Tag: international
Australian Church mourns Cardinal Pell despite protests
Cardinal Pell, who rose from humble beginnings in regional Australia, died in Rome in January aged 81
Myanmar junta looks to extend rule as nation counts losses in...
Long-suffering citizens face extended emergency rule or a rigged election–or both, say analysts
Voices from Myanmar’s coup, two years on
From striking civil servants to rebels holed up in the dense jungle, five people speak of how their lives have been upended by the coup
Pope Francis accepts retirement of Cardinal Ouellet, head of Dicastery for...
Cardinal Ouellet, 78, who has strongly denied the claims against him, is retiring as head of the Vatican's dicastery, or department, for bishops, due to his age
China’s Sichuan to scrap three-child limit as birth rates drop
China's population shrank last year for the first time in more than six decades, official data released this month showed
Synod organizers tell Continental Assemblies not to ‘impose an agenda’ on...
The cardinals said the Synod of Bishops is not meant “to address all the issues being debated in the Church”
Over 60 dead, mostly police, in Pakistan mosque blast
The attack happened during afternoon worship in the provincial capital of Peshawar, close to former tribal areas along the Afghan border
Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas unveiled at 700th anniversary of his...
Aquinas was a Dominican friar and priest and is considered one of the Church’s greatest teachers, philosophers, and theologians
Indonesian leprosy survivor crafts new limbs for shunned villagers
Those who have recovered from the disease say they just want to be treated the same as everyone else
Pope Francis decries culture that ‘throws away’ unborn children, elderly, poor
Speaking from the window of the Apostolic Palace, the pope noted that the “throwaway culture” is predominant in more affluent societies