Catholic movement in Italy dedicated to people ‘far from the Church’ — By: Catholic News Agency

Prayer house at San Simeone, Italy, September 2012. / Credit: Courtesy of Ricostruttori nella preghiera Rome, Italy, Apr 28, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA). Across Italy there are houses of prayer run by the Ricostruttori (Reconstructors) community, a Catholic movement dedicated to people who are far from the Church but attracted to spirituality, particularly Eastern…

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Democratic Republic of Congo bishops: Amid growth of Church ‘the Congolese state is dead’ — By: Catholic News Agency

Members of the Provincial Episcopal Assembly of Bukavu (ASSEPB). / Credit: Radio Moto ACI Africa, Apr 28, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA). Catholic bishops of the Ecclesiastical Province of Bukavu in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have denounced the insecurity and violence in their dioceses. In their collective statement issued Sunday, April 14, the…

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Analysis: Jesuit sex abuse scandal in Bolivia could be used politically to repress Church — By: Catholic News Agency

Facade of the Plurinational Legislative Assembly of Bolivia. / Credit: Wikimedia Commons / EEJCC ACI Prensa Staff, Apr 27, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA). One year after the Spanish newspaper El País published the report “Diary of a Pedophile Priest,” which recounted the sexual abuse of minors committed in Bolivia by the deceased Jesuit priest…

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‘Little miracle of Lille’: How a candlelight Mass gathers hundreds of young people every week in France — By: Catholic News Agency

Every Tuesday evening at 10 p.m., between 800 and 900 students converge on the historic St. Joseph’s Chapel at Lille Catholic University for a candlelight Mass. / Credit: Courtesy of Prudence Cuypers National Catholic Register, Apr 27, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA). “The good makes no noise,” St. Francis de Sales would say of Lille’s…

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