Blessed are the leaks: Italian home plays host to another ‘weeping’ statue
Figurine sits in front garden of family that previously claimed to have seen tears of blood from another statue In the front garden of the...
Category : Christianity
London-born boy who died aged 15 to become first millennial saint
Second posthumous miracle attributed to leukaemia victim Carlo Acutis, qualifying him for canonisation A London-born teenager who died of leukaemia aged 15 is to become...
Vatican tightens rules on supernatural phenomena in crackdown on hoaxes
Updated guidelines strip bishops of power to recognise ‘supernatural’ nature of purportedly divine events Apparitions of the Virgin Mary and weeping statues have been part...
Shadow of war hangs over Orthodox Easter as Zelenskiy and Putin mark holiday
Russian president attends service led by one of his staunchest backers while Zelenskiy asserts God is on Kyiv’s side Orthodox Easter services in Ukraine and...
Insider art: Vatican sets up Biennale pavilion at Venice women’s jail
Pope Francis to attend installation that includes short film featuring Zoë Saldaña and Giudecca inmates Originally a convent dating to the 13th century, and once...
Pope presides over Easter Vigil service after skipping Good Friday procession
Appearance comes a day after last-minute decision to miss previous service to ‘conserve his health’ Pope Francis presided over the Vatican’s somber Easter Vigil service...
Italy’s ruling party drafts law to ‘safeguard’ school nativity scenes
Brothers of Italy party plans law to ‘protect’ Christian traditions and prevent schools ‘modifying the essence of Christmas’ Italy’s ruling far-right party has identified a...
Pope Francis dismisses conservative Texas bishop and critic Joseph Strickland
Rare move comes after years of criticism from Strickland, a strong supporter of former US president Donald Trump Pope Francis has dismissed a bishop in...
Pope accepts resignation of Polish bishop after gay orgy scandal in diocese
Vatican did not say why Grzegorz Kaszak was resigning, but priest from his diocese faced criminal investigation The pope has accepted the resignation of a...
No 666 to Hel: Polish bus route drops ‘devil’s number’ after Christian protests
Operator announces route to town of Hel has been redesignated as No 669 – a change that has prompted public outcry There will be no...
