Global Church News
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Archbishop You on prayers, fasting and charity to fight the coronavirus emergency
Feb 27, 2020
The Bishop of Daejeon looks at the situation in South Korea which just had its largest one-day increase. For the Church, scaremongering is feeding fear. All 16 dioceses have suspended open Masses. A pseudo-Christian sect is one of the sources of the outbreak. Some of its members were in the epicentre of the outbreak in China.
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Card Tong: Lent in the coronavirus wilderness
Feb 27, 2020
In his Lenten Letter, the apostolic administrator of Hong Kong refers to wilderness and temptation in the distrust of people after the battle against the extradition bill. Many acts of selfishness have occurred alongside many acts of “generosity” by those who treat the sick and donate surgical masks and supplies "to those in need". Lent is a "training school”.
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Card Bo: The tragic coronavirus embodies our fragile and mortal nature
Feb 27, 2020
The president of the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences released a letter on the Covid-19 emergency. In it he writes that “Natural disasters, pandemics are grim reminder of our restricted existence. We are powerless in the face of a invisible microbe attack despite stockpiling lethal arsenal of arms.”
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Asia Bibi seeks political asylum in France
Feb 27, 2020
The Christian woman is in Paris where she asked to meet President Macron. Since release in 2019, she has been hosted in Canada. She claims to love Pakistan, but will be "in exile forever". The mayor of Paris gives her honorary citizenship.
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Pope Francis prays for Iraqis as Vatican confirms no papal visit in 2020
Feb 27, 2020
Pope Francis said Wednesday that he is praying for the people of Iraq, and repeated his desire to visit the country.
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Denver Archbishop requests fasting, prayer for victims of sexual abuse
Feb 27, 2020
For the second year, Archbishop Samuel Aquila of Denver is inviting all the faithful of the local Church to offer prayers and fasting for victims of sexual abuse on the first Friday of Lent, Feb. 28.
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Relics of Ss. Louis, Zelie Martin find home in parish named for daughter Therese
Feb 27, 2020
Fr. John Fain is getting the 19th-century family of St. Therese back together.
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Pope Francis' Querida Amazonia: Dreaming with God for all humanity
Feb 26, 2020
Pope Francis published his response to the Vatican’s 2019 Amazon synod in an apostolic exhortation February12. Despite widespread speculation following the synod, the pope does not call for married priests, but seeks to expand "horizons beyond conflicts."
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Five Takeaways from ‘Querida Amazonia’
Feb 26, 2020
The Amazon synod was the first meeting of its kind to be organized around a distinct ecological territory. The region contains about 34 million inhabitants, including three million indigenous people from nearly 400 ethnic groups.
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What’s in Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation on the Amazon synod?
Feb 26, 2020
Pope Francis has again surprised the world with his long-awaited document (“Apostolic Exhortation”) in response to the deliberations of the Pan-Amazonian synod.
Sunday Reflection
Seventh Sunday of Ordinary Time: And Jesus said: “Love Your Enemies”
Hatred kills. There is nothing earth shaking about that statement. Wars demonstrate this. There are people who hate other people and who do everything they can to eliminate the those people.
