Vaticano
Pope donates quarter million dollars to ordinariate in England, Wales

CNS
(Carol Glatz) Pope Benedict XVI donated $250,000 to the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham to help support its clergy and work. The gift "is a clear sign of (the pope's) personal commitment to the work of Christian unity and the special place the ordinariate holds (...)

Vaticano
Rome: combating human trafficking conference   
ICN 

Men, women and children are bought and sold every day – transported into slavery for sexual exploitation, domestic servitude and forced farm/construction labour.  Human trafficking is real and now ranks as the second most profitable worldwide criminal enterprise (...)

Stati Uniti
Editorial: Vigilance on sex abuse must continue  
NCReporter 

(Editorial) Publication of the annual audit of dioceses and eparchies to determine how they are complying with the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People is intended to assure the Catholic faithful and the wider society that church leaders remain vigilant in (...)

Italia
Il cardinale Bagnasco agli universitari europei: cercate Gesù con sincerità

Radio Vaticana
Si è concluso, questa mattina a Roma, il II Incontro europeo degli universitari, che si è svolto nella facoltà di Economia dell’Università di Tor Vergata. Il Meeting, organizzato dalla Sezione Università del Consiglio delle Conferenze episcopali d’Europa (Ccee) e dall’Ufficio per (...)

Cile
Mapuche: Araucania Bishop Calls For Constitutional Recognition

umpo.org
Chilean Araucania Bishop, Manuel Camilo Vial, asked today [30 April 2012] constitutional recognition of the Mapuche people, after describing what is happening in indigenous communities as a serious situation. He expressed concern about police violence taking (...)

Italia
Il cardinale Sepe scrive al Mattino «Spezziamo subito la catena dei suicidi»  
Il Mattino 

«Spezziamo la dolorosa catena di suicidi! Fermiamo la mano dei nostri fratelli più deboli! Lo grido con forza a chi ha posti di responsabilità, a chi ha il controllo dei capitali, a chi governa e determina i processi economici, a chi è chiamato a mettere ordine nelle disastrate finanze (...)

Vaticano
Wikipedia entra in Vaticano. E parla di Pace   
korazym 

(Andrea Gagliarducci) “Certamente, Wikipedia cerca di essere il più possibile neutrale. Non c’è traccia di orientamento politico e religioso, e cerchiamo di fare in modo che non ce ne sia traccia nemmeno nelle voci della nostra enciclopedia. Eppure, c’è un senso di profondamente (...)

Svizzera
Küng praises Austria's rebel priests  
The Tablet 

The reform-minded group of Austrian clerics accused by the Pope at this year's Chrism Mass of trying to impose their own agenda on the Church has been awarded the Herbert Haag Foundation Award for Freedom in the Church. The leader of the Austrian Priests' (...)

Regno Unito
Youth obsession is harming elderly, warns Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams  
The Telegraph 

(John Bingham) People have developed wildly unrealistic expectations about health and happiness, rather than settling for simply being in “reasonable working order”, Dr Rowan Williams said. As a result “deep anxieties about ageing” in society have helped “marginalise (...)

Indonesia
Une communauté catholique et une organisation musulmane s’engagent pour la paix interreligieuse  
Eglises d'Asie  

Mardi 24 avril dernier, la communauté catholique Sant’Egidio a signé un accord avec la Muhammadiyah, deuxième plus importante organisation musulmane d’Indonésie, dans le cadre de la visite du ministre des Affaires étrangères italien Giulio Terzi à Djakarta. (...)

Irlanda
Brady under pressure as sex abuse victims talk of cover-up  
Irish Independent 

(Greg Harkin) Church leaders will come under renewed pressure when a BBC documentary is screened tonight outlining the widespread cover-up of clerical sex abuse here. 'This World: The Shame of the Catholic Church' is said to focus on Cardinal Sean Brady's role in an (...)

Spagna
St. John of Avila celebrated as soon-to-be Doctor of the Church

CNA
At the conclusion of their annual meeting on April 27, the bishops of Spain issued a statement lauding Pope Benedict XVI's upcoming official proclamation of St. John of Avila as a Doctor of the Church. The “originality” of St. John of Avila is found in his “consistent and ever-current (...)

Messico
Tendrían obispos de México auxiliares en lucha contra la pederastia  
Informador 

Las diócesis de México contarían con sacerdotes, consagrados y laicos especialistas en la atención a los menores víctimas de abusos sexuales por parte de clérigos, según un documento que deberá aprobar El Vaticano. Se trata de las líneas-guía aprobadas por el pleno (...)

