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The Canadian bishops’ apologies and sorrow: “As a Church, we have failed.” But this is not enough for Prime Minister Trudeau

Yesterday marked the National Day of Indigenous Peoples in Canada. The Day is celebrated every year on June 21st, the…

Austria: Bishops’ Conference, Plenary Assembly in Mariazell from 14 to 16 June. Synodality, pandemic, assisted suicide on the agenda

Austria: Bishops reaffirm “no” to assisted suicide. “Serve life, not death!”

Pope Francis: Synod of Bishops from October 2021 to October 2023, in the Vatican and in local churches

At the behest of Pope Francis, the next Synod of Bishops will be a three-year journey, with the people of…

Hundreds of priests, bishops, priests and nuns killed by Covid-19. Msgr. Lozano (CELAM): “Many were infected in low-income neighbourhoods and in hospitals. They brought consolation to the poor”

How many priests have died in Latin America and the Caribbean? Several hundred for sure, and most certainly close to…

Mons. Overbeck (COMECE) ,“it was not a failure in the workings of the world but a challenge to our faith and to the meaning of life”

The shocking number of deaths from COVID-19 in Europe in this year of pandemic: over 900,000 not counting 125,000 in…

Croatia-Bosnia and Herzegovina: joint plenary of Bishops on aid to quake victims, solidarity initiatives, new Missal in Croatian

Germany: Beate Gilles elected new secretary general of Bishops’ Conference. “Challenging and exciting times for the Church”

Survey on young people and the pandemic. “‘They are not a generation sacrificed to COVID-19 but the future and hope of the world”

The French bishops, concerned about the impact of the pandemic and of the related confinement on young people, commissioned an…

Serbia: Catholic Bishops send their best wishes to Porfirije, the new Patriarch. “We are most willing to give our fullest support for the progress of our Churches”

Germany: Bishops’ Assembly. Church’s state of health, assisted suicide, ecumenism, abuse and synodal journey on the agenda