Dispatches

The Director of the Holy See Press Office Fr Federico Lombardi has confirmed that Pope Francis will receive in private audience the President of the Republic of Cuba Raul Castro Ruz The meeting is scheduled to take place during the morning of Sunday May 10th in the papal studio of the Paul VI

That “$35” ticket for going 75 mph in a 65 on a California highway will actually cost you $234.

‘Missionaries of Mercy’ will be designated for every diocese for whole of the Holy Year

Activists in L.A. say high fees aren’t about parking issues but shoring up the budget.

Scottish National Party leader Nicola Sturgeon emerges as most striking campaign personality

Three days after his city was rocked by civil unrest that began as a young man who died while in police custody was laid to rest, Baltimore Archbishop William Lori was pondering how the local church could respond to the crisis in the city’s streets.

Two priests were elected as candidates to be bishops of two Catholic dioceses in the Province of Henan the birthplace of Chinese civilization in central China They were chosen in closely supervised elections on April 28 and 29 and must now obtain approval from the State-sanctioned Bishops rsquo

Caritas aid missions are reporting that villages in remote areas of Nepal have been utterly devastated by the earthquake Speaking from Pokhari danda in Gorkha 15 km from the epicentre Stefen Teplan of Caritas Germany said ldquo Sixty percent of the village is destroyed More than food and water

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