Charles Collins

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Managing Editor at Crux Now

Charles Collins is the Managing Editor of @Crux. All Tweets are his own. He is no longer in Rome.

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Vance attends Vatican Good Friday service as tensions with Pope await

6 days ago | cruxnow.com | Elise Ann Allen |John Allen Jr |Charles Collins |Eduardo Lima

ROME – United States Vice President JD Vance attended a Passion liturgy at the Vatican Friday and plans to meet senior Vatican officials Saturday, amid tensions with Pope Francis and his top aides on multiple issues, including the Trump administration’s immigration policies. Vance, a Catholic convert, arrived in Italy Friday morning as part of an April 18-24 tour of Italy and India.
Pope visits Rome prison, meets with 70 prisoners for Holy Week

6 days ago | cruxnow.com | Elise Ann Allen |John Allen Jr |Charles Collins |Eduardo Lima

ROME – Pope Francis despite technically observing a two-month period of rest after a 38 day hospitalization ventured out twice Thursday, once to greet hospital staff who cared for him, and once to greet prisoners amid Holy Week. On Holy Thursday the pope, who usually visits a prison, or a center for migrants or the disabled, to celebrate Mass of the Lord’s Supper and wash the feet of inmates, paid a private visit to Rome’s Regina Coeli prison.
Church organizations paint grim picture of Sudan’s war as it enters its third year

6 days ago | cruxnow.com | Ngala Killian Chimtom |John Allen Jr |Charles Collins |Elise Ann Allen

YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – As the war in Sudan gets into its third year, faith organizations are painting a grim picture of a conflict that has resulted in the deaths of a staggering 150,000 people, according to Global Conflict Tracker.
Catholic priest says Uganda has moved from Republic to a dynasty

1 week ago | cruxnow.com | Ngala Killian Chimtom |John Allen Jr |Charles Collins |Elise Ann Allen

YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – A leading Catholic priest in Uganda has spoken out about Uganda’s political transition, explaining that the country seems to have shifted from a republic where leaders are voted, to a kingdom where transition is hereditary. Father Robert Ochola-Lukwiya the parish priest of Angal Parish and Chancellor of Nebbi Catholic Diocese in Uganda told Crux that the prevailing political discourse in the East African country today is about father-to –son succession.
At Easter, Catholics can expect for more persecution from the Nicaraguan regime

1 week ago | cruxnow.com | Eduardo Lima |John Allen Jr |Charles Collins |Elise Ann Allen

SÃO PAULO, Brazil – At least 3,500 acts of religious piety will have been forbidden by the Sandinista regime till the end of the 2025 Lent, lawyer Martha Patricia Molina, who monitors the persecution of the Catholic Church from exile in the United States, told Crux.
Arrest of Italian priest for abuse may renew calls for national reckoning

1 week ago | cruxnow.com | John Allen Jr |Charles Collins |Elise Ann Allen |Eduardo Lima

ROME – An Italian priest has been placed under house arrest on charges of aggravated sexual assault against a minor, while also facing at least five other charges of abuse in other communities said to date from 2011 to 2013. The arrest came after Father Ciro Panigara, 48, stepped down as the pastor of a small parish in the northern Italian province of Brescia earlier this year.
Commonwealth of Nations seeks Vatican collaboration in peace, tolerance

1 week ago | cruxnow.com | Elise Ann Allen |John Allen Jr |Charles Collins |Eduardo Lima

ROME – With much of the world ravaged by global conflicts belonging to what Pope Francis has dubbed as a “third world war fought piecemeal,” an internation association dedicated to promoting peace and development is seeking the Vatican’s help.
New documentary looks at life of Carlo Acutis, who will be canonized this month

1 week ago | cruxnow.com | Charles Collins |John Allen Jr |Elise Ann Allen |Ngala Killian Chimtom

As the Vatican prepares to canonize Carlo Acutis on April 27, a new movie about the Italian saint is taking place. Acutis died of leukemia at the age of 15 in 2006, and soon after his death stories about his holiness began to spread from around Italy. The young man was also venerated in England, where he was born and baptized, since his father was working there at the time. Carlo Acutis: Roadmap to Reality is being debuted on April 21 in Washington, DC, before airing at the Vatican on April 24.
Bishop in Cameroon calls on voters to ‘make no mistake’ in this year’s election

1 week ago | cruxnow.com | Ngala Killian Chimtom |John Allen Jr |Charles Collins |Elise Ann Allen

YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – As Cameroon gear up for a presidential election later this year, a Catholic bishop in the central African country has urged citizens to vote their consciences and to avoid errors in their choice of president that they may live to regret. Cameroonians are scheduled to vote in a Presidential election in October, with the country’s 92-year-old President, Paul Biya – in power now for over 43 years – still expected to seek an eighth mandate.
Churches Together in England says Council of Nicaea still a ‘breath of hope’

1 week ago | cruxnow.com | Charles Collins |John Allen Jr |Elise Ann Allen

LEICESTER, United Kingdom – British Christian leaders, including Cardinal Vincent Nichols, marked the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea as a “breath of hope” for the Church. The first Ecumenical Council took place in 325, and went against the Arian heresy, which denied the true divinity of Jesus Christ.