Amid pandemic, future of many Catholic schools is in doubt
- Aug 10, 2020
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NGO’s programs in Brazil, Kenya produce masks to help contain COVID-19
- Jul 14, 2020
With COVID-19 contagions climbing in several countries around the world, an Italian NGO with ties to the Catholic Church has implemented projects for the mass production of masks to help the most vulnerable populations.
Inmate lived inspiring Catholic life behind bars, ‘serving God, not time’
- Jun 27, 2020
In 1993, 39-year-old nuclear engineer Hal Elkins hit the bottle and fell into a jealous rage and shot his girlfriend, Kathryn Linn, and the man she was with, Marvin Eugene Mayer. Within a decade, other inmates would be calling Elkins “the Bishop of OSP.”
Pope highlights prisoners’ unique ‘Way of the Cross’ on Good Friday
- Apr 10, 2020
Meditations for Pope Francis’s “Via Crucis” ceremony on Good Friday were written by prisoners and their families, as well as crime victims and their families.
After Italian prison riots due to coronavirus clampdown, Pope prays for prisoners
- Mar 11, 2020
As the number of dead inmates in Italian prisons climbs due to riots related to coronavirus restrictions and as the Vatican tightens its own measures, Pope Francis on Wednesday offered a prayer for prisoners suffering because of the outbreak.
Pell changes prison location after drone attempts to photograph him
- Jan 12, 2020
Disgraced Cardinal George Pell has been transferred from a Melbourne prison after a drone illegally flew overhead in a suspected attempt to photograph the famous inmate, a newspaper reported on Sunday.
Cameroon bishops visit prisons on Christmas, as Church prays for peace
- Dec 28, 2019
Cameroon’s Catholic clergy made a special effort to visit the West African country’s prisons on Christmas Day.
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