The Dicastery for Laity, the Family and Life has imposed term limits on leadership and ordered the groups to ensure all members have a voice in choosing their leaders.
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Vatican bank posts healthy profit despite economic shock of pandemic
The Institute for the Works of Religion, commonly known as the Vatican bank, showed a net profit of 36.4 million euros ($44.1 million) in 2020, according to its annual report.
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Canadian bishops: Indigenous delegation will meet with Pope Francis by end of 2021
The news follows the May 30 announcement by the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation of the discovery of 215 bodies buried on the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in Kamloops, British Columbia.
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Watchdog group: Vatican needs to improve handling of financial crimes
In the assessment released on June 9th, the European Watchdog committee states that the Vatican’s efforts towards investigating potential crimes committed by senior officials needs improving.
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Group recommends keeping some Covid restrictions for in-person worship while some remain unvaccinated
The Ecumenical Consultation on Protocols for Worship, Fellowship, and Sacraments, a group of clergy, scientists and other experts, advised congregations to take it slower at houses of worship, where vaccinated and unvaccinated people may occupy the same space.
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Pope Francis: The church needs fragile pastors — not ‘superman’ priests
“My fragility, the fragility of each one of us, is a theological place of encounter with the Lord. The ‘superman’ priests end up badly, all of them,” Pope Francis said.
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Italian nun slain by 3 teen girls ‘fascinated by Satan’ beatified as a martyr
An Italian nun who was stabbed 19 times more than two decades ago by three teenage girls apparently fascinated by Satan was honored Sunday with beatification as a martyr of the Roman Catholic Church.
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Father James Altman raises $640,000 to fight his bishop’s demand to resign
Videos posted by LifeFunder feature Father Altman railing against the Catholic hierarchy, calling bishops who don’t support him “cowards” and a “brood of vipers,” and labeling liberals “left-wing fascist Nazis.”
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The 8 causes U.S. bishops want Catholics to pray for during this year’s Religious Freedom Week
Adoption and foster care, free speech and church vandalism are some of the topics of concern chosen by the U.S. bishops for Religious Freedom Week, which is set for June 22-29.
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Chesterton High School opens in Iraq, with an emphasis on classical education
In the fall, Mar Qardakh School, a kindergarten through ninth grade Catholic institution, will open a high school, the Chesterton Academy of St. Thomas the Apostle, in the northern Iraq city.