In a historic moment for the Catholic Church, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was elected as the 267th Pope, taking the name Leo XIV, and becoming the first American-born pope in the Church’s 2,000-year history on May 8.
Pope Francis leads a moment of reflection in the Vatican, ahead of the solemn inauguration of the Synod on Sunday with a Holy Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica.
Pope Francis appointed Bishop Alangaram Arokia Sebastian Durairaj SVD as the new Archbishop of Bhopal in central India on October 4. Archbishop-elect Durairaj was the bishop of Khandwa Diocese in Madhya Pradesh in Central India.
On Sept. 28, a community of seminarians from the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter’s European seminary released an album of Christmas Matins, “Sancta Nox: Christmas Matins from Bavaria”. This week, the 17-song collection topped the Billboard’s Traditional Classical Albums chart.
The announcement of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize highlights the right to information and freedom of speech in a world where democracy and freedom of the press face increasingly adverse conditions.
Asian Bishops Office of Social Communication is organising a webinar for church leaders to render pastoral care amid the Covid-19 pandemic on November 6.
Pope Francis asked leaders of world religions to resist “the temptation to fundamentalism” for the sake of peace at an interreligious gathering on October 7 in front of the Colosseum.
Pope Francis attends an International Meeting for Peace with leaders of various religions and confessions at Rome's Colosseum, and urges everyone to work toward purifying our hearts so that peace might fill our world.
Archbishop Piero Pioppo, the Ambassador of the Holy See to Indonesia, consecrated Msgr. Vitus Rubianto Solichin as a bishop of Padang dioceses on September 7.
Pastoral leaders worry that students in rural Myanmar may get married even before their official age because schools and learning centers are closed due to the pandemic. The leaders say some students already contracted marriage who were below the mandated age.
A new book written by Bangladeshi Cardinal Patrick D'Rozario was released by Archbishop of Bejoy N. D'Cruze of Dhaka at the Catholic Bishops' Conference (CBCB) Center in Mohammadpur, Dhaka, on October 1.
Environmental activists and Ecological Observation and Wetlands Conservation (Ecoton) have built a plastic museum with 3F (Fish Fersus Flastic) in Gersik, East Java Province of Indonesia.
Young African professionals engage in dialogue and reflection on being agents of change inspired by Pope Francis’ call for economic justice and an economy that leaves no one behind.
The Congregation for Catholic Education is set to release three documents to assist Catholic schools and universities in putting into practice the Global Compact on Education, which aims to revitalize the Church’s commitment to young people.
