Mexican Indigenous priest killed leaving Sunday Mass
Updated: 12:25pm (AEDT) Mexico City Reuters A Mexican Catholic priest was killed on Sunday in the southern state of Chiapas after officiating a mass, his religious order and authorities said, marking the latest death in a recent wave of violence in the area. Marcelo Perez – who was Tzotzil, an Indigenous Maya group native to […]
Pope asks for liberation of Myanmar’s detained ex-leader Aung San Suu Kyi
Rome, Italy Reuters Pope Francis has called for the liberation of Myanmar’s detained former leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and offered the Vatican as a safe haven, the pontiff said in a recent conversation with Jesuits in Asia. “I asked for the Ms Aung San Suu Kyi’s release and received her son […]
US Catholics: Tim Busch and Jim Martin bring left and right together over dinner and wine
CLAIRE GIANGRAVÉ, of Religion News Service, reports that the unlikely duo of conservative businessman and Jesuit priest hope to bridge the divide in the church…
Knights of Columbus covers US shrine’s mosaics by ex-Jesuit artist accused of abusing women
Washington DC, US AP The Knights of Columbus, the world’s largest Catholic fraternal group, has covered up defining features of the mosaics in its Washington DC shrine after the famous ex-Jesuit artist who designed them was accused of abusing women. The influential Catholic charitable organisation announced earlier this month that it was covering the works […]
Knights of Columbus will cover up mosaics by ex-Jesuit artist accused of abusing women
Rome, Italy AP The Knights of Columbus, an influential Catholic charitable organisation, announced Thursday that it will cover up its mosaics made by a famous ex-Jesuit artist accused of abusing women in a sign of solidarity with victims of abuse. The world’s largest Roman Catholic fraternal group said the organisation would for now place fabric over the […]
Pope’s top adviser, women who say they were abused by ex-Jesuit artist, ask for mosaics to be removed
Rome, Italy AP The scandal over a famous ex-Jesuit artist who is accused of psychologically, spiritually and sexually abusing adult women came to a head Friday after some of his alleged victims and the Pope’s own anti-abuse adviser asked for his artworks not to be promoted or displayed. The separate initiatives underscored how the case […]
Lifestory: City of Los Angeles proclaims 19th May ‘Father Greg Boyle Day’
ALEJANDRA MOLINA, of Religion News Service, reports that the proclamation comes just two weeks after the priest who founded Homeboy Industries received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Joe Biden…
Seventy-five Christian leaders urge US President, Congress, churches to act on racism, poverty
United States RNS Seventy-five leaders of national Christian organisations and prominent churches have sent a statement to the White House, Congress and congregational leaders calling for greater action to address racism and poverty. “People of color continue to suffer problems related to race – high rates of death during childbirth, for example, and fear of […]
Victims ask Pope for independent inquiry into abuse by prominent priest
Rome, Italy Reuters Former nuns who said they were subjected to sexual, psychological or spiritual abuse by a famous priest urged Pope Francis on Wednesday to allow an independent investigation, saying the Catholic Church had put up “a rubber wall” blocking the truth. Father Marko Ivan Rupnik, a religious artist whose mosaics adorn about 200 […]
Jesuits in US bolster outreach initiative aimed at encouraging LGBTQ+ Catholics
New York, US AP Even as Catholic dogma continues to repudiate same-sex marriage and gender transition, one of the most prominent religious orders in the United States – the Jesuits – is strengthening a unique outreach program for LGBTQ+ Catholics. The initiative – fittingly called Outreach – was founded two years ago by Rev James […]