 2011 on Apparition Hill in Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina. The Pope appointed Archbishop Henryk Hoser, the retired archbishop of Warsaw-Praga, Poland, to be apostolic visitor to Medjugorje.

Pope names apostolic visitor to Medjugorje

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VATICAN – Pope Francis has named as apostolic visitor to Medjugorje the Polish archbishop he had initially sent to the town as his personal envoy to study the pastoral needs of the townspeople and of the thousands of pilgrims who flock to the site of the alleged Marian apparitions.
Bishop Juan Barros of Osorno, Chile, arrives in procession for Pope Francis' celebration of Mass near Temuco, Chile, Jan. 17. The Chilean bishop is accused by victims of witnessing and covering up sexual abuse of minors.

Vatican team investigating abuse cover-ups to return to Chile

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VATICAN – To promote healing after reports of sexual abuse and cover-ups, Pope Francis will send Archbishop Charles Scicluna of Malta and Father Jordi Bertomeu Farnos back to Chile.
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