Catholic News
- Pontifical academy hosts conference on ecology and peace (Pontifical Academy of Theology)The Pontifical Academy of Theology is hosting a two-day conference, “Creato, Natura, Ambiente, per un Mondo di Pace” [Creation, Nature, Environment for a World of Peace]. Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Secretary of State of His Holiness, and Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, one of the two pro-prefects of the Dicastery for Evangelization, are among the speakers […]
- US-Mexico border bishops call for humanitarian corridors for refugees (Vatican News)At the conclusion of a meeting in Piedra Negras, Mexico, 38 bishops who lead US and Mexican dioceses in border states called for “safe and legal humanitarian corridors for the most vulnerable migrants and refugees.” Criticizing the Trump administration’s immigration policies, Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller of San Antonio said that “we, as bishops, have been very […]
- Eastern Catholic prelates gather in Vienna, pray for Ukraine; Cardinal Schönborn lauds Eastern liturgy (L'Osservatore Romano (Italian))Fifty prelates who minister to Europe’s Eastern Catholics gathered in Vienna, where they attended a Divine Liturgy celebrated by Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, archbishop emeritus of Vienna, preached the homily, and Cardinal Claudio Gugerotti, prefect of the Dicastery for the Eastern Churches, was in […]
- Leading African, Asian, Latin American cardinals call for 'economic degrowth' to avert climate catastrophe (SECAM)In a September 10 letter to leading UN officials, the presidents of CELAM (the Latin American Episcopal Conference), the FABC (Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences), and SECAM (the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar) emphasized that “the climate crisis is an urgent reality” that ”leaves no room for delay, compromise, or half-measures.” “It […]