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Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Clarke
Sadly, the church of El Salvador can offer any number of priests, men and women religious and lay people to choose from to hold up as modern exemplars of Christian self-sacrifice.
Logos of ATM services are displayed outside the Financial Centre LAFISE in Managua, Nicaragua, Sept. 7, 2017. Nicaragua has frozen the bank accounts of dioceses nationwide as the regime of President Daniel Ortega escalates its persecution of the Catholic Church with accusations of theft and money laundering. (OSV News photo/Oswaldo Rivas, Reuters)
FaithNews
David Agren - Catholic News Service
Nicaragua appears to have frozen the bank accounts of the country's Jesuit university, marking yet another attack on the Catholic Church.
Nicaraguans with signs stand in front of the Metropolitan Cathedral in San Jose, Costa Rica.
Politics & SocietyNews
David Agren - OSV News
Nicaraguans overwhelmingly disapprove of the conviction and imprisonment of Bishop Rolando Álvarez of Matagalpa, according to a survey in the increasingly repressing Central American country, where the Sandinista regime continues cracking down on the Catholic Church.
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
In a surprise move, Pope Francis has appointed the Argentine theologian and archbishop Victor Manuel Fernández as the new prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith.
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
The Argentine bishops knew for certain as early as 1979 that it was the military junta’s official policy to “disappear” people in order to quash opposition. The Vatican urged the bishops’ conference to intervene using all possible means.
people carry a casket outside the womens prison in honduras
Politics & SocietyNews
David Agren - OSV News
Catholics in Honduras prayed for the victims of a horrific massacre in a women’s prison—an attack underscoring the power of the country’s criminal gangs and their control over correctional facilities.