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For the 400th Anniversary of the Foundation of the Sacred Congregation ‘de Propaganda Fide’

BERLIN (Reuters) - A German Catholic priest was sentenced to 12 years in prison for child sexual abuse, a German court said on Friday, the latest in a string of cases that have shaken the German Catholic Church.

A German Catholic priest was sentenced to 12 years in prison for child sexual abuse, a German court said on Friday, the latest in a string of cases that have shaken the German Catholic Church.

Pope Francis gives a Regina Coeli address at the Vatican on May 2, 2021 / Daniel Ibáñez/CNA.Vatican City, Feb 21, 2022 / 12:00 pm (CNA).According to a canon law expert, the two motu proprios recently promulgated by Pope Francis could signal a slowdown in the process of defining and publishing the long-awaited blueprint for the reform of the Roman Curia.Geraldina Boni, a canon law professor at the University of Bologna and a consultant of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts since 2011,...

Pope Francis gives a Regina Coeli address at the Vatican on May 2, 2021 / Daniel Ibáñez/CNA. Vatican City, Feb 21, 2022 / 12:00 pm (CNA). According to a canon law expert, the two motu proprios recently promulgated by Pope Francis could signal a...

Dilecta Mea — About the Holy Apostolic MassViganò's heartfelt message to priests and bishops You who permit yourselves to prohibit the Holy Aposto...

Faith and reason, same-sex relationships and blessings   In 1998, Pope John Paul II, a philosopher as well as a theologian, promulgated an encyclical entitled  Fides et Ratio (‘Faith and Reason’). It had appeal to me because our very wise Jesuit moral theology professor always drummed into us that any pronouncements on moral theology from Rome must appeal to reason as well as to tradition and authority. Otherwise, they will have no currency with the people of God. The opening line of Joh...

When Great Britain took over Malta in 1813, it inherited a country in which censorship was the rule, and the rule had no exceptions. The Order of Malta was generally a benign but wholly autocratic sovereign which exercised total control over anything the people were authorised to know and repeat. The ruler only allowed the public to know what the state believed it should be allowed to. Within Malta, the Order achieved this by licensing only one printing press, and permitting this to print solel...