Catholic cardinals

The cardinal also called on the authorities to investigate the crime and not allow it - and other crimes in Mexico - to go unpunished. According to the Catholic Multimedia Center, at least four priests have been slain in Mexico this year, and 23 have been murdered since 2012. On Wednesday, Father Ruben ...

Tauran is viewed as an emphatic promoter of continued dialogue between Islam and the Roman Catholic Church. He met King Salman of Saudi Arabia in the capital city of Riyadh on April 18. For Saudi officials, the Cardinal comes after Beshara Rai, the chief of the Maronite Church of Lebanon, met both ...

Saudi Arabia's King Salman has met French cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran during the first visit to the kingdom by such a senior Catholic authority, according to Saudi state-run media. It followed a flurry of similar gatherings between senior Saudi figures and representatives of other Christian traditions in recent ...

Attempts to make the church smaller and more pure will only achieve one of the two—and it is probably not the latter. That was the message from Cardinal Joseph Tobin in a talk at Villanova University on April 12, during which he urged Catholics to resist allowing “the individualism that permeates our ...

The cardinal spoke April 7 to several hundred Catholics concerned about what they see as growing confusion in the Catholic Church, particularly because of the ... Along with two cardinals now deceased, in 2016 they released a set of "dubia" or questions on which they asked Pope Francis for clarification.

Rome — The two remaining cardinals of a group of four that publicly challenged Pope Francis over his apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia in 2016 have reaffirmed their opposition to the possibility of the Catholic Church allowing divorced and remarried persons to receive Communion. Approving a short ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - An Australian magistrate on Thursday closed a monthlong court hearing of evidence on whether the most senior Vatican cleric ever charged in the Catholic Church sex abuse crisis will stand trial. Belinda Wallington told the Melbourne Magistrates Court she would make her ...

Cardinal John Ribat of Papua New Guinea delivered an urgent message on “Climate Change, Sustainability and the Common Good” at the College of ... of Charity of New York's Office of Peace, Justice and Integrity of Creation, and the Metro New York chapter of the Global Catholic Climate Movement.

Cardinal Tong said the new Chinese regulations are only aimed not only at Catholics but at other religions too, including Buddhists and Protestants. Two days after giving this interview, Cardinal Tong welcomed participants to the symposium that was held in Rome for the first time, in what observers read as ...

By Godfrey Olukya • Catholic News Service • Posted March 27, 2018. ARU, Congo (CNS) — The leader of Catholic Church in Congo warned young people during a Palm Sunday Mass against being manipulated by politicians and advised them to take the country's destiny into their own hands, United Nations radio ...

WASHINGTON — In an op-ed published Friday in The Wall Street Journal, Cardinal Timothy Dolan of the Archdiocese of New York lamented that the Democratic Party's shifting principles have effectively shut out and alienated orthodox Catholics. Dolan cited the Democrats' current opposition to ...

Drawing on the examples of two notable New York Catholics - John Hughes, the city's first archbishop, and Dolores Grier, an African American who became the archdiocese's first lay woman vice chancellor - Dolan said these individuals exemplified what it meant to be public servants who fought for civil ...

In an op-ed published Friday in the Wall Street Journal, Cardinal Timothy Dolan of the Archdiocese of New York lamented that the Democratic Party's shifting principles have effectively shut out and alienated orthodox Catholics. Dolan cited the Democrat's current opposition to school choice programs and ...

MUMBAI, India - Cardinal Patrick D'Rozario led Catholics in Bangladesh in the celebrations of Bengali New Year, observed on April 14. The day is called Pahela Baishakh on the Bengali calendar and is celebrated in Bangladesh and the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura, Assam and other areas with ...