A Rwandan is facing up to 10 years in prison after he confessed to deliberately setting fire to the city's Gothic cathedral. French media reported the 39-year-old man, named only as Emmanuel A, admitted lighting two ...
Italy's bishops will need to help their communities participate more in parish life and return to taking part in the sacraments in ways that continue to respect evolving measures to contain the spread of the ...
China has announced that Bishop Paul Ma Cunguo of Shuozhou, a Vatican-recognized bishop, has joined the official state-run Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association. It is the third such concession made by Chinese authorities inside a month as ...
French police have opened an arson investigation into a fire at a Gothic cathedral in Nantes. The blaze broke out in three places in the Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul on July 18. Although ...
An international virtual pilgrimage to the sanctuary of Lourdes, France, will "affirm the power of prayer" against COVID-19, said the shrine's vice rector. "Lourdes is all about spiritual and physical healing, and we've received 15,000 prayer ...
Retired Pope Benedict XVI followed the funeral of his brother, Georg Ratzinger, via livestreaming, reported the German Catholic news agency KNA. Bishop Rudolf Voderholzer of Regensburg said Pope Benedict, 93, was connected to the Mass taking ...
Without immediate action from the international community, Christians in northern Iraq could be endangered with extinction, warns a new report from the pontifical charity Aid to the Church in Need. The report, "Life after ISIS: New ...
Eight months after Amazonian church leaders met in Rome to discuss pastoral challenges, a new Ecclesial Conference of the Amazon was founded June 29 to carry on the synod's work. The new conference includes representing the ...
Ignatius Press will be publishing Australian Cardinal George Pell's prison journal and it is also appealing for donations it will give the cardinal for outstanding legal expenses incurred in defending himself against allegations of the ...
Cardinal Angelo De Donatis, the papal vicar of Rome who spent 10 days in a hospital with COVID-19, will lead a diocesan pilgrimage to Lourdes, France, in August. The trip, Aug. 24-27, is scheduled to mark ...
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