Category: International News

In the lead-up to the Irish election on 29 November, The Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference reiterated its total rejection of legalised assisted suicide in restricted circumstances.

Pope Francis has strongly criticised what he called the ‘shameful inability’ of the international community to end the war in the Middle East, one year after Hamas’ devastating attack on Israel, 7 October 2023.

After three years of discussion, debate and, at times, division, the concluding act of Pope Francis’ Synod of Bishops on Synodality took place in October (2–27).  A total of 368 participants gathered for the second and final Roman assembly in order to continue the work of the Synod on Synodality around the theme ‘For a […]

Forty years after the murder of Blessed Jerzy Popieluszko, Polish Catholics are urging people everywhere to revisit and learn from his heroic testimony.

Pope Francis announced after his Sunday Angelus, 6 October, that he would hold a Consistory for the creation of new Cardinals, on 7 December 2024, in the Vatican.

In a surprising move, Pope Francis has named Ukrainian-born Bishop Mykola Bychok as Australia’s new cardinal.

Myanmar has been wracked by violence since a military coup in 2021 overthrew Aun San Suu Kyi’s democratically elected government and plunged it into conflict.

Gustavo Gutiérrez, the influential Peruvian priest known as ‘the father of liberation theology’ and hailed as a ‘prophet of the poor’, has died in Lima at the age of 96.

Pope Francis has accepted the request of Indonesian Bishop Paskalis Bruno Syukur, not to be created a cardinal at the upcoming Consistory on 7 December, 2024. Sixty-two-year-old Franciscan Paskalis Bruno Syukur was appointed a bishop by Pope Francis in 2013, after serving as Provincial of the Order of Friars Minor in Indonesia.

The number of Catholics and permanent deacons in the world rose in 2022, while the number of seminarians, priests, men and women in religious orders, and baptisms declined, according to Vatican statistics.