by | Jun 16, 2016 | CCRI News
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Local bishops have an obligation to welcome new movements and communities and guide them, while the groups have an obligation to obey the local bishop and avoid the appearance of setting up a parallel church, said a new Vatican document. The...
by | Jun 11, 2016 | CCRI News
(Vatican Radio) It was announced on Friday Pope Francis has decided to raise the celebration of the memorial of St. Mary Magdalene to the dignity of a liturgical Feast. In the modern Church calendar, saints may be commemorated with a memorial (optional or...
by | Jun 8, 2016 | CCRI News
Vatican City, 4 June 2016 – Today, following a proposal made by the College of Cardinals, the Holy Father has approved ad experimentum the statute of the new dicastery for the laity, family and life, which will merge from 1 September 2016 the existing Pontifical...
by | May 16, 2016 | CCRI News
Catholic News Service reports that when Pope Francis met members of the International Union of Superiors General, the leadership group for superiors of women’s orders, on May 12, he accepted a proposal that he establish a commission to study the role of New...
by | May 12, 2016 | CCRI News
Joshua McElwee is reporting this in the NCR today Pope Francis has announced he will create a commission to study the possibility of allowing women to serve as deacons in the Catholic church, signaling an historic openness to the possibility of ending the global...
by | May 12, 2016 | CCRI News
We are pleased to bring you news of a vibrant new website: A Church for our Daughters. This is a grassroots campaign by more than two dozen organisations in the United States seeking signatures to their petition to the US Bishops’ Conference for their June...