Uganda
Archbishop defends church's involvement in politics  
New Vision 

(Juliet Lukwago) The Archbishop of Kampala, Dr. Cyprian Kizito Lwanga, has defended religious leaders’ involvement in civic affairs, saying their role is merely advisory. “Those who think that we are going to keep quiet about the day-to-day affairs of the nation are (...)

Pakistan
Pakistani Women Unite to Battle Religious Extremism

Huffington Post
(Malik Siraj Akbar) Sameena Imtiaz , a soft-spoken, educated Pakistani social worker, operates in the midst of U.S. drone strikes  and Taliban suicide bombings. She regularly travels to remote parts of her country in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA ) and the Khyber (...)

Nigeria
6 killed in central Nigeria village attacks  
AP 

(Ahmed Saka) Muslim herdsmen razed Christian villages early Tuesday along a central Nigerian plain where ethnic and religious violence remains rampant, killing at least six people and leaving others homeless, authorities said. Meanwhile, Nigeria's military said it carried (...)

Vaticano
Cardinal Martino and Lord Alton Unite in “Compassion” Plea for Blind Lawyer Chen  
DHI 

Cardinal Renato Raffaele Martino, Honorary President of the Rome-based Dignitatis Humanae Institute and Lord Alton, Chairman of the British Parliament's Cross-Party Working Group on Human Dignity, today met to discuss the situation of blind Chinese lawyer Chen (...)

Italia
FSSPX, Superiore del Distretto Italia: Istituto del Buon Pastore - La visita canonica, un monito  
FSSPX - Italia 

(don Pierpaolo Maria Petrucci) In questi ultimi giorni è apparso su internet il resoconto della visita canonica della commissione Ecclesia Dei all’Istituto del Buon Pastore. Questa comunità composta inizialmente da ex membri della Fraternità Sacerdotale San Pio X, fu riconosciuta (...)

(fr) Institut du Bon Pasteur : la visite canonique, un avertissement, par l'abbé Petrucci (La Porte Latine)

Stati Uniti
Religious freedom and contraception case headed to Supreme Court?

The Washington Post
(Mathew N. Schmalz) Cardinal Timothy Dolan recently raised the possibility that the Catholic bishops would fight the HHS mandate to the Supreme Court. Cardinal Dolan has shown himself to be a most able president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). (...)

Ecuador
12º Encontro da Pastoral Afroamericana

Sito dell'Episcopato brasiliano

A Pastoral Afroamericana está divulgando o seu 12º Encontro, que acontecerá em Guayaquil, no Equador, de 16 a 20 de julho. O tema do encontro será “A Pastoral Afroamericana e o Documento de Aparecida: desafios e esperanças na Igreja e na sociedade”. O Brasil tem (...)

Regno Unito
Archbishop Antonio Mennini, Pope's Representative, Calls For Christians, Jews, Muslims To Unite Against Gay Marriage

Huffington Post

Archbishop Antonio Mennini, a Vatican representative, has called onto other religious leaders to take a stand against allowing gay marriage in the United Kingdom. Archbishop Mennini serves as the "Apostolic Nuncio" to Great Britain, which means he serves as Vatican's (...)

Brasile
Peregrinação Nacional das Famílias reúne, em Aparecida, mais de 120 mil pessoas

Sito dell'Episcopato brasiliano
O Santuário Nacional acolheu neste final de semana, 28 e 29 de abril, o 2º Simpósio Nacional das Famílias e a 4ª Peregrinação Nacional das Famílias. Este ano, o Simpósio teve como tema "A Família: o trabalho e a festa", o mesmo do Encontro Mundial das Famílias, que será (...)

Angola
Embassy in Vatican Runs Workshop On Ten Years of Peace

AngoPress
Angolan ambassador to the Holy See, Armindo do Espírito Santo, said at the week-end in Rome, Italy, that unquestionably Angola is currently experiencing a new phase in its history after 10 years of peace. The Armindo do Espirito Santo stressed the importance of the occasion (...)

Stati Uniti
Gallup: Very religious voters back Romney

The Washington Post
By “Very religious voters, who say religion is a key part of daily life and who attend a house of worship almost every week or more often, account for 41% of voters and back Romney over Obama by 54% to 37%. Nonreligious voters, who make up about a third of the electorate, (...)

