VATICAN NEWS
- Vatican Museums: Beauty that Unites! 69 September 27, 2020Beauty creates communion. It unites onlookers from a distance, uniting past, present and future. Pope Francis has recalled this on a number of occasions. The Church has always translated the universality of the Good News into the language of art. From this premise, this dramatic moment in history characterized by uncertainty and isolation, gives rise […]
- French authorities investigate act of terrorism September 26, 2020French authorities detain 7 people as they investigate what they view as an act of terrorism.
- Pope appoints Cambridge professor to Pontifical Academy of Sciences September 26, 2020Professor Sir David Charles Baulcombe, Professor of Botany at Cambridge University, is appointed by Pope Francis as a Member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences on Saturday.
- Pope to educators: form people capable of responsibility in society September 26, 2020Pope Francis has sent a message to the annual congress of the Catholic Educational Association of the Philippines (CEAP).
- Young people in Malawi lead with parish contributions at an event September 26, 2020Mthawira Catholic Parish, in the Archdiocese of Blantyre, Malawi, has crowned a group of young people under the Young Christian Workers (YCW) for toping contributions at parish fundraising event.
WORLD CATHOLIC NEWS
- Day of prayer planned for 357 religious dead from COVID-19 in Spain September 26, 2020CNA Staff, Sep 26, 2020 / 04:23 pm (CNA).- The Spanish Conference of Religious (CONFER) has announced that September 29 will be observed as a day of prayer for the 357 religious who have died from the novel coronavirus during the pandemic in Spain. The conference invited religious communities to participate in the day of […]
- Russia seeks to bar foreign-educated religious leaders from teaching, preaching September 26, 2020CNA Staff, Sep 26, 2020 / 06:01 am (CNA).- Catholic leaders in Russia are expressing concern about a bill that would restrict the ability of Russian religious ministers who receive religious education abroad to teach or preach in Russia. The bill calls for “recertification” in Russian educational institutions of pastors and “personnel of religious organisations” […]
- NI health department warns of risks of unregulated at-home medical abortion September 25, 2020CNA Staff, Sep 25, 2020 / 03:01 pm (CNA).- Northern Ireland's Department of Health told a Belfast daily on Friday that women who self-administer medical abortions at home are at risk. Home administration of medical abortions is not permitted in Northern Ireland. “Women are at risk if they access unregulated abortion services,” the health department […]
- Germany’s Catholic bishops agree on uniform compensation system for abuse victims September 25, 2020CNA Staff, Sep 25, 2020 / 05:00 am (CNA).- Germany’s Catholic bishops agreed this week to a uniform system for compensation payments to abuse survivors. Bishop Georg Bätzing, president of the German bishops’ conference, announced the agreement Sept. 24 at the end of the bishops’ plenary meeting in Fulda, central Germany. Under the new system, […]
- Carlo Acutis beatification will be a 17-day celebration in Assisi September 24, 2020Rome Newsroom, Sep 24, 2020 / 10:00 am (CNA).- Assisi is celebrating the beatification of computer programming teen Carlo Acutis in October with more than two weeks of liturgies and events that the bishop hopes will be an evangelizing force for young people. “Now more than ever we believe that the example of Carlo -- […]