The newly-appointed apostolic nuncio to South Korea, Monsignor Alfred Xuereb is expected to encourage the warming relations between the two Koreas and play an active role in peace initiatives in the region.

Mgr Xuereb, good news for Korean reconciliation

According to Monsignor Marco Sprizzi, who has been in charge of the Nunciature in Seoul since the retirement of Apostolic Nuncio Archbishop Osvaldo Padilla on 15 September, 2017, the appointment of Monsignor Xuereb by Pope Francis bodes well for inter-Korean reconciliation…

Frances of Rome, the married saint most famous for remarking, “A married woman must, when called upon, leave her devotions to God at the altar to find him in her household affairs,” did not want to be married. More than anything in the world, she wanted to be a nun, and she told her father just that. Unfortunately for her, her father was entirely unconcerned about her desires—he insisted that she marry…

His Excellency Mgr Jean-Claude Hollerich S.J., Archbishop of Luxembourg, has been elected President of COMECE by the Delegates of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union for a 5 years mandate.

In the same election, four Vice Presidents were also elected: Mgr Noel Treanor (Ireland), Mgr Mariano Crociata (Italy), Mgr Jan Vokal (Czech Republic), Franz-Josef Overbeck (Germany).

Mgr Hollerich succeeds to H…

The Vatican announced on Wednesday that Pope Francis has recognized a second miracle allowing five people on the path to sainthood to be canonised, the most prominent being Bl. Pope Paul VI and Bl. Oscar Romero.

With a second miracle approved, the path has been cleared for a date to be set for the canonization of each of the five candidates, allowing them to officially be declared a saint…

God has a life project for everyone! Yesterday as today, Christ calls men and women to respond to their personal “call from God”. In Tirana, about fifty delegates representing their Catholic Bishops’ Conferences, coming from 17 European countries, gathered at the invitation of H.E. Msgr. Ottavio Vitale, Bishop of Lehzë and delegate for the vocational ministry of the Albanian Catholic Bishops’ Conference, to talk about the beauty of the Christian vocation…

Archbishop Ivan Jurkovič’s third statement defends the rights of children. This statement follows one consisting in the affirmation of the role of culture in society and a second covering freedom of religion or belief.

25% of children suffer from humanitarian disasters

Responding to the High Commissioner’s Report on the protection of children’s rights in humanitarian situations, Archbishop Jurkovič says that the Holy See believes that while there has been some progress, “we are deeply concerned by the fact that, in 2017, around 535 million children were affected by humanitarian disasters; this represents one child out of four in the world.”

The growing number of humanitarian situations—war, local crises, natural disasters—affect “too many people, especially our children, our future.” As a result, a growing number of children are refugees, migrants, internally displaced, orphaned…