An English bishop has criticised Catholic churches that remain locked for most of the day, and called on them to stay open like their Anglican counterparts.
Pope Francis has said it is a 'sin' to allow fear of immigrants to determine our actions, adding that while the fear itself is not a sin, 'the sin is to refuse to encounter the other, the different, the neighbour'.
Pope Francis heads to South America today for a visit that is supposed to be about peace, supporting indigenous people and protecting the environment. But instead he has facing bomb threats, protests and anger about clerical sex abuse.
Pope Francis is set to meet with victims of Chile's oppressive military dictatorship on his upcoming visit to the country. As protests over the clerical child abuse scandal continue to flare in the Chilean Catholic Church, the Vatican said the Pope hasn't ruled out meeting with clerical sex abuse survivors too.
Pope Francis has ordered the Vatican takeover of a conservative Catholic society in Peru whose founder is accused of sexually and physically abusing children and former members of the group.
Pastors who preach one thing and do another are harmful and, like the scribes and Pharisees of old, they end up leading a double life when they detach themselves from God and his people, the Pope said in his sermon yesterday during Mass at the Domus Sanctae Marthae in the Vatican.
Being a soldier for Christ has landed evangelist Billy Graham in the most admired men in the world list for the 61st time, and his son Franklin could not be more proud of the achievements he has made for God.
The battle between Pope Francis and conservative Catholics over Communion for the divorced and remarried continued this week when another bishop signed a statement reaffirming traditional Church teaching on the issue and endorsed by five other bishops and a Cardinal.