Italia
Lettera a Repubblica / Carron: «Comunione e Liberazione ha tradito lo spirito di don Giussani»  
Lettera 43 

«L'incontro con don Giussani ha significato per noi la possibilità di scoprire il cristianesimo come una realtà tanto attraente quanto desiderabile. Per questo è una grande umiliazione constatare che a volte per noi non è bastato il fascino dell'inizio per renderci liberi dalla tentazione di (...)

Lettera di don Julián Carrón, presidente della Fraternità di Comunione e Liberazione, al giornale La Repubblica ( Rassegna "Fine Settimana")

Regno Unito
Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham: Pope donates $250,000 to Ordinariate  
ordinariate.org.uk 

Pope Benedict XVI has donated $250,000 to support the work of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham. The gift will help establish the Ordinariate as a vibrant part of the Catholic Church in England and Wales.

Italia
Mob boss scandal a chance to 'learn Rome,' warts and all  
NCReporter 

(John L. Allen Jr.) When Pope John Paul II used to address seminarians studying in the Eternal City, he would often urge them to “learn Rome.” By that, he meant that just moving around the city, and especially spending time in its estimated 300 churches, can offer (...)

Vaticano
Jerusalem Post: Pope Benedict and the Society of St. Pius X   
The Jerusalem Post 

(Mark Weitzman) Despite the conciliatory efforts made by the Vatican toward the group, the Society has remained committed to its belief that it is correct, and that the established Church is the heretical institution. -- Recent news reports indicate that the reconciliation talks  (...)

Brasile
Início das inscrições da Jornada Mundial da Juventude será em julho

Sito dell'Episcopato brasiliano
A página oficial da Jornada Mundial da Juventude 2013, que será realizada na cidade do Rio de Janeiro (RJ), informa que as inscrições para o evento terão início no mês de julho deste ano através do portal oficial www.rio2013.com disponível em português e outros idiomas. O (...)

Vaticano
Pope says quest for peace must also be quest for truth

CNS
(Cindy Wooden) The quest for justice and peace will bear fruit only if it's also a quest for the truth about the human person, created by God and "endowed with intelligence and freedom, capable of knowing and loving," Pope Benedict XVI said. Intelligence enables people to (...)

Cuba
Declaración ante 1ro mayo, Día Internacional de los Trabajadores

Sito dell'Episcopato cubano
Al celebrar el 1ro. de Mayo, fecha muy significativa para el mundo obrero, el Movimiento Mundial de Trabajadores Cristianos (MMTC) reafirma su solidaridad y comunión con todos los hombres y mujeres que actualmente sufren graves injusticias en sus lugares de trabajo. (...)

Testigos del Evangelio del trabajo (Episcopado de de Chile)

Bulgaria
Russian Patriarch Recognizes Bulgarian Orthodox Church as the Oldest among Slav Peoples  
Standart 

It has been the first time in history that the official religious leader of Russia, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, has recognized the role of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church as the oldest one among the Slav peoples in Europe. During a mass at Sofia's St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, (...)

Africa
La Unión Africana (UA) condena ataques contra iglesias cristianas  
EFE - Prensa.com 

La Unión Africana (UA) condenó ayer los ataques contra iglesias cristianas que tuvieron lugar el domingo en Nigeria y en Kenia, y que dejaron más de 20 muertos y al menos 40 heridos. En un comunicado, la UA quiso además hacer llegar sus condolencias “a los gobiernos y los (...)

Perù
Obispo pide pena de muerte para terroristas  
ansa 

El obispo Luis Bambarén, ex titular de la Conferencia Episcopal Peruana, pidió hoy la pena de muerte para los integrantes de grupos ilegales que adoctrinan y utilizan niños en acciones delictivas y asesinatos, en alusión al reclutamiento por parte del grupo armado (...)

Stati Uniti
Weigel on LCWR  
NCReporter 

(Michael Sean Winters) Regular readers of my blog will know the very, very low regard in which I hold the opinions of George Weigel. He and his neo-con fellow RCs have tried to subvert Catholic social teaching for decades and still seem incapable of believing that the Master (...)

Europa
Sembra Assisi ma è Sarajevo

Vatican Insider
(Giacomo Galeazzi) Lo «spirito di Assisi» soffierà nella città europea in cui la religione è stata pretesto per il più grande massacro dalla fine della seconda guerra mondiale. A settembre il vescovo Irinej di Backam patriarca della Chiesa Ortodossa di Serbia, parteciperà al (...)

