Father Thierry Laurent was reprimanded by his superiors for having celebrated the 70th anniversary of the death of the anti-Semitic essayist. “Inappropriate and provocative political content”, according to the archdiocese. In ecclesiastical parlance this is called a reprimand. Like at school. In common language, this is similar to a warning addressed to an employee. Pastor … Read more
Police of Nicaragua entered this Friday by force into the Episcopal Palace of the Diocese of Matagalpa (north) and arrested Bishop Rolando Álvarez, as well as seven of his collaboratorswho were confined and held since last August 4. “Urgent! Right now the National Police has entered the Episcopal Curia of our Diocese of Matagalpa“, reported … Read more
Since the beginning of the year, evasive press releases making public the dismissal of Congolese priests from the clerical state have attracted attention: nearly a dozen in a few months, coming from several of the 48 dioceses. The last, at the end of March, excluding three priests from the Tshumbe diocese, in the center of … Read more
The island of Luzon 2022 is going better for the Philippines than 2021: since February 10, tourists have been allowed to enter the West Pacific island kingdom again – and in April the country’s church will celebrate 500 years of missionary work. 81 percent of the 108 million Filipinos belong to the Roman Catholic Church; … Read more