Nicaraguan Church leaders call out Ortega regime for human rights abuses
- Dec 10, 2019
Franciscan Father Michael Scanlan, who led the Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio, from 1974 until 2000, died on Jan. 7 at 85. He both embodied and helped shape an entire era in American Catholic life, defined by what he called “dynamic orthodoxy.”
Salvatore Martinez, the first lay president of Italy’s largest Catholic charismatic group, says that under St. John Paul II and Benedict XVI, the hierarchical and charismatic dimensions of the Church were seen as “co-essential,” while under Francis they’re also understood as “co-missionary.”
Attempting to bring a sprawling and sometimes unruly charismatic movement in the Catholic Church under tighter control, Archbishop Cyprian Kizito Lwanga of Kampala, Uganda, has issued new restrictions that include a ban on shouting, falling and rolling around on the ground during prayer services. Issued in late March, the new
ROME — Pope Francis styled anti-Christian violence around the world as a force bringing the churches closer together, saying on Friday that “for persecutors, we Christians are all one.” The pope’s comments came to a group of Catholic charismatics, who practice a high-octane style of praise and worship associated with
When Alvaro Soares moved to the Boston area from Brazil in 1999, he found himself invited to a “Life in the Spirit” seminar at a local Catholic church — a meeting for prayer, worship, and discussion that promised to renew his faith. A priest divided everyone into small groups. Four
CASERTA, ITALY— Pope Francis traveled today to the southern Italian city of Caserta to meet some old Protestant friends and to pray with them, a trip that culminated with an apology from the pope for persecution of Christianity’s burgeoning Pentecostal movement by the Catholic Church. “I ask for your forgiveness