Catholic Events

VATICAN CITY (CathNews) — In the wake of Tuesday's meeting with representatives of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, the Vatican official responsible for a recent crackdown said he...

JAKARTA (Zenit) — Construction of the first minor seminary planned for Pangkalpinang diocese in the capital of Bangka-Belitung province has been halted. Local leaders say that pressure from the...

VATICAN CITY (Zenit) — The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has published a notification about a book, Just Love. A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics by Sister...

VATICAN CITY (Zenit) — The Vatican is trying to protect the Pope's right to privacy after more Holy See documents and private correspondence between the Pope and his collaborators...

VATICAN CITY (LSN) — As the Vatican geared up for the World Meeting of Families in Milan, Cardinal Angelo Scola, the archbishop of Milan, told media at a Vatican...

by CINDY WOODEN ROME (CNS) — The Catholic Church's relationship to Judaism as taught by the Second Vatican Council and the interpretations and developments of that teaching by subsequent popes,...

WASHINGTON (LSN) — When Nancy Keenan, the head of America’s oldest abortion lobby, told the Washington Post she was stepping down, she cited a grim fact that she had...

by MARIA DALGARNO OTTAWA, Ontario (Zenit) — The 15th annual March for Life in Ottawa drew close to 20,000 to Parliament Hill on May 10, as marchers called for an...

ROME (Zenit) — The president of the Pontifical Council for Families is hoping that the world meeting in Milan at the end of the month will help families to...

WASHINGTON, D.C., (Zenit) — Following Vatican approval, the “Rite for the Blessing of a Child in the Womb” is now available for use by dioceses in the United States. The...

DUBLIN (Zenit) — On May 1 the BBC series This World broadcast a programme titled The Shame of the Catholic Church on its Northern Ireland network. It accused Cardinal...

TOKYO (CWN) – Writing in the Wilson Quarterly Nicholas Eberstadt makes an insightful and thoroughly chilling analysis of social trends in Japan, where fertility rates have plummeted for years...

by CHRISTINE DHANAGOM DENVER, Colorado (LifeSiteNews) — Prayerbooks, rosaries, and pro-life pamphlets are a common sight outside Planned Parenthood’s massive facility in downtown Denver, but this year local organisers of...

by JOHN-HENRY WESTEN WASHINGTON(LifeSiteNews) — The Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) has launched a five-year reform of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), the association...

LIMA, Peru (CWN) — The Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP) has announced that it did not comply with a Vatican deadline to bring its governing statutes into conformity...

ST LOUIS, Missouri (CWN) — Cardinal Raymond Burke has said that employers who provide contraceptive coverage for their workers are guilty of both formal and material cooperation in contraception. The...

ROME (CathNews) — An Italian man whose company manufactured electronic gates has left assets worth 1.7 billion euros ($2.19 billion) to the Catholic Church, said an AFP report in...

RADNOR, Pennsylvania (CathNews) — In an unusual study whose main results were released at a Catholic University of America conference at the end of March, Villanova University in Philadelphia...

MELBOURNE (CathNews) — The Archbishop of Melbourne, Denis Hart, and five other bishops will send out 80,000 letters this weekend asking parishioners to take a stand against proposed new...

by FRANCIS X. ROCCA ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT TO MEXICO (CNS) — En route to Latin America for his second papal visit to the region, Pope Benedict XVI called for...

BOSTON (CWN) — Amid parish closures and dramatic cuts in the number of chancery staff, the number of lay employees of the archdiocese of Boston who earned more than...

by CALLUM TOWNSEND WELLINGTON — Youth ministry in the Wellington archdiocese has received a shake-up, with a renewed focus on mentoring and training to be implemented from early next year. A...

There are 22 million lapsed Catholics in the United States of America. After practising Catholics and Baptists, they constitute the third largest “denomination”. One in every three US...

LONDON (CathNews) — The British Education Secretary, Michael Gove, has defended the right of Catholic schools to promote Church teaching on homosexuality following a complaint from the country's Trade...

by PETER GRACE The new Roman Missal was delivered to dioceses in mid-February. Some parishes have already received their copies. According to the Liturgy Centre in Auckland diocese, the new Roman...

by MICHAEL OTTO AUCKLAND — Recruiting will start this month for a new working committee on peace and international justice issues, which will be part of Auckland diocese’s Justice and...

ROME (Zenit) — Catholic chaplains have been closely involved in rescue and support efforts as 21 passengers from the Costa Concordia cruise ship remain unaccounted for. The the giant vessel...

LONDON (BWNS) — Members of Parliament here have sharply criticised Iran for its human rights violations, focusing especially on the "steep rise" in the persecution of religious minorities. In a...

KASHMIR, India (VR) — Two Christian missionaries in Kashmir have been charged with proselytism by an Islamic court. Although the Court has no jurisdiction under the Indian constitution, it has...

WASHINGTON, D.C., (Zenit) — Leaders of some of the largest religious communities in the United States have joined together in an open letter to all Americans to voice their...