WelCom October 2021 Christianity is a relic that no longer speaks to many people nor affects the way they live their lives, Pope Francis said during his four-day pastoral visit to Slovakia, in Central Europe, September 12–15, 2021. It was the fourth papal visit to that country and the first by a pope in 18 […]
WelCom October 2021 It was after reading Pope Francis’ encyclical, ‘Laudato si’, on Care for Our Common Home’, that Emily Burke began wondering what she, as a student at Jesuit-run Creighton University, could do to help protect the environment. ‘I was really energised,’ Burke recalled after reading the teaching document. ‘That message informed my time […]
WelCom October 2021 The beatification of Albino Luciano, better known as Pope John Paul I, could finally be green-lighted with the approval of a miracle that has been presented of a scientifically inexplicable healing of an Argentine girl. An article published in Italian newspaper Avvenire said the beatification process has reached the final stage and […]
WelCom October 2021 The debate about denying Communion to politicians who support abortion must be handled in a pastoral way, not by public condemnations that seek to ‘excommunicate’ Catholics who are not in line with church teaching, Pope Francis has said. During his return flight from Slovakia in September, the Pope said that while there […]
WelCom October 2021 Older people are not ‘leftovers’ to be discarded, Pope Francis said in the homily he wrote for the Mass marking the first World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly. ‘Let us ask ourselves, “Have I visited my grandparents, my elderly relatives, the older people in my neighbourhood? Have I listened to them? […]
WelCom October 2021 Four Missionaries of Charity nuns and two Indian Jesuit priests stranded in trouble-torn Afghanistan after the Taliban took control have been moved to safety. ‘Our four nuns have been shifted out of Afghanistan and are safe,’ said Sr Christy, based in Kolkata, the headquarters of the congregation. Two Indian Jesuit have returned […]
WelCom October 2021 Six nuns from the convent of the Franciscan Sisters of the Holy Family of Mary congregation in Curitiba, Brazil, died in less than a week, five of them from Covid-19. Other nuns at the convent also came down with the illness and some were admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU). Sr […]
WelCom October 2021 Canada’s Catholic bishops have expressed their ‘profound remorse’ for the treatment of Canada’s indigenous population at the network of resident schools the Church ran across the country. Their move came months after the discovery of more than 1000 unmarked graces at the sites of three schools the Church operated as part of […]
WelCom October 2021 Jesuit Fr Frank Brennan, an Australian writer and legal scholar, says he believes the proceedings against Cardinal Pell were the result of a political vendetta against the prelate. According to Fr Brennan, Victoria’s policing and criminal justice systems erred so seriously in relation to Cardinal George Pell that it shows not even […]
WelCom October 2021 Pope Francis sent 15,000 ice-creams to prisoners to help them cool down during what has been one of the hottest summers on record in Italy. The ice-creams were delivered to Rome’s two prisons. The Vatican said the donation was among one of several ‘small evangelical gestures’ made during the [European] summer ‘to […]