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Megan McCabe was born into a Catholic family, attended Catholic high school and college, and now teaches at a Catholic university. But the 32-year-old didn’t attend Mass for more than a month following the August release of a Pennsylvania grand-jury report documented more than 1,000 cases of...

My relationship with my Catholic faith is a lot like my relationship with social media. Both are a source of community, inspiration and activism. And both are also full of terrible old men saying awful things. I’ve spent years trying to manage that tension, trying to hold on to the … Read...

A victim of clerical sexual abuse has said that Pope Francis told him that God made him gay and that his sexuality “does not matter.” Read more via Leadership Newspaper – https://ift.tt/2rXaKnH Get More Nigeria Metro News

An attack on morning Mass at a Catholic church in central Nigeria yesterday left 2 priests and at least 16 parishioners dead, adding to the hundreds killed by herders in the region so far this year. Police suspect Fulani herdsmen were responsible for the shooting rampage at Saint … Read...

A religious icon was removed and this picture of Satan was left in its place at the church alter A Catholic church has been "desecrated" for a second time after a man lit fires and left satanic images at the altar, the diocese said. The incident at St Mary’s church, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk...

Pope Francis says the use of the religious symbol `the Crucifix’ (cross) as a fashion statement was abuse of the religious object . In a speech at St Peter’s Square in the Vatican, Pope Francis said that the religious symbol should be “contemplated and understood”, and “not be abused”...

CYRIACUS IZUEKWE It was the height of deceit and shock for the members of St. Peter’s Catholic Church, Ejigbo, Lagos after death exposed one of their strong members and a knight of Catholic Church in Lagos. P.M.EXPRESS reports that the deceased, late Chief Odogwu – a knight of the … Read more...

Popular Catholic Archbishop, AJV Obinna was attacked during a church burial service yesterday at the St. Micheal’s Catholic Church, Ngwoma, Owerri North LGA of Imo State. The Archbishop was reported to be conducting the burial service of Late Mrs Mbata, mother of the Pro-Chancellor of Read...

Cardinal Anthony Okogie, retired Catholic Archbishop of Lagos, has declared that the Catholic church does not run on titles. The former President of Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, made the remake while noting that Catholic church had never taught that God’s blessings depended on tithe...

After about five years’ absence due to alleged misunderstanding that was later described as “political,” the Catholic Church has announced its return to the Christian Association of Nigeria. The return was reportedly perfected on Thursday and Friday in Abuja when a delegation of the Catholic...

A man has gotten himself into very serious trouble after he reportedly duped a Catholic church of N1 million in Nasarawa State. via Tori News – http://ift.tt/2C15u4V Get More Nigeria Metro News

Pope Francis has sought to change the ‘Our Lord’s’ prayer in the bible. The pope said that the Roman Catholic Church should adopt a better translation of the phrase “lead us not into temptation” in the “Our Father”, the best known prayer in Christianity. “That is not a good translation,” the...

Pope Francis has requested a debate into the possibility of married men being priests in the Amazon region of Brazil as scarcity of married men bites hard in remote areas of the world READ MORE HERE

A Kano-based priest, Rev. Fr Gospel Inalegwu, who recently quit the priesthood has allegedly done his traditional and court wedding. According to Facebook user, Shadrack Okpomhe, he claimed that the priest had framed his own kidnap and eventually left priesthood so as to have a normal life...

Head of the Catholic churhc, Pope Francis suffered an automobile accident during a Sunday procession through the Colombian city of Cartegana on Sunday. He was left with a blackened eye a blood splattered all over his white gown The 80-year-old collided with the glass frame of the vehicle when...

A couple, Mr Okoronta and Mrs Agnes, from Umuchu town in Aguata LGA of Anambra State are in war over the sudden denial of sex by the wife because of her new faith in the Catholic church. Okoronta married Agnes some years back as a second wife according to the Igbo tradition and they have five...

The President, Muhammadu Buhari, has condemned the attack on a Catholic church in Anambra State, describing it as an unspeakable sacrilege. Making his grief known in a heavily worded statement by the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, President Buhari said that “there...

FOUNDER/Spiritual Director of Catholic Adoration of the Holy Spirit and Favoured Children of the Orphanage of the Holy Spirit in Maryland-Egoro Amede, Ekpoma, Edo State, Reverend Father John Damian Adizie has spoken about his life and ministry in an interview with Vanguard News Being born in...

The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in a new guideline released on Tuesday, October 25, 2016 stated that cremation is not forbidden by the church but scattering the ashes is forbidden. In the publication titled, “To rise with Christ”, the Catholic Church stated that it “continues...