(en) It resembles Assisi, but it’s Sarajevo
(es) Parece Asís, pero es Sarajevo

Russia
Los ortodoxos rusos rezan para defender a la Iglesia del anticlericalismo

EFE - Univisión
Los fieles ortodoxos rusos rezaron hoy por todo el país para defender a la Iglesia Ortodoxa Rusa (IOR) de la que consideran la mayor campaña anticlerical desde la caída de la Unión Soviética. "Últimamente, nuestro país, nuestro pueblo, en su mayoría ortodoxo, ha sufrido (...)

Nigeria
Abducted Catholic Priest Regains Freedom

Daily Trust - AllAfrica
The kidnapped Catholic Priest of Onne in Eleme local government area of Rivers State, Rev. Father Nwika Gbinu, has regained freedom after one week in captivity in the hands of unknown gunmen. Daily Trust gathered yesterday that the Rev. Father was released Sunday night (...)

Italia
Un aeroporto di 790mila metri quadri per le famiglie del Papa

Vatican Insider
(Andrea Tornielli) Manca un mese all’arrivo di Benedetto XVI a Milano, in occasione del VII Incontro mondiale delle famiglie e questa mattina gli organizzatori dell’evento hanno presentato alla stampa l’area di 790mila metri quadrati all’interno del Parco Nord del capoluogo (...)

(en) 790 thousand sq. metre airport to host Pope’s families
(es) Un aeropuerto de 790 mil metros cuadrados para las familias del Papa

Vaticano
‘Loose canon’ on annulments may get tighter  
NCReporter 

(John L. Allen Jr.) A Rome conference in late April hinted that the Vatican may be moving towards a more restrictive posture on annulments, the procedure in church law for declaring a marriage null and void, which some critics refer to as “Catholic divorce.” If so, the fallout (...)

India
WCC consultation discusses issues of migrant workers in Gulf  
WCC 

An international consultation on “Ecumenical Advocacy for the Protection of the Human Rights of Migrant Workers in the Arabian Gulf Region” is currently taking place from 29 April to 2 May at the Santhigiri Ashram in Kerala, India. The consultation was organized by the (...)

Portogallo
1 de maio: Trabalhadores cristãos denunciam «graves injustiças»

Agência Ecclesia
O Movimento Mundial de Trabalhadores Cristãos (MMTC) denunciou as “graves injustiças” do mundo laboral, numa mensagem por ocasião do 1.º de maio, em que se critica o atual “modelo mercantilista”. “A precariedade laboral, o desemprego estruturante e (...)

- Juventude Operária Católica critica agravamento da precariedade e desemprego
- Desemprego: Comissão Justiça e Paz de Coimbra condena «violência insuportável»

Stati Uniti
Fustigan a jerarca católico durante juicio en EEUU

Terra.com.co
Un hombre desató el lunes su cólera contra la Iglesia Católica cuando, con la mirada fija en un jerarca religioso, relató en un tribunal de Filadelfia la manera en que, cuando niño, fue forzado a tener actos sexuales con un sacerdote. El hombre, de 47 años, fulminó con la mirada a (...)

(en) Pa. accuser unleashes fury at Catholic Church (Maryclaire Dale, AP)

Vaticano
L'austerity del Vaticano, pronti i tagli per 3 mila dipendenti  
Il Monsignore - La Repubblica 

"In Vaticano sono state fatte troppe assunzioni con sistemi discutibili e criteri poco chiari. Ma, quel che è peggio, tra chiamate dirette e finti concorsi, il nepotismo l'ha fatta da padrone. Ora è tempo di tagli...". Primo maggio in tono minore anche Oltretevere, dove la Festa del lavoro (...)

Vaticano
"Tenemos que restaurar la identidad cristiana de algunas Cáritas en Europa": Card. Robert Sarah  
Gaudium Press 

"Dar el alimento no basta", aseguró el Cardenal Robert Sarah, Presidente del Consejo Pontificio Cor Unum, responsable de la promoción de las actividades de la Iglesia en favor de los más necesitados. El prelado expuso, en entrevista con el semanario Paraula de la Arquidiócesis (...)

