Although prisoners must pay a price for their crimes, incarceration must not be used as a method of torture but rather an opportunity to become contributing members of society, Pope Francis said.
Some 400 Dominicans, friends and parishioners came together at the Blackfriars Dominican community in Springs, Gauteng, to celebrate the centenary of the friars’ presence in South Africa.
Secret negotiations between Heinrich Himmler and a Swiss Catholic politician, hired by a Jewish woman and helped by an Italian papal nuncio, may have contributed to ending the mass extermination of the Jewish people.
If a Catholic priest violates his vow of celibacy and fathers a child, he has “a moral obligation to step aside from ministry and provide for the care and needs of the mother and the child,” said Boston Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley.
Countries such as the US, the United Kingdom and Canada have pledged large sums of money to assist countries facing severe food emergencies, but a gap exists between pledged aid and the amount of aid collected.
Nobody should make their home on a rubbish dump — and yet that’s where people are living. WINNIE GRAHAM explains how a group of Catholics in Oudtshoorn reached out to them.
Pope Francis offered his condolences and his prayers to the people of Sierra Leone after flooding and a major mudslide...
A Russian church leader has urged the Vatican’s secretary of state to use his upcoming Moscow visit to tackle “practical...
When passing through the storm of life’s difficult moments, Christians must latch on to the Lord and not the false sense...
