Carmen Hernández, co-founder of the Neocatechumenal Way, has this week, Tuesday 19 July, died at her home in Madrid, Spain. She was 85 years old.

Pope Francis has this week condemned the attack on Bastille Day celebrations in France, calling it an act of “blind violence”.

For the first time in 200 years, experts have begun a restoration of the Edicule of the Tomb in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre where, according to Christian tradition, Jesus was laid to rest after His crucifixion.

Mercy is not an abstract concept, but a lifestyle that invites Christians to make an examination of conscience and ask themselves if they place the spiritual and material needs of others before their own, Pope Francis said.

Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe and Auxiliary Bishop Don Sproxton will be among some 19 bishops from across Australia who will pack their bags for World Youth Day next month, proving age is no barrier to participation in the world’s largest youth event.

Local bishops have an obligation to welcome new movements and communities and guide them, while groups have an obligation to obey the local bishop and avoid the appearance of setting up a parallel church, according to a new Vatican document.

remove a religious superior or bishop from office for failing to protect minors and vulnerable adults from sex abuse.

Deacons are called to be servants who set aside their own self-serving plans and are generous with their lives, Pope Francis has said.

Pope Francis and the Grand Iman of one of the most important Sunni Muslim Universities in the world have this week embraced at the Vatican, after five years of tension and top-level silence.

An economic vision geared solely toward profit and material well-being has led to an economy of exclusion and inequality that has increased poverty and the number of people discarded “as unproductive and useless”, Pope Francis said.