Global Church News

St. Aloysius Gonzaga

Jun 21, 2021

The Lord can make saints anywhere, even amid the brutality and license of Renaissance life. Florence was the “mother of piety” for Aloysius Gonzaga despite his exposure to a “society of fraud, dagger, poison, and lust.”
Irish Bishops appeal for peace in Myanmar, Middle East and Northern Ireland

Jun 21, 2021

The Irish Bishops' Conference concludes its Summer General Meeting with a statement appealing for peace in Myanmar, the Middle East, and Northern Ireland, and urging the faithful in the country to avail themselves of the COVID-19 vaccination programme.
Robert Schuman, father of European unity, on path to sainthood

Jun 21, 2021

Pope Francis has authorized the promulgation of a Decree advancing the causes for canonization of European statesman Robert Schuman, as well as ten Polish nuns martyred by Soviet troops at the end of World War II. The heroic virtues of a number of other holy men and women were also officially recognized.
Marian statue untouched by car bombing at army base in Colombia

Jun 21, 2021

A statue of the Virgin Mary was unharmed by an attack carried out against the 30th Brigade of Colombia’s National Army on June 16, Wednesday.
Bishops vote to draft teaching document on the Eucharist

Jun 21, 2021

The U.S. bishops approved by a wide margin a plan to draft a document to examine the “meaning of the Eucharist in the life of the church” following a lengthy debate during their spring general assembly.
Catholic groups ask Bishops for ‘pastoral, moral’ leadership on immigration

Jun 21, 2021

A group of at least 162 organizations are asking bishops’ conferences in the U.S., Central America and Mexico to “hear the cries of our brothers and sisters on the move and respond with bold leadership.”
World Refugee Day: A clarion call to protect and support migrants

Jun 20, 2021

This June 20, World Refugee Day shines the spotlight on the plight of migrants and refugees with calls to protect and support those on the move and forced to flee.
Korean Bishop Lazarus You Heung-sik is the new Prefect of the Clergy

Jun 19, 2021

Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Cardinal Beniamino Stella and appointed 69-year-old Lazarus You Heung-sik, bishop of Daejeon, Korea, as Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy. The new Prefect knows the Pope and welcomed him to his diocese during the Pope's trip to Korea in August 2014.
Korean Church expresses joy with Bishop Lazarus’ appointment

Jun 19, 2021

Cardinal Andrew Yeom has sent a congratulatory message to Archbishop Lazarus You Heung-sik, Bishop of Daejeon, Korea, who was appointed as Prefect of the Congregation for Clergy by Pope Francis on June 11.
Pro-Hong-Kong-democracy leader, Agnes Chow, released from prison

Jun 19, 2021

Agnes Chow hails from a generation of Hong Kong democracy activists who cut their teeth in politics as teenagers and are now being steadily silenced by China.