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Thousands of pilgrims flock to blessed teenager’s tomb for feast day
BLESSED Carlo Acutis, the teenage computer wiz who built website tools to spread Eucharistic devotion, celebrated his first feast day...
If religion becomes an afterthought, ‘our society loses its soul’, Bishop Barron says
WITH tensions rising over the proper role of religion in society, the broader culture appears to be compartmentalising religious faith...
South Sudan church leaders work for peace, but soldiers won’t listen
POPE Francis may have kissed the feet of South Sudan's warring political leaders in a dramatic 2019 appeal for peace,...
Bishops’ warning: Manila is sinking and Catholics must take the environment seriously
Two Philippine bishops have raised the alarm about rising sea levels that make Manila one of the fastest-sinking cities in...
Race begins to rebuild Notre Dame Cathedral by 2024
THE reconstruction of Notre Dame Cathedral has received the greenlight after fires engulfed its roof and sent its spire crashing...
Caritas calls for urgent help as Lebanon crisis deepens
AS Lebanon's financial crisis deepens Caritas Australia is urging Australians to donate towards its emergency and long-term response in the country. About 90...
Church leaders fed up with slow progress catching killers of two nuns
ONE month after two Catholic sisters were executed on a road in South Sudan, their killers remain unidentified, and Church...
Architect turns 67,000 tiny LEGO pieces into Vatican City replica
WE all know Rome wasn’t built in a day, but LEGO architect Rocco Buttliere had three months, which definitely gave...
Christianity without the cross is ‘sterile’, Pope says in Slovakia
FALLING into the temptation of rejecting the cross and choosing a triumphalist form of Christianity leads to a faith that...
Peru’s rebel leader Guzman who targeted the Church, dies in prison
Abimael Guzmán, founder of Peru's violent Shining Path insurgency, who treated the Catholic Church as one of his main enemies,...
Horrors of Holocaust must not be forgotten, Francis tells Slovak Jews
THE violence of the Holocaust and the atrocities committed against the Jewish people are tantamount to blasphemy, Pope Francis said...
Warmly welcomed in Hungary and Slovakia, Francis encourages Christian leaders to unite
HUNDREDS of men, women and children gathered on the tarmac of Bratislava international airport on Sunday to welcome Pope Francis...
Faith sustained this New York City fireman through the harrowing events of 9/11
WHEN the last days of August roll around every year, that’s when the memories start to return to Thomas Damore....
The Eucharist is a source of joy, God’s presence, speakers tell global congress
THE ultimate purpose of the Eucharist was mission, Mary Healy, a professor of Sacred Scripture at Sacred Heart Major Seminary...
Global Christian leaders join forces to warn about the world’s climate crisis
Pope Francis has joined two other global Christian leaders in an unprecedented warned that the world is facing a critical...
Student flash mob 2200-strong marched and sang to church steps to open Eucharistic Congress
By Jim Fair A FLASH mob of 2200 students from six schools waving a Eucharistic flag and singing as one...
Priest on the 9/11 frontline recalls chaos at ground zero
FATHER Kevin Smith, a veteran fire chaplain, trauma counsellor and loyal friend to scores of active and retired firefighters in...
Pressure builds on Australia to boost refugee intake as Pope calls for welcome and protection of fleeing Afghans
POPE Francis has issued a global call for countries to welcome and protect vulnerable Afghans fleeing their homeland. "In these...
South Korean diocese says remains of first Catholic martyrs recovered
THE mortal remains of the first three Korean Catholic martyrs have been recovered more than two centuries after their deaths,...
Pope Francis speaks in rare, wide-ranging interview on latest Motu Proprio, China, German bishops, Vatican corruption
By Larissa Lopez, translated by Virginia Forester IN his interview with Spanish journalist Carlos Herrera on the COPE Radio Network,...
Pope Francis calls for prayer, fasting for Afghanistan
POPE Francis has called on Christians to show solidarity with the people of Afghanistan, especially women and children, the victims...
Two bombs at Kabul airport kill at least 60 people, more than 100 wounded
ISLAMIC State has taken responsibility for a deadly bombing attack at Kabul airport after days of terror attack warnings from...
Two nuns killed in South Sudan after vehicle ambushed along highway
TWO Catholic nuns were shot and killed along a highway in South Sudan as they were returning home to the...
Australian veterans in pain as Afghanistan falls to Taliban
VETERANS chaplain Deacon Gary Stone says he is providing pastoral support to hundreds of Australian ex-soldiers experiencing deep pain and...
Centennial of a murder – the priest, the Klan and a wedding remembered
ONE hundred years ago, at the height of the Spanish Flu pandemic, Irish Father James Coyle was shot and killed...
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