The Catholic Weekly

4 days ago | catholicweekly.com.au | Eduardo Lima

A video of Brazilian nuns beatboxing and dancing hip-hop, a scene taken from a local TV show and defined by celebrities like Whoopi Goldberg as “a real life ‘Sister Act,'” went viral on 28 May, with millions of views all over the world. Sisters Marizele Isabel Cassiano Rego, 46, and Marisa de Paula Neves, 41, were taking part 20 May in a TV show of the Catholic network Pai Eterno (Eternal Father), in Goiás state, in order to talk about a vocational encounter the two were attending in the region.

6 days ago | catholicweekly.com.au | Paulina Guzik

A massive landslide triggered by the collapse of part of the Birch Glacier buried nearly 90 per cent of the Catholic village of Blatten in Switzerland’s Lötschental Valley on 28 May. All 300 residents were safely evacuated, but the historic village—once home to vibrant Corpus Christi processions and a 15th-century Virgin Mary statue—now lies under ice, mud and debris.

1 week ago | catholicweekly.com.au | Gina Christian

A habit worn by St Pio of Pietrelcina and other rare relics are coming to the US, brought by Capuchin friars from the very monastery that was home to the beloved saint known as Padre Pio. The National Centre for Padre Pio in Barto, Pennsylvania, and the Padre Pio Foundation of America in Cromwell, Connecticut, announced the visit in a 19 May joint press release.

1 week ago | catholicweekly.com.au | Michael Cook

At least five people have died, 10,000 homes and businesses have been seriously damaged, and hundreds of properties declared uninhabitable in northern New South Wales after a “one-in-500-year” flood disaster in late May. Towns up and down the north coast have been devastated and the Manning River at Taree, the epicentre of the floods, rose to six metres above normal levels, surpassing a record set in 1929.

1 week ago | catholicweekly.com.au | Carol Glatz

Celebrating his first Mass in Rome’s diocesan cathedral, Pope Leo XIV said communion is built primarily “on our knees,” through prayer and a constant commitment to conversion.