Amid an ongoing back and forth between the Vatican and the German bishops over a controversial new ecclesial body, four of the nation’s prelates have refused to participate in the planning process, opting instead to wait for direction from Rome.
Mexico's Episcopal Conference released a statement on Apr. 24 criticizing the “culture of death and violence” connected to drug cartels and disseminated on social media, including the “distorted cults like the one to Santa Muerte (Saint Death).”
In a pastoral letter addressed to all Scottish Catholics, the bishops of Scotland have called for people to urge the country’s parliament to reject proposed legislation legalizing assisted suicide.
Despite its natural wealth of Congo-Brazzaville, a leading Catholic charity official says the people are very poor, “not only financially, but morally, too.”
In response to the growing number of Hispanic Catholics in the United States, St. Mary’s Seminary in Baltimore will soon offer a specialized track where a seminarian will focus the last four years of their priestly education on Hispanic ministry.