May 3, 2014 Catholic World News
Vatican reform takes courage, determination, Pope tells new Council for the Economy CWN - 4 hours ago
Reform at the Vatican will “require courage and determination,” Pope Francis said in an address to the first meeting of the newly established Council for the Economy. Reform is “a significant...
Vatican braces for ideological attack from UN committee CWN - 4 hours ago
As Vatican officials prepare for a May 5 appearance before a UN committee monitoring implementation of the Convention against Torture, the director of the Vatican press office has issued a statement...
Pope will address UN agency chiefs next week CWN - 7 hours ago
Pope Francis will address the heads of UN agencies on May 10, the National Catholic Register reports. The leaders of 29 UN agencies will be meeting in Rome next week, and will be received by the...
15 nations named ‘particularly serious’ religious-freedom violators CWN - 16 hours ago
In its newly released annual report, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) is urging the State Department to designate or redesignate 15 nations as “countries of...
Welsh archbishop gives Anglican ordinariate space in his cathedral CWN - 4 hours ago
Archbishop George Stack of Cardiff has made his metropolitan cathedral available for the use of the Anglican ordinariate in Wales. The ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham will have its own...
Mexican bishops rap government policies, demand deeper reform CWN - 4 hours ago
The Catholic bishops of Mexico have issued a sharp criticism of government policies, the Fides news service reports. The bishops raised concerns about a series of government reform programs,...
Pope wept on hearing of Christians crucified in Syria CWN - 4 hours ago
Pope Francis said that he had wept when he heard of Christians who were crucified in Syria recently. Although he did name Syria during his homily at a Mass on May 2, the Pope was clearly...
LCWR announces top award for theologian criticized by US bishops CWN - 6 hours ago
The Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), an American umbrella group that remains the focus of a Vatican-ordered reform, has given new evidence of its dissident leanings by bestowing its...
English bishop silences conservative deacon's blog CWN - 7 hours ago
Bishop Michael Campbell of Lancaster, England, has shut down a popular blog authored by a deacon the diocese. Deacon Nick Donnelly had set up the “Protect the Pope” blog in response to media...
Coptic text mentioning 'wife of Jesus' shown as a fraud CWN - 7 hours ago
A Coptic fragment of supposedly ancient vintage, that referred to a wife of Jesus, has been exposed as a fraud, an essay in the Wall Street Journal reports. The papyrus fragment was introduced to...
Kenya legalizes polygamy CWN - 16 hours ago
President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya has signed legislation legalizing polygamy. The nation’s bishops, joined by evangelical and mainline Protestant leaders, had opposed the measure, according to...
Irish Church body reports 164 new abuse complaints, mostly from 1960 to 1990 CWN - 4 hours ago
Irish Catholic Church officials heard 164 new allegations of sexual abuse last year, an official report has revealed. The National Board for the Safeguarding of Children, established by the Irish...
Pakistani mosque named for Islamic zealot who killed government official CWN - 4 hours ago
A mosque in Pakistan has been named in honor of the man who killed a government official who criticized the country’s blasphemy law. The mosque in Ghori, a suburb of Islamabad, is named for...
China targets Catholic pilgrimage site CWN - 15 hours ago
Communist officials in Wenzhou, a city of three million in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang, have removed some statues and bricked over others at a Catholic pilgrimage site, according to the...
Oklahoma prelate decries death penalty following botched execution CWN - 17 hours ago
Archbishop Paul Coakley of Oklahoma City said that the botched execution of a man convicted of raping and murdering a child “really highlights the brutality of the death penalty, and I hope it leads...
Federal probe of college sexual assaults includes Catholic University CWN - 17 hours ago
The Catholic University of America is among 55 colleges under investigation by the United States Department of Education over their possibly insufficient response to campus sexual violence. Other...
Brazil’s bishops discuss priest shortage CWN - 18 hours ago
The bishops of Brazil-- the nation with the largest number of Catholics-- are meeting to discuss an increasingly acute priest shortage. In Brazil, nearly 21,000 priests minister to 165 million...
Pope rues big-business aspects of soccer competition CWN - 4 hours ago
The prominence of soccer competition “requires social responsibility on the part of players, both on and off the pitch,” Pope Francis said as he met on May 2 with players and managers from two...
Google denies shift in policy on ads from crisis-pregnancy centers CWN - 6 hours ago
NARAL Pro-Choice America has exaggerated its success in persuading Google to refuse ads from pregnancy-help centers, reports Joan Desmond of the National Catholic Register. “We’ve gotten Google...
3 new members appointed to National Review Board CWN - 17 hours ago
Archbishop Joseph Kurtz of Louisville, the president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, has appointed three new members to the National Review Board, the lay body formed in 2002 in...
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