The celebration of Youth Day, and remembering the extraordinary sacrifices and bravery of the Soweto youth of June 16, 1976, is these days often accompanied by a lament for modern-day youth: “The trouble with...
Time is running out to find the more than 1 million Jews and Roma people buried in mass graves who were killed during World War II. At the same time, mass graves are turning...
People cannot sit back and be indifferent or unresponsive to growing poverty in the world as a privileged minority accumulates “ostentatious wealth,” Pope Francis said. “God created the heavens and the earth for all;...
Read the four gospels, and see why every meeting with Jesus Christ brought a change in so many lives. Fr Ralph de Hahn, Cape Town – From time to time the Eucharist has been mentioned...
A priest who loves rebuilding hot rods and assisting seminarians is donating a 1969 Pontiac Firebird Convertible that he refurbished for a raffle in support of vocations for the Diocese of Gallup in New...
To involve young people in preparations for the Synod of Bishops on youth in 2018, the Vatican has released an online questionnaire to better understand the lives, attitudes and concerns of 16- to 29-year-olds...
Monsignor Vincent Hill composed this beautiful hymn for the Via Lucis Stations of the Cross. It fits the tune of “Easter Glory fills the sky” by James Quinn SJ. We have included a video...
A Lithuanian archbishop who was murdered with a lethal injection after 16 years in prisons and labour camps was to become the first Catholic martyr from the country’s communist era to be declared blessed....
By Catholic News Service – Catholic bishops in Cameroon said a bishop whose body was pulled from a river in early June did not commit suicide, but was murdered. “In view of the initial...
“We pray for all the residents of Grenfell Tower,” said Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster. “I pray particularly for those who have suffered injury, those who have died, and all the residents who have...
This year the Catholic Charismatic Movement worldwide reaches its 50th birthday, which will be celebrated in St Peter’s Square with Pope Francis on the feast of Pentecost. ERIN CARELSE looks at the movement’s history...
Fay Jackson, Benoni – There is no doubt we are blessed with the pope for our times, and I am sure the cardinals who chose Pope Francis knew him well. Looking back to when...
