Myanmar’s Cardinal Charles Bo has insisted climate change is real and compared economic and ecological "terrorists" to ISIS, according to Crux.
The atheist who believes in miracles
03-Mar-2017
Miracle expert Jacalyn Duffin doesn't sound like an atheist when she talks about the mysterious benefit of prayer and the witness of a saintly life but she says miracles happen, the Catholic Weekly reports.
Monks went on a beer fast
03-Mar-2017
Back in the 1600s, Catholic monks brewed beer specifically for a liquid-only Lenten fast, Catholic News Agency reports.
Bishops offer weekly Lent reflections online
03-Mar-2017
Bishops from across Australia will be offering weekly Sunday Gospel reflections online as part of a new Lenten resource prepared by the Diocese of Broken Bay.
Salvadoran Church authenticates Romero miracle
03-Mar-2017
The Salvadoran Church has concluded the local investigation of an alleged miracle by the intercession of Blessed Oscar Romero, assassinated at the altar at the start of the Salvadoran Civil War, Vatican Insider reports.
Pray for persecuted Christians in March: Pope
03-Mar-2017
Persecuted Christians are the focus of Pope Francis's monthly intentions for March, as released in his latest video message on The Pope Video website.
Lanigan House: Children not at risk
03-Mar-2017
The director of Canberra's Institute for Professional Standards and Safeguarding, Matt Casey, has assured the Canberra community that children have not been put at risk through the accomodation of clergy at Lanigan House in Garran.
Anti-reform cardinals want Pope to resign
03-Mar-2017
A group of cardinals who supported the election of Pope Francis are worried about his reforms and are planning to appeal to him to step down, a Vatican watcher claims, according to The Times.
Charges laid over war memorial protest
03-Mar-2017
Charges have been laid against two men who confessed to vandalising a war memorial at Toowong in Brisbane, over what they said were its "blasphemous" overtones, the Brisbane Times reports
Cardinal overrules girls' basketball ban
20-Feb-2017
Cardinal Joseph Tobin of Newark, New Jersey, has ruled that a Catholic basketball team that chose to forfeit its season, rather than kick out two girls, will be allowed to complete its schedule with its roster intact, the Washington Post reports.
Discussing clerical misconduct concerning adults
20-Feb-2017
Three major aspects need to be included in any discussion of clerical sexual misconduct involving adults (CSMIA): language, power and vulnerability, and harm, writes Stephen de Weger at Eureka Street.
Jesuit Fr Antonio Spadaro, editor of La Civiltà Cattolica, which has just launched a series of international editions, agrees that the magazine is a "barometer of the Church", in an interview with La Croix International.
Cardinal Gerhard Müller, the Vatican's doctrinal chief, says individual bishops cannot reinterpret Church teaching subjectively, the Catholic Herald reports.
Hobart crypt ready for bishop
20-Feb-2017
The remains of Tasmania's first Catholic Bishop, Robert William Willson, will be flown to Hobart after being exhumed from a crypt at Nottingham's St Barnabas Cathedral, ABC News reports.
Vatican City authorities have frozen more than €2 million ($3 million) worth of assets over suspicions of money laundering that took place in 2016, Sky News reports.
Brisbane welcomes five new seminarians
20-Feb-2017
The Brisbane archdiocese has welcomed five new seminarians to Holy Spirit Seminary Queensland despite the "shame" revealed by the royal commission, the Catholic Leader reports.
Fisher announces uni college governance reforms
20-Feb-2017
In the latest step in governance reforms at Sydney University's St John's College, Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP has announced the appointment of a new council.
Huge tides and waves linked to climate change are already forcing people from their homes, says Cardinal John Ribat of Port Moresby, the Catholic Register reports.
It often feels to me that the voices who want physician-assisted dying are given extra amplification by celebrities, and that, because they talk about dying with dignity, they somehow must be right, writes Julie Morgan.
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