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The new translation of the ritual book also affects any other distribution of holy Communion outside of Mass, which may take place for pastoral needs.
The Oct. 11 meeting is the fourth meeting the Ukrainian president has had with the Holy Father since the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine war in 2022.
This year’s event will kick off Oct. 12 with an in-person conference at St. Mary of Sorrows Church in Fairfax, Virginia, followed by a virtual speaker series.
A church of the Melkite Greek Catholic Eparchy of Tyre, Lebanon, has been hit by a missile from Israeli airstrikes in the country’s south, killing at least eight people.
St. Daniel Comboni, the pioneer Catholic Bishop of Central Africa described as “one of the great missionaries in the Church's history” had a “vision” to empower the people of God in Africa through formal education, a Catholic Bishop in South Sudan has said.
The ongoing second session of the multi-year Synod on Synodality can facilitate the provision of some knowledge of the actual situation of the embattled Cabo Delgado, Mozambique’s Northernmost Province, where a protracted insurgency has taken a toll on human life and livelihoods, a Catholic Archbishop from the Southern African nation has said.
Thursday, October 10 has been set as the start of “Novena prayer for peace” in Burkina Faso’s Catholic Diocese of Fada N'Gourma following a series of terrorist attacks targeting various facilities, including a Catholic Parish.
Much more can be achieved in addressing the challenges Ghana is grappling with, including environmental problems and gaps in governance, when synergy between members of the Ghana Catholic Bishops Conference (GCBC) and their counterparts in the Conference of Major Superiors of Religious - Ghana (CMSR-GH) is fostered, a Catholic Priest in the country has said.
According to Cardinal Kurt Koch, the imperative for all Christian churches to journey, pray, and cooperate is Jesus’ own priestly prayer recorded in John 17.
Fr. Pier Luigi Maccalli, the Italian Catholic missionary Priest who spent two years in captivity in Mali after he was kidnapped in Niger has shared the joy of going back to the West African country for the first time following his release.
The pioneer Local Ordinary of the recently erected Angola’s Catholic Diocese of Ganda has assured the people of God of “continuity” with the country’s Catholic Diocese of Benguela, from which it was carved out.
Members of the Justice Development and Peace Commission (JDPC) of Nigeria’s Catholic Diocese of Maiduguri are reaching out to victims of recent floods, which devastated communities, destroyed properties, and left many without their livelihoods.
The people of God put their trust and hope in those being admitted to Holy Orders, expecting them to bear “abundant fruits of holiness,” Bishop Emílio Sumbelelo of the Catholic Diocese of Viana in Angola has said.
Continuing his catechesis on the relationship between the Holy Spirit and the Church, the pope emphasized that unity cannot be “achieved on the drawing board.”
Delegates at the ongoing second session of the multi-year Synod on Synodality are fostering fraternity in what Archbishop Ignace Bessi Dogbo of the Catholic Archdiocese of Abidjan in Ivory Coast, one of 21 newly named Cardinals, has described as “an extraordinary atmosphere” and “truly a Church atmosphere.”
Fr. Christophe Badjogou Komla, a Togolese Catholic Priest incardinated in Cameroon’s Catholic Diocese of Yagoua, was shot and killed by alleged criminals on the night of Monday, October 7 in the Catholic Archdiocese of Yaoundé in the Central African nation.
The newly installed Local Ordinary of Mali’s Catholic Archdiocese of Bamako, Archbishop Robert Cissé, has expressed his commitment to realizing his role of shepherding the people of God, remaining close to them.
At the burial of Alexandre Cardinal do Nascimento, Angola’s first and world’s oldest Cardinal, the Catholic Church leader, who died on September 28 has been remembered as a man who was firm in his Christian faith and loyal in his service to the people of God under his pastoral care and to society in general.
“When the Holy Father is talking about peripheries, I think the peripheries are moving. ... Maybe the peripheries are moving towards Europe,” Archbishop Kikuchi said.
The Local Ordinary of the Catholic Diocese of Benguela in Angola has reminded women Religious of their identity as Consecrated, emphasizing the calling to the virtue of humility.