2023-07-12 09:42:15 Matraverebely-Szentkut in northern Hungary is one of the most important and well-known Marian pilgrimage sites in the country. At the weekend, around 600 Roma from 30 settlements were there on a pilgrimage that was all about Roma culture. Officially, 300,000 Roma live in Hungary, 60 percent of whom are Roman Catholic. Hungary’s Bishops’ … Read more
2023-05-08 15:14:02 The plenary session of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors ended in Rome on May 6. The commitment to the fight against online pedophilia was highlighted. A fund fed by contributions from Episcopal Conferences has also been set up to initiate capacity building programs aimed at guaranteeing assistance for victims in … Read more
2023-04-30 20:53:00 Sunday April 30, 2023 “was in a lot of pain” Pope talks about his stay in the clinic Pope Francis on his visit to Hungary. (Foto: picture alliance / NurPhoto) The pope has been suffering from health problems for a long time. Shortly before Easter, Francis’ hospitalization has worried Catholics worldwide. Now the … Read more
The Maryland District Attorney’s Office (USA) published this Wednesday a 456-page report documenting the sexual abuse committed by 156 members of the Catholic clergy against more than 600 child victims in the Archdiocese of Baltimore over the past 8 decades. “From the 1940s to 2002, more than 100 priests and other archdiocese employees committed horrific … Read more
After four years of investigation, the Maryland attorney general’s office released a report Wednesday into alleged child abuse and sexual misconduct in the Archdiocese of Baltimore. According to the report, more than 300 people contacted the Maryland attorney’s office to report misconduct and sexual abuse by 156 priests and Catholic church figures between 1940 and … Read more
After three days of treatment for bronchitis, Pope Francis is due out of hospital on Saturday April 1 and return to the Vatican where he will preside over Palm Sunday Mass the next day, marking the start of Easter celebrations. On Friday, the 86-year-old Argentinian Jesuit paid a surprise visit to the pediatric oncology ward … Read more
“The gift of indulgence: at the heart of the mystery of the Redemption”: this is the title of the lectio of Cardinal Piacenza, Major Penitentiary, offered to the participants in the XXXIII Course on the Internal Forum, which will be held until 24 of March. Fraternal dialogue, authentic spiritual paternity and evangelical parrhesia: the ways … Read more
Nicaragua still a little more isolated on the international scene? The country is considering suspending relations with the Vatican, the Nicaraguan Foreign Ministry said on Sunday (March 12) after pope francis considered that this Central American country was “a crude dictatorship”. “Faced with information disseminated by sources linked to Catholic Churchthe Government of Reconciliation and … Read more