Catholic News
- Vatican newspaper republishes 'prophetic' text by Teilhard (L'Osservatore Romano (Italian))The Vatican newspaper has republished a brief 1950 article by Father Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955), the French Jesuit philosopher and paleontologist whose support for eugenics continued even after the Holocaust. Father Teilhard’s text, “Macchine combinatorie e super-cervelli” [Combining Machines and Super-Brains], appeared on page 10 of the newspaper’s September 1 edition. It was introduced […]
- Prominent African cardinal helps lead global ecumenical Season of Creation prayer service (Season of Creation)Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu, OFM Cap, the president of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar, joined Protestant clergy from South Korea and Colombia in leading the global opening prayer service for the Season of Creation. The Season of Creation, an ecumenical initiative, begins on September 1—the World Day of Prayer for Creation […]
- Priest brutally murdered in Sierra Leone (Tribune Chrétienne)Father Augustine Dauda Amadu, a priest who ministered in Sierra Leone, was brutally murdered by armed robbers in his residence on the night of August 29-30. The priest ministered in Kenema, a city of 155,000 in the West African nation.
- Scale of Taliban's oppression is 'almost unimaginable,' Nobel laureate tells Vatican spokesman (Vatican News)A Pakistani Nobel Peace Prize winner who lived under Taliban rule told a Vatican spokesman that the “scale of the Taliban’s oppression is almost unimaginable.” “Women and girls are banned from education, work and any form of public and political participation,” Malala Yousafzai said in an interview with Alessandro Gisotti, a vice director of the […]