The Transformers star, Shia LaBeouf, converted to Catholicism after studying the life of “Padre Pio” at the Franciscan Capuchin Monastery to play the “Pio.”
Pope Francis appeals for the people of Pakistan hit by devastating flooding, and prays for the people of Ukraine and all those who suffer because of war.
Pope Francis on Saturday appointed Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle as his special envoy for the upcoming and biggest gathering of Asian bishops in Thailand’s capital of Bangkok.
All the Cardinals of the world are in Rome, first time in years, to reflect on the pope’s recent constitution on the Roman curia, Praedicate Evangelium.
With the creation of six new cardinals for Asia on 27 August, the number of cardinals born or carrying out their ministry in Asia rises to 21 among the 132 electors who could be called to take part in a future conclave for the election of a pontiff.
WCC 11th Assembly will take place in Karlsruhe, Germany, from 31 August to 8 September, under the theme "Christ's love moves the world to reconciliation and unity.”
"The theme 'Memory and Identity' is to get us deep into our culture and to the world where so many people are interacting online that we can be cross-cultural," says Bishop Oliver SCHMITTHAEUSLER, apostolic vicar of Phnom Penh and founder of the Saint Paul Institute in Cambodia.
The Synod of the Syro-Malabar Major Archiepiscopal Church, gathered at Mount St. Thomas, Kerala, having received prior Papal Assent, canonically elected three new bishops.
The Catholic Church thanked and honoured the apostolic nuncio Archbishop George Kocherry for his dedicated pastoral service to the local Church in the country.
Synodality is ultimately about mission says Fr Stephen Bevans SVD , in a major mission conference and deliver a presentation to the SVD community in Australia.
