Morning Catholic must-reads: 27/11/15
Pope Tawadros II has become the first Coptic pope in decades to visit Israel. The Church in El Salvador has suspended a prominent priest over abuse allegations. Officials are investigating reports of a...
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Pope tells young Kenyans: corruption will destroy your heart. Don’t develop a...
Pope Francis has urged Kenyan youths to resist the temptation of corruption, saying it’s like sugar: you develop a taste for it but it’s ultimately terrible for you. Francis spoke off the cuff to...
View ArticleFor Christians, martyrdom is a ‘never-ending story,’ says cardinal
For Christians, martyrdom remains a “never-ending story” that stretches from scriptural accounts of apostolic times to today’s “amphitheatre of YouTube”, Cardinal Donald Wuerl writes in a new book. The...
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The persecution of Christians and other religious minorities by ISIS should be recognised as “genocide”, US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has said. Bishop Joseph Alessandro has praised Muslims...
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Francis may become the first pope to visit the Mosque of Rome on January 27, reports John Allen. A Muslim teacher shot while protecting Christians from Islamists in a bus attack in Kenya has died in...
View ArticleKenya’s bishop offers condolences after soldiers killed by al-Shabab
Kenya’s bishops offered condolences to military families who lost their loved ones during an al-Shabab attack on Kenyan soldiers stationed in Somalia.As the Kenyan government continued to say it could...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 12/04/16
Pope Francis has reportedly promised to extend the validity of confessions heard by SSPX priests beyond the Year of Mercy. Kenya is in the grip of the “malignant disease” of corruption, the country’s...
View ArticleKenyan bishops challenge government to put a stop to corruption
Kenya’s Catholic bishops challenged the government to show commitment in fighting corruption, calling it a “cancer” that “is killing our country.” “The ordinary men and women are bearing the burden of...
View ArticleKenyan bishop warns youth are being ‘lured’ into devil worship
Devil worship is a reality in Kenya, a Kenyan bishop has said adding that he hoped Pope Francis’ declaration of the Year of Mercy would help Catholics remain strong. Bishop Emanuel Barbara of Malindi...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 19/05/16
A kidnapped priest in Yemen is alive and not being held by ISIS, according to Indian government sources. The Archdiocese of Chicago has said it will begin to offer employees 12 weeks of paid parental...
View ArticleSlovak nun, shot in South Sudan, dies in Nairobi hospital
A Slovak nun shot and wounded in Yei, South Sudan, died on May 20 at a hospital in Nairobi. Holy Spirit Missionary Sister Veronika Terezia Rackova, director of St Bakhita Medical Center in Yei, was...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 02/08/16
Demonstrations by Copts in America “stain the image of Egypt nationally and internationally”, Pope Tawadros II has said. The funeral of Fr Jacques Hamel will take place in Rouen cathedral today....
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 27/09/16
Colombia’s historic peace deal is only the “beginning of a still open process of change”, Vatican Cardinal Pietro Parolin has said at a Mass in Cartagena. The conflict in Aleppo has destroyed 20...
View Article12 killed as Islamist gunmen target Christians in Kenya shooting
Islamic extremist gunmen from neighbouring Somalia killed 12 people in an attack on non-Muslims in Kenya’s northern Mandera County, an official said on Tuesday. Somalia’s al-Shabab rebels claimed...
View ArticleMore must be done to stop corruption, say Kenyan bishops
Kenya’s Catholic bishops urged the government to intensify its efforts to eliminate corruption in the country. The bishops said “the disease of corruption … seems to be perpetrated without shame or...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 01/02/17
Evangelicals must not gloss over fundamental differences with Catholics, the Evangelical Alliance has said in a statement marking the Reformation’s 500th anniversary (full text). The head of the Kenyan...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 08/06/17
Catholics in South Sudan hope the papal visit to the country “hasn’t been put off completely”, bishops’ conference president Bishop Edward Hiiboro Kussala has said. A court has ordered Kenya’s bishops...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 26/06/17
There is “no Christian mission in the name of tranquility”, Pope Francis said at yesterday’s Angelus (full text, full video). Kenya’s bishops have issued a pastoral letter calling for a “peaceful and...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 22/08/17
Vatican Cardinal Pietro Parolin held talks with Metropolitan Hilarion on the first day of his Russia visit. Papal ghostwriter Archbishop Víctor Manuel Fernández has accused Amoris Laetitia’s critics of...
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