Church authorities are expressing shock and sadness over the killing of Shabhaz Bhatti, Pakistan's lone minister for minorities, who was gunned down in a hail of bullets as he left his mother's home in Islamabad yesterday morning.
Norma Jean Coon, who believed herself to have been ordained to the diaconate in 2007 has had a change of heart and has publicly posted a document of renunciation.
A retired couple from St. Monica Catholic Church in Santa Monica who were among four Americans shot to death by Somali pirates on Feb. 22 are being remembered as a "wonderful part" of their parish community.
A magnitude 6.3 earthquake that struck ChristChurch, New Zealand on Feb. 22 and left at least 75 dead, seriously damaged the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament and put the diocese of Christchurch "out of action."
The prefect of the Congregation for Eastern Churches is calling upon the present ruling authorities in Egypt to "protect and defend the country's inhabitants, in particular the Christians, against insecurity, attacks and persecutions that there might be against them."
A new report on religious life in America released this month by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has once again confirmed that the thriving orders are those that espouse the habit and adherence to the Magisterium while those that do not are dwindling.
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