The Syro-Malabar Catholic community in Northgate, Brisbane, is flourishing while the English-speaking congregation at the same church faces the cancellation of its Sunday Mass. St Alphonsa Church on Nudgee Road, known to older locals as St John’s, has seen its Syro-Malabar Catholic congregation grow. The growth has been due primarily to an influx of Indian Read more
Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa has issued a stark warning regarding the ongoing conflict in the Holy Land. Pizzaballa says that the current negotiations represent the “last chance” for peace between Israel and Hamas. Speaking at the Rimini Meeting in Italy, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem described the situation as a “fateful moment”, calling for an immediate Read more
The Nicaragua government has dramatically escalated its repression of the Catholic Church and civil society, with more than 870 church attacks reported since 2018. Under President Daniel Ortega, incidents against the Catholic church have included arson, harassment and the arrest of clergy. This crackdown reflects the Ortega regime’s broader strategy to silence dissenting voices, particularly Read more
A Pew Research Centre study released on Monday has found Christian migrants make up about 47 percent of the world’s 280 million migrants today – despite Christians accounting for only about 30 percent of the global population. The study reported that Muslims and Jews are migrating in big numbers. “Pew’s latest data – collected in Read more
Gender dysphoria is a concern where the Catholic Medical Association (CMA) and US plastic surgeons agree. Plastic surgeons are now questioning the wisdom of providing surgical intervention for teens experiencing gender dysphoria. “From our first days in plastic surgery residency training, we were taught that there are no surgical solutions to psychological problems and that Read more
The Vatican on Wednesday expelled the founder of an influential Peruvian religious movement, the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, after the Catholic hierarchy spent more than a decade downplaying allegations of sexual and psychological abuse and financial corruption against him and his community. The decree against Luis Fernando Figari came after Pope Francis last year ordered an Read more
Following the release of their new album, titled “Marigold,” the Hillbilly Thomists performed in Washington, DC, as part of their ongoing Marigold Tour on Aug 8, the feast of St Dominic. Playing at St Francis Hall to a sold-out crowd of more than 150 people, the band of Dominican friars played various songs from all Read more
A leading African archbishop has said that an historical tendency to regard Christianity as the “white man’s God,” and the current rise of a “prosperity Gospel” conflating Christianity with material success, both represent obstacles to real evangelisation on the continent. Archbishop Augustine Obiora Akubeze of Benin City was speaking August 9 during an evangelisation conference Read more
A former Vatican envoy to the United States who has publicly called for Pope Francis’s resignation and who was excommunicated earlier this summer has said his life is in danger and voiced belief that the sanction against him is invalid. Speaking to veteran Vatican journalist Franca Giansoldati with Italian newspaper Il Messaggero, Italian Archbishop Carlo Read more
Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller has rejected allegations of financial impropriety during his tenure as prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), calling the claims a “defamation strategy” with no basis in fact. Speaking in an interview on EWTN, the cardinal asserted that there is “no proof” of any wrongdoing and Read more