Fr Peter Baquero SDB Congratulations congratulations congratulations and thank you thank you thank you for accepting the call by God in His Church through his Servant Pope Francis to be the fourth(4th) Good Chief Shepherd of His sheepfold in Kerema Diocese. Welcome to the call to servant leadership...

Msgr. John Ribat, M.S.C., Archbishop of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea was born in 1957 in Volavolo, archdiocese of Rabaul. After attending elementary school in Naveo and Volavolo, he attended the Malabunga Government High School in Rabaul. He completed high school at the St. Peter Chanel High...

-        Fr. Brian Nonde CMM Port Moresby:  Three hundred and thirty (330) young people from 22 dioceses of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands are on a Youth Convention at Don Bosco Technological Institute, Port Moresby....

“Is it real? Do you really come from such a cold, freezing place as Russia?  Is it hot for you here?  What are you doing here? How many Catholics are there in Russia?  Why did you join the SVD?”  These are just some of the questions I receive when people meet me and learn that I...

Pope Francis sometimes seems to want to honor a specific place, spotlight a specific cause, or honor a specific person when he awards a cardinal's red hat, and in Archbishop John Ribat of Papua New Guinea, he would appear to have done all three.   On Sunday, Oct. 9, Pope Francis announced a...

Rochus Tatamai Pope Francis' choice to nominate a Cardinal from the periphery as far as on the edges of Watom Island and Papua New Guinea confirms what and who Pope Francis represents and remains steadfast to his standards...The Crux in this profile of Cardinal Ribat looks at the...

On Sunday, Oct. 9, Pope Francis announced a consistory on Nov. 19 for the creation of 17 new cardinals, including 13 under the age of 80 and therefore eligible to vote for the next pope. Crux is offering a series of profiles of the new cardinals.] Next month Pope Francis will hold his third...

On Saturday 1st October 2016 Deacon Xavier Sariman sm was ordained priest by Rochus Tatamai MSC, Bishop of Bereina, Central Province. The symbolic first day of the month represents many "first" in the life of this young man. He is the "first" Sariman to be ordained priest after the 131 years since...

-        Arlene Abital & Bomai Witne Port Moresby, 2 October, 2016: “Social communication and networking: a way forward to keep contact and stay connected” was highlighted during the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands’...

Rochus Tatamai September 4 While we patiently await our happy and blessed day of canonization of our own Melanesian Brother na wantok Blessed Peter ToRot- Catechist and martyr...we can take courage and joy the St Teresa of Calcutta visited PNG three(3) times in 1974, 1977, and 1981....