Tag: Catholics
Catholics celebrate Easter – Pope gives blessing “Urbi et Orbi” – News
At the climax of the Easter celebrations, Pope Francis celebrated the big Easter Sunday mass in St. Peter’s Square in Rome. The head of the Catholic Church officially presided over…
he uses (and abuses?) the strategy of small steps”
LAre gay or lesbian couples about to become couples? “irregular” like the others in the eyes of the Vatican? Read the declaration Fiducia supplicans published on December 18 by the…
the bishops of France offer a prayer on the subject for Christmas
Bourges Cathedral, April 20, 2019. GUILLAUME SOUVANT/AFP Often scattered, the pews of the church always fill up at Christmas. This year, the French episcopate has decided to take advantage of…
Emmanuel Macron says he is concerned by the “dramatic” situation of the Catholic parish in Gaza
During a telephone interview with the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Emmanuel Macron expressed, Saturday December 23, “his deep concern” in front of “the dramatic situation” from the Catholic parish in…
“Vatican II’s silence on sexual violence questions the Church’s capacity for reform”
Flittle known, clerical sexual violence gave rise, as part of the preparation for the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965), to an important debate in which around a hundred bishops, including the…
JMJ: a last vigil under the stars for young Catholics
Alexandra Jaegy, edited by Alexandre Dalifard / Photo credit: NUNO CRUZ / NURPHOTO / NURPHOTO VIA AFP 7:41 p.m., August 05, 2023 As World Youth Day ends on Sunday with…
“It was really something to see that”: at WYD, the Pope, the idol of young Catholics
Alexandre Jaegy (in Lisbon) // Photo credit: THOMAS COEX / AFP 07:19, August 04, 2023 REPORTING It is a delirious crowd worthy of the best rock concerts, which welcomed this…
How the Swiss Catholics say goodbye
Joseph Ratzinger never officially came to Switzerland as Pope, he only visited the monks and dogs on the Great St. Bernhard once. Nevertheless, he was a formative figure for many…
Marriage of homosexual couples – Thurgau Catholics want more equality and transparency – News
contents The Thurgau regional church has shown itself to be progressive by joining the “Alliance Equally Catholic”. The Catholic regional church of Thurgau is the first in Switzerland to join…
In Northern Ireland, for the first time, Catholics outnumber Protestants
The ‘peace wall’ dividing loyalist and republican areas of Belfast, Northern Ireland. © OLIVIA ARTHUR/MAGNUM PHOTOS / © OLIVIA ARTHUR/MAGNUM PHOTOS Carried out in 2021 and published on Thursday September…
Pope admits mistakes in communication with German Catholics
PPope Francis agreed on one point with German Catholics’ criticism of the Vatican’s most recent statement on the “Synodal Path” reform project. It was a “mistake” to publish the statement…
Pope Francis “attentive” to the “problems” of Catholics in China
Pope Francis said on Sunday following “carefully” the “problems” and “the often complicated existenceof Catholics in China, without however explicitly mentioning the brief arrest in Hong Kong of a 90-year-old…