#Bishops

Nordic countries: the bishops’ assembly opening in Prague. Synodal process and limits on Traditional Latin Mass on the agenda

Lithuania: in Vilnius, card. Parolin will ordain mgr. Kulbokas, new nuncio to Ukraine, bishop

Netherlands: Mgr. Smeets, Bishop of Roermond, diagnosed with brain cancer. Solidarity from the whole Dutch Church

Canada, unmarked graves. First Nations chiefs: ‘We will not stop until we find all of our children”

Canada has plunged into the depths of a new horrific discovery. This time with “unthinkable” numbers. A total of 751…

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