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Senior Vatican official makes case for a married priesthood

Special Vatican envoys, archbishop Charles Scicluna reads a brochure entitled "A new beginning", during a meeting with priests inside a church in Osorno, Chile, on 15th June, 2018.

Vatican City Reuters The Roman Catholic Church should “seriously think” about allowing priests to marry, a senior Vatican official and advisor to Pope Francis said in an interview published on Sunday. “This is probably the first time I’m saying it publicly and it will sound heretical to some people,” Archbishop Charles Scicluna of Malta, who […]

Pope Francis expresses concern and dismay over alleged abuse by priests in Bolivia

People protest with signs that read in Spanish "Shameless priest do not touch me" and "I march for sexual education without church interference," outside the offices of the Bolivian Episcopal Conference in La Paz, Bolivia, on Monday, 15th May, 2023.

La Paz, Bolivia AP Pope Francis expressed concern – and dismay – over the allegations of sexual abuse committed by priests in Bolivia in a letter sent Friday to President Luis Arce, as a paedophilia scandal involving priests continues to rock the the Andean country. The pontiff pledged “the full cooperation of the Church to […]

Catholic priest burned to death, another shot in north Nigeria

Reuters Gunmen burned a Catholic priest to death and shot and injured his colleague in north-west Nigeria on Sunday, police said, the latest violence raising concerns about security ahead of an election next month. Nigerians will vote for a new president on 25th February but kidnappings for ransom and killings by armed gangs in the […]

Pope warns Vatican staff an “elegant demon” lurks among them

Vatican Pope Francis annual pre Christmas audience

Vatican City AP Pope Francis warned Vatican bureaucrats on Thursday to beware the devil that lurks among them, saying it is an “elegant demon” that works in people who have a rigid, holier-than-thou way of living the Catholic faith. Francis used his annual Christmas greeting to the Roman Curia to again put the cardinals, bishops […]

Jesuits remain in Mexican mountains after priests’ killings

Mexico Cerocahui Javier Campos Morales funeral procession

Mexico City AP Two months after a pair of Jesuit priests were killed in a remote mountain community in northern Mexico, the suspected killer remains on the loose and townspeople are frightened, but the religious order says it is not leaving. The killings of Javier Campos and Joaquín Mora, as well as a tourism guide […]