Category: International News

Pope Francis has expressed firm opposition to the idea of ordaining Catholic women as deacons, raising doubts about the possibility that the ongoing three-year synodal process could move forward on the issue.

Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby has joined other faith leaders, ethicists, and university professors in signing the ‘Rome Call’ for the ethical development of artificial intelligence. While recognising the enormous potential AI can offer in improving human capability, Archbishop Welby emphasised that people must also strive ‘to protect, preserve and cherish the dignity of the human person’.

Bishop Reynaldo Bunyi Getalado has been ordained as coadjutor bishop of Rarotonga Diocese in the Cook Islands. He is a member of the Mission Society of the Philippines (MSP)and is the first bishop in the Cook Islands of Asian origin

Spain’s Prado Museum has unveiled a work by Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio that was considered lost for centuries. 

Pope Francis has reiterated the importance of a closer collaboration between the Church and Buddhists to address the pressing challenges facing the world today. 

Pope Francis has decided some of the most controversial issues raised at the first assembly of the Synod of Bishops on synodality will be examined by study groups that will work beyond the synod’s final assembly in October this year.

The stabbing of Assyrian Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel and Fr Isaac Royel is ‘shocking and has caused distress to many in the community,’ says Sydney Catholic Archbishop, Anthony Fisher op. 

The United Kingdom is gripped by the ‘aggressive promotion’ of doctor-assisted killing, according to a British archbishop who has urged Catholics to write to their local MPs to resist changes to laws prohibiting euthanasia. 

A new formation programme at United States seminaries will see first-year seminarians have more prayer time and less screen time.