Almost 30 Catholic pastoral care workers killed in 2016
Some 28 Roman Catholic “pastoral care workers” – a term which includes priests, religious women, seminarians, and laity – were killed in 2016 with more than a third of them based in the Americas, according to the Catholic news agency Agenzia Fides. The organisation reports that 12 pastoral care workers were killed in the Americas […]
Catholics in China should integrate into socialist society – senior party official
RNS/Reuters Chinese Catholics must run their church independently – implying at arms length – from the Vatican, and guide believers on a “Sinicisation path”, said a senior Communist Party official, as China and the Vatican seek to improve relations. Pope Francis is trying to heal a decades-old rift with China where Catholics are divided between […]
US: INAUGURATION SPEAKER FRANKLIN GRAHAM – “GOD ALLOWED DONALD TRUMP TO WIN”
EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER, of Religion News Service, speaks with Franklin Graham about the US election – and why he’s taking his responsibilities at the upcoming inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump “very seriously”…
VALE FATHER FRANCIS MULCAHY
News this week of the death, at the age of 84, of William Christopher, a US actor best known for playing Catholic padre Father Francis Mulcahy in the TV comedy/drama M*A*S*H between 1972 and 1983. Father Francis Mulcahy PICTURE: IMDB – © 1977-1978 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation Christopher’s portrayal of a Roman Catholic priest thrust into […]
THIS LIFE: LET’S START A PRAYER REVOLUTION IN THE NEW YEAR!
Writing from the US, CAROL ROUND calls for a “prayer revolution” in 2017…