Vatican issues new document on Catholic education (Vatican News) The underlying principle of the new “Instruction” issued by the Congregation for Catholic Education is that educating is a passion that is always renewed. The document released today by the Congregation is entitled “The Identity of Catholic Schools for a Culture of Dialogue”. It is a concise and practical tool based on two motivations: “the need for a clearer awareness and consistency of the Catholic identity of the Church’s educational institutions throughout the world,” and the prevention of “conflicts and divisions in the essential sector of education”…
Retired patriarch of Coptic Catholic Church dies at 87 (CNS) Egyptian Cardinal Antonios Naguib, retired patriarch of the Coptic Catholic Church, died March 28 at the age of 87. He passed away at a hospital in Cairo after a lengthy illness…
Phoenix plans to launch Catholic rehab center for addicts (The Catholic Sun) Stretching across the pine-brush and open grasslands about 50 miles south of the Grand Canyon are 40 acres of land where a visitor can gaze for miles at the blue sky and hear the soft breezes blowing across the countryside, the San Francisco Peaks in the background. It is in this bucolic Southwest setting that the Diocese of Phoenix hopes men overcome by the ravages of substance abuse and other addictions will come to heal and reclaim their lives…
Priest kidnapped after Mass in Nigeria (CNA) A Catholic priest of the Diocese of Minna in Nigeria was among 45 people kidnapped after Mass on Sunday. The Nigeria Catholic Network reported that on the morning of March 27, assailants abducted villagers along with Father Leo Raphael Ozigi, a priest of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in the town of Sarkin Pawa…
Family demands probe into Indian bishop’s death (UCANews) Family members of an Indian bishop who died in a road accident three years ago have demanded an impartial probe into his death amid suspicions of foul play. Bishop Thomas Thennatt, 65, of Gwalior Diocese in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, died in a car crash on Dec. 14, 2018. “We have serious doubts over his accidental death. We believe he was killed,” said Claramma Constatine, a younger sibling of the bishop…
