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Jesuits: Two priests killed in northern Mexico
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Two Jesuit priests have been killed inside a church where a man pursued by gunmen apparently sought refuge in a remote mountainous area of northern Mexico, the religious order's Mexican branch announced June 21.
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Two Nigeria churches attacked; worshippers killed, abducted
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) -- Gunmen attacked two churches in rural northwestern Nigeria June 19, killing three people, witnesses and a state official said, weeks after a similar attack in the West African nation left 40 worshippers dead.
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Young people 'key' to building understanding, Israeli ambassador to Poland says
Dialogue between young people from Israel and Poland is key to building understanding between the nations, Israeli Ambassador to Poland Yacov Livne told students and faculty at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland, on June 21.
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Padre Pio was canonized on this day 20 years ago
On this day 20 years ago, more than 300,000 people crowded into St. Peter's Square as Pope John Paul II canonized St. Pio of Pietrelcina, calling his life a witness to the "glory of the cross." John Paul II said that the life and mission of the Capuchin friar -- more commonly known simply as Padre Pio -- "proves that difficulties and sorrows, if accepted out of love, can be transformed into a privileged way of holiness, which opens onto the horizons of a greater good, known only to the Lord."
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Cardinal adviser to Pope Francis says resignation rumors are 'cheap soap opera'
VATICAN CITY (RNS) -- In an interview published June 8, Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga dismissed rumors circulating in the media that the pope might resign as nothing more than "a cheap soap opera."
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Pope blasts Russian 'cruelty,' lauds Ukrainian 'heroism'
ROME (AP) -- Pope Francis has blasted the "ferocity and cruelty" of Russian troops in Ukraine while praising the "heroism" and "courage" of Ukrainians to defend their land. Francis made some of his most pointed comments about the war in a meeting with European editors of Jesuit journals last month, excerpts of which were published June 14 in Italian dailies La Stampa and Avvenire.
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Meet the friars who have been praying to St. Anthony daily for 100 years
Catholics know St. Anthony of Padua as a Franciscan preacher, a doctor of the Church, and the patron of lost things. For the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement in upstate New York, he's also a big brother.
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Why this August's extraordinary consistory of cardinals is significant
VATICAN CITY (CAN) -- Under the Code of Canon Law, reformed in 1983, there are two types of consistories of cardinals: ordinary and extraordinary. An extraordinary consistory is celebrated in particular cases and all the world's cardinals are called to take part.
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Why this August's extraordinary consistory of cardinals is significant
Under the Code of Canon Law, reformed in 1983, there are two types of consistories of cardinals: ordinary and extraordinary. An extraordinary consistory is celebrated in particular cases and all the world's cardinals are called to take part.
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At least 50 feared dead in attack on Catholic church in Nigeria
At least 50 people were killed and others injured Sunday when gunmen attacked worshippers at a Catholic church in southwestern Nigeria, according to media reports. A doctor at a hospital in Owo, a town in the Nigerian state of Ondo, told Reuters that no fewer than 50 bodies had been moved to the Federal Medical Center in Owo and to St. Louis Catholic Hospital.
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Blessed Carlo Acutis' tomb permanently reopened for public viewing
Visitors to Assisi can once again see Blessed Carlo Acutis, the first millennial to be beatified in the Catholic Church, dressed in jeans and tennis shoes through a viewing glass on his tomb. Archbishop Domenico Sorrentino removed the panel covering Acutis' tomb on June 1, reopening it for permanent public veneration.
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Pauline Jaricot beatified in France
ROME (CAN) -- Nearly 12,000 people attended the beatification of Pauline Jaricot in Lyon, France, May 22. Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle presided over the beatification Mass in Lyon's exhibition hall on May 22, during which a relic of Jaricot's heart was carried in procession.
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Cardinal O'Malley urges Italian bishops to track, share information about abuse
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- As Italian bishops debated how to respond to calls for a nationwide investigation into clerical sexual abuse and the way accusations have been handled, U.S. Cardinal Seán P. O'Malley of Boston, president of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, encouraged them to move forward.
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What message is Pope Francis sending with his choice of new cardinals?
VATICAN CITY (CAN) -- The consistory for the creation of cardinals on Aug. 27 is a ceremony that seems to mark the end of a pontificate -- though that end might be long in coming. After praying the Regina Coeli May 29, Pope Francis announced the creation of 16 new cardinals eligible to vote in a future conclave and five over the age of 80.
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San Diego Bishop Robert McElroy 'stunned' at being named cardinal by Pope Francis
San Diego Bishop Robert McElroy said he was stunned and shocked when he received a 3 a.m. call Sunday (May 29), notifying him that he had been named by Pope Francis as one of 21 new cardinals. As a member of the College of Cardinals, McElroy, 68, will be part of the Church body that assists the pope in running the global Catholic Church and electing a new pope after the sitting one dies or resigns. He will remain in San Diego and will continue to serve as bishop in the U.S.-Mexico border region that serves more than 1.3 million Catholics.
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