A modern-day pilgrim on a walking tour of France’s cathedrals told journalists on Friday his Catholic faith gave him the strength to fight a man who stabbed four children in a park in Annecy. Dubbed “the backpack hero” – “le héros au
Spain’s Catholic bishops’ conference says it has found evidence of 728 sexual abusers within the church since 1945, through the testimony of 927 victims, in its first public report on the issue. The church said 83% of the victims and 99% of
A Roman Catholic priest has been killed in the western Mexican state of Michoacan, the ninth killed during the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. The church’s Catholic Multimedia Center identified the priest as Rev. Javier García Villafaña, who had been
The Catholic Church in Asia recently turned to artificial intelligence to create a document for use by the wider Church in order that its members might more closely “walk together.” The Vatican’s official media outlet, Vatican News, published a report revealing that
Roman Catholic church leaders in Ontario have been mostly silent since a Canadian high school junior was suspended from his Catholic high school for opposing transgender ideology. Josh Alexander, 17, filed a human rights complaint with the Ontario Human Rights Commission earlier
Hong Kong’s Roman Catholic bishop arrived in Beijing on Monday, marking the first visit to the Chinese capital by the city’s bishop in nearly three decades, despite signs of Sino-Vatican strains. The five-day trip by Bishop Stephen Chow began about two weeks
A Roman Catholic priest who sued a London National Health Service Trust for harassment, religious discrimination and victimization received £10,000 – or roughly $12,000 – in a settlement. Before Rev. Patrick Pullicino’s case could head to the Croydon Employment Tribunal in July,
Pope Francis said the Catholic Church’s thousand-year-old practice of celibacy could be changed. In a recent interview with an Argentine publication Infobae, Francis said the ban on priests having sex was only “temporary” and that there is “no contradiction for a priest
A Roman Catholic priest in the United Kingdom is pursuing legal action against a public hospital trust after he was allegedly ousted from a National Health Service (NHS) facility for responding to a patient’s question about the Church’s stance on sexuality and
A meeting between Germany’s Catholic bishops and lay representatives agreed Friday to call for the church to approve blessings of same-sex unions. The three-day gathering, which is part of the “Synodal Path” launched in 2019 in response to the sex abuse crisis