Global Church News
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How the Church is helping to protect the environment
Jun 22, 2018
Church groups began to keenly involve themselves in environmental activities after Pope Francis in his May 2015 encyclical Laudato si stressed the need for greater participation in projects aimed at protecting the environment.
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Esquivel and Ikeda launch world campaign for peace
Jun 22, 2018
Nobel Peace Prize winner Adolfo Pérez Esquivel and Buddhist master Dasaiki Ikeda have launched an unusual appeal for young people.
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Switch to alternative energy — ‘No time to lose’!
Jun 22, 2018
The world needs a new kind of leadership that believes in building up the whole human family and protecting the environment, Pope Francis told a group of energy and oil executives and global investors.
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Kerala woman’s pardon to save son’s killer on death row
Jun 22, 2018
A man from Uttar Pradesh who is on death row in Saudi Arabia can look forward to a new life after the mother of the roommate he had killed pardoned him.
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Council of Cardinals to deliver new outline of Vatican bureaucracy to Francis
Jun 22, 2018
The group of cardinals advising Pope Francis on reforming the Vatican bureaucracy says it will soon deliver for consideration by the Pope the “first systematic text” for a possible new structure of the city-state’s institutions.
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Most fundamental human right is hope
Jun 22, 2018
The theory that well-being will automatically flow down to everyone from the riches of the few is “a lie,” Pope Francis said.
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Environmental law-breaking sparks Indonesian election push
Jun 22, 2018
The environment has taken centre stage in Indonesia’s regional elections in South Kalimantan after it emerged that the vast majority of mining and palm oil businesses in the province flout environmental laws.
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Using women, trampling on their dignity is a sin
Jun 22, 2018
Exploiting women or treating them like objects is a sin against God, Pope Francis said.
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Migration, justice and solidarity for people, who are not numbers
Jun 22, 2018
“The shared global management of international migration” must be grounded in “the values of justice, solidarity and compassion” because “the issue of migration is not simply one of numbers, but of persons,” writes Pope Francis in a message to the Second Holy See - Mexico Conference on International Migration.
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Pope accepts resignation of Chilean bishop at centre of abuse scandal
Jun 22, 2018
Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of the Catholic bishop at the center of Chile's clergy sexual abuse crisis, in the first of what is expected to be a wave of firings to root out what the pontiff has termed a "culture of abuse and cover-up" in the country's church.
Sunday Reflection
Nativity of John the Baptist: God’s plan for us
Today’s celebration, the Solemnity of the Birth of John the Baptist, has two sets of readings; one for the vigil Masses on Saturday and one for the Sunday Masses.
