The head of the French archdiocese where an elderly priest was murdered two and a half years ago by Islamic extremists has been granted a special status in the criminal investigation of the assassination, giving him access to information that could help in the Church’s own examination of the possible sainthood of the priest.

Two men stabbed Fr…

The US-Mexico border in Arizona. Credit: Chess Ocampo/Shutterstock.

On Tuesday evening, US President Donald Trump highlighted humanitarian problems present along the US-Mexico border and issued a call for increased security, including the construction of additional barriers on the border. His remarks were met with mixed reactions and frustration from Catholics across the United States…

COMECE welcomes the solution reached today among some EU member states, with the intervention of the EU, that have accepted to receive some migrants who were for days stranded at sea, rescued and brought to a Maltese harbour.

The deep concern expressed by the Bishops’ Conference from Malta with regards to the situation of these migrants is shared by COMECE: we can’t remain “deaf to the cry of those suffer” as “we are called to make compassion, love, mercy and solidarity a true way of life, a rule of conduct in our relationships with one another.”

However, the efforts made by the Catholic Church and civil society in welcoming, protecting, promoting and integrating migrants can’t substitute governments’ responsibility to ensure that newcomers are rescued when stranded at sea, brought to a safe place, treated in a humane way and provided with the necessary assistance…

Pope Francis says that those who care for the sick and give of themselves with generosity and straightforward love – like St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta – are amongst the Church’s most credible evangelizers.

In his message for the World Day of the Sick, celebrated on 11 February, the Pope focused on Jesus’s words to the Apostles: “You received without payment; give without payment” (Mt 10:8)…