India
Kerala bishops demand decent salaries for nurses  
UCAnews

The KCBC message comes in the backdrop of nurses strike in several hospitals around the country for fair salaries and decent working conditions. -- The Kerala Catholic Bishops' Council (KCBC) has come out in support of nursing community that has been demanding fair (...)

El Salvador
Arzobispo sugiere a magisterio que siga en mesa de diálogo  
DiarioCoLatino 

El arzobispo de San Salvador, Monseñor José Luis Escobar Alas, sugirió a los maestros que convocaron este domingo a una huelga en la semana del 16 al 22 de junio, que sigan en la mesa del diálogo con el Gobierno. Ayer, tres gremiales de maestros (...)

Vaticano
Festa di San Giuseppe Lavoratore. Il Papa: obiettivo prioritario, garantire l’accesso al lavoro  
Radio Vaticana 

Oggi, primo maggio, la Chiesa celebra la Festa di San Giuseppe Lavoratore. La ricorrenza, istituita da Pio XII nel 1955 per dare un senso cristiano alla Giornata internazionale del lavoro, cade in un momento di grave crisi che vede, secondo gli ultimi dati, oltre 200 milioni (...)

Pakistan
Pakistan: “Make me a channel of your peace” - an interview with auxillary Bishop Shah of Lahore  
ACN 

Pakistan is a country with a population of 160 million of which 95% are Muslim and Christians constitute a little less than 3% of the total population. The rise of militant Islam over the last years has given cause for concern where Christians feel insecure if not outright fearful. (...)

Brasile
Mensagem da CNBB aos trabalhadores e trabalhadoras

Sito dell'Episcopato brasiliano
A Conferência Nacional dos Bispos do Brasil-CNBB, no ensejo das comemorações do Dia Mundial do Trabalho, neste 1º de Maio, dirige sua mensagem de solidariedade e apoio a todos os trabalhadores e trabalhadoras do Brasil. A celebração desta data nos sugere, antes de tudo, (...)

Colombia
Churches in Colombia support victims of land dispute  
WCC 

(Marcelo Schneider) While drug production and trafficking are the main problems in Colombia, it would be misleading to think these are the only ones. Land grabs in the country serve as the pivotal reason behind armed conflicts and human rights violations. In this situation, (...)

Messico
Feliz día del niño (los obispos piden perdón por los abusos)

Sito dell'Episcopato messicano
A todos los Niños de México en la celebración de su día. (...) Reciban un cordial saludo de todos los Obispos de México, en este día tan especial en que nuestro Padre del cielo nos permite felicitarlos. Nos dirigimos a ustedes con toda la delicadeza, ternura y respeto con que (...)

Mondo
Un panorama des discriminations anti-chrétiennes  
Amnesty International 

(Henri Tincq) N’abusons pas du terme de « christianophobie », mais l’évidence s’impose, on constate des discriminations croissantes envers les chrétiens dans le monde. Dans le témoignage des Églises, comme dans les rapports du Vatican, d’Amnesty International ou du (...)

Vaticano
Un año de la beatificación de Wojtyla con la mirada puesta en la canonización

Efe
(Juan Lara) Miles de jóvenes se reúnen hoy en Tor Vergata, en las afueras de Roma, en una vigilia de plegarias con motivo del primer aniversario de la beatificación de Juan Pablo II, que se cumple mañana, 1 de mayo, con la mirada puesta en la canonización del primer papa polaco (...)

Vaticano
Il codice genetico della teologia cattolica / Per leggere il documento della Commissione teologica internazionale   
L'Osservatore Romano

(Serge Thomas Bonino*) Sospinta dallo Spirito, la Chiesa sta oggi mobilitando tutte le sue energie in vista della “nuova evangelizzazione”. La teologia cattolica non può restare al margine di questo movimento di fondo. Tuttavia, per svolgere al meglio il suo ruolo insostituibile nella missione della Chiesa, è tenuta a essere fedele alla sua natura specifica. Ora, nel contesto attuale, diversi fattori, sia interni che esterni, offuscano la giusta percezione di questa natura.

Vaticano
Papa esclarece tradução litúrgica da fórmula de consagração na missa

Agência Ecclesia
Bento XVI enviou uma mensagem aos bispos católicos da Alemanha, determinando que a expressão latina ‘pro multis’ seja traduzida como "por muitos" em todas as traduções da oração eucarística, proferida na celebração da missa. A expressão aparece quando o sacerdote (...)