Europe

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — In the wake of the deadly flooding that killed 216 people in Valencia, Spain, Pope Francis told seminarians and seminary staff from the region to immerse …

PARIS (OSV News) — French Prime Minister François Bayrou wants to split an “end of life” bill to separate the issue of “active assistance in dying” from that of palliative …

BELGRADE, Serbia (OSV News) — Serbian Orthodox Patriarch Porfirije expressed shock and condemnation over violence perpetrated by Serbian law enforcement against demonstrators during anti-government protests that have lasted for nearly …

BOLZANO, Italy (OSV News) — The Diocese of Bolzano-Bressanone in Italy made history Jan. 20 by publishing the country’s first diocesan abuse report, titled “The Courage to Look.” Experts called …

KRAKOW, Poland (OSV News) — “God did not create Auschwitz, God created man,” said Cardinal Grzegorz Rys of Lodz after the Jan. 27 commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the …

 WARSAW, Poland (OSV News) — “I will not send away any Jewish child,” assured Mother Matylda Getter, superior of the Warsaw province of the Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters of …

(OSV News) — Church leaders across Europe marked the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp with calls to remember German Nazi-inflicted sufferings and to counter a new …

ROME (OSV News) — Pope Francis met with José Enrique Escardó, the first member of Sodalitium Christianae Vitae to denounce abuse within the movement 25 years ago. Speaking to several journalists …

(OSV News) — Church and state leaders in Austria have praised the veteran Cardinal Christoph Schönborn on his retirement, at age 80, after three decades as archbishop of Vienna. Austria’s president, …

(OSV News) — Poland’s Catholic primate has accused Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s government of pandering to anti-church feeling, after it unveiled new plans to downgrade religious teaching in the traditionally Catholic …