Catholic News Service Archives

Vatican calls on China to let bishop exercise his ministry

Tensions in Vatican-China relations have increased after a bishop was placed in government custody prohibiting him from assuming leadership of his diocese. Vatican spokesmen have said that such episodes do not foster the kind of understanding that the Church wants to reach with the Chinese government.

Auxiliary bishop from Slovakia named apostolic administrator of Eparchy in Ohio

A bishop from Slovakia, fluent in five languages including English has been named by Pope Francis as the apostolic administrator of the Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Parma, Ohio. Auxiliary Bishop Milan Lach of Presov will be the first European-born bishop to be appointed to the eparchy since its founding in 1969.

At last Mass before summer break, Pope warns against horoscopes, fortune telling

“A Christian does not have a horoscope to see the future,” the pope said. “He doesn’t go to a fortune teller with a crystal ball or have his palm read. No, no! He doesn’t know where he is going. He is guided,” Pope Francis said in his last homily during morning Mass at Domus Sanctae Marthae before summer break.

Bishops: Loss of affordable care under GOP plan ‘simply unacceptable’
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- June 27, 2017
After the Congressional Budget Office found that the Senate health care bill would leave 22 million more people without coverage, Bishop Frank Dewane, chair of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, said that “the loss of affordable access for millions of people is simply unacceptable.”
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Vatican announces pope will attend reconciliation events in Colombia
- Catholic News Service, Global Church
- June 26, 2017
Colombian Vice President Oscar Naranjo said in an interview published June 23 in El Tiempo newspaper that that Pope Francis’ September trip comes at a time in the country “when the discussion stops being about how to win the war, but how to achieve peace.”
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Venezuela risks becoming Caribbean ‘North Korea,’ former leaders say
- Catholic News Service, Global Church
- June 26, 2017
Jorge Quiroga, former president of Bolivia, and Andres Pastrana, former president of Colombia, met with the Vatican’s Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, on June 23. The men were grateful for Parolin’s call for humanitarian aid, free elections and the release of political prisoners, and expressed hope the international community would “insist and persist” on the Vatican’s recommendations.
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