Tag: Catholic Church

• Monday, July 22nd 2024 - 20:36 UTC

  Falkland Islands Prefecture has new Apostolic Administrator

  

  Father Tom Thomas, a priest of the Rosminian order serving as Rector and Parish priest of St Etheldreda's in central London has been appointed Apostolic Administrator of the Prefecture of the Falkland Islands y the Dicastery for Evangelization.

• Friday, May 24th 2024 - 10:32 UTC

  The first millennial and “God's influencer” to be canonized by Pope Francis

  

  BBC is reporting that a London-born teenager - whose proficiency at spreading the teachings of the Catholic church online led to him being called “God's influencer” - is set to become a saint. Carlo Acutis died in 2006, at the age of 15, meaning he would be the first millennial - a person born in the early 1980s to late 1990s - to be canonized.

• Tuesday, October 31st 2023 - 08:56 UTC

  Scandal in Spain's Catholic Church: one in 200 Spaniards claim to have been sexually abused by priests

  

  A new scandal has erupted in Spain when more than one in 200 Spaniards claim they were sexually abused by the Catholic Church when they were minors, according to an official report published in Madrid.

• Monday, January 23rd 2023 - 09:06 UTC

  Canada agrees to compensation for abuses of Indigenous peoples at the hands of the Catholic Church

  

  Canada has reached a settlement agreement worth US$2.09 billion, (€1.93 billion) with representatives of Indigenous peoples, abused for nearly a century by Church residential institutions. The sum will be placed in a not-for-profit trust aimed at financing Indigenous education, culture, and language, the Canadian government announced.

• Saturday, December 31st 2022 - 12:47 UTC

  Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI dies at age 95

  

  Benedict XVI, the 265th pope of the Catholic Church, died Saturday at the age of 95. He was the longest-serving Supreme Pontiff in history, having surpassed Leo XIII (1810-1903).

• Monday, June 13th 2022 - 10:10 UTC

  A group of Colombian Catholics wants Hernández excommunicated

  

  Colombian Catholic groups have filed a petition before the Archdiocese of Bogotá for the ex-communication of presidential hopeful Rodolfo Hernández for his “deep offenses” against the Virgin Mary, it was reported.

• Monday, May 16th 2022 - 09:00 UTC

  Argentine Pope canonizes first Uruguayan Saint

  

  Pope Francis Sunday raised the first Uruguayan national to sainthood from St. Peter's Square when he canonized Mother Francisca Rubatto, an Italian-Uruguayan nun who lived between 1844 and 1904.

• Saturday, January 22nd 2022 - 09:43 UTC

  Emeritus pope Benedict allegedly involved in cover ups of sexual abuse against minors

  

  A distraught Pope Francis again pledged justice for the victims of sexual abuse by members of the Catholic Church, following the devastating report which revealed that former Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI failed to act in several cases of abuse, almost a cover-up, while a bishop in Germany.

• Wednesday, January 12th 2022 - 09:35 UTC

  Catholic mass in Spanish in the Falklands beginning 6 February

  

  A Catholic mass will soon be offered in Spanish at St Mary’s church in Falkland Islands' capital, Stanley in a bid to make services more accessible. The Falklands community is richly diverse, including a strong representation of South American nationalities.

• Saturday, December 11th 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  Pope Francis defends the resigned archbishop of Paris, victim of “injustice”

  

  The “sins of the flesh are not the most serious” said Pope Francis this week in reference to the recent resignation of the Archbishop of Paris. However, he condemned the “injustice” of the resignation of Michel Aupetit, because of media reports about an alleged intimate relation of the archbishop with a woman.