Catholic bishops in Indonesia met with government officials this week to express concern about the violence in Papua province after a Catholic catechist was shot and killed by security forces.

Pope Francis on May 11 formally created a new official ministry in the Catholic Church for those who teach the fundamentals of the faith to children and others, opening the position to "men and women ...

Pope Francis said on Friday that he instituted the new ministry of catechist with the hope that it would help to “awaken this vocation.” Addressing participants in a meeting organized by the ...

VATICAN CITY — The Vatican’s liturgy office on Monday issued a rite and guidelines for the institution of lay catechists in the dioceses of the Catholic Church. Pope Francis created the lay ministry ...

Pope Francis will be creating a new official ministry in the Catholic Church for those who teach children and others the fundamentals of the faith, the Vatican announced May 5. The Vatican did not ...

A Catholic official in Papua province has condemned the killing of Rufinus Tigau, a catechist whom Indonesian security forces accused of being a separatist. "We are very concerned with this incident ...

In a nation founded on religious liberty, the Army’s October decision to cancel Catholic chapel contracts strikes a blow against the very freedoms our troops defend. Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, ...

Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) – The victims of the jihadist attack committed on Sunday, February 16 in the village of Pansi, not far from Sebba, in the province of Yahgha, in northern Burkina Faso were ...

DETROIT—Jesuit Father John A. Hardon is finally getting a well-deserved rest. In the book Fishers of Men (Trinity Communications, 1986), John Janaro writes that the drowning of a seminary colleague ...

Vanguard gathered that the Catechist who was in charge of administration at the Roman Catholic Church in the area, was in company of his in-law Ayem Mbakuughur when their attackers waylaid and killed ...

Stephen Colbert has figured out how to reach people, and Catholic educators should take notice. Since the debut of his late-night satirical news show, “The Colbert Report,” in 2005, Colbert has gained ...

DAYTON, Ohio – A possible recognition of “ecological sins” in the Catholic Church’s main teaching document would help “sharpen our consciences in matters of ecological abuse,” according to Dr.