Walter Sánchez Silva
Walter Sánchez Silva is a senior writer for ACI Prensa (https://www.aciprensa.com). With more than 15 years of experience, he has reported from important ecclesial events in Europe, Asia and Latin America during the pontificates of Benedict XVI and Pope Francis. E-mail: walter@aciprensa.com
Articles by Walter Sánchez Silva
Nicaragua dictatorship sentences 11 Christian leaders to prison, fines them $880 million
Apr 8, 2024 / 11:30 amThe trial took place in wake of the leaders’ success in bringing together thousands of people to pray in public venues, which the regime saw as a threat.
Why go on a spiritual retreat?
Apr 6, 2024 / 07:00 amFour Catholic priests share their reflections in answer to a simple but very important question for the life of faith: Why go on a spiritual retreat?
Pope Francis: Benedict XVI defended me in face of accusations ‘that I promoted gay marriage’
Apr 3, 2024 / 17:30 pmFrancis related that he had “a very beautiful visit with him when some cardinals came to see him, surprised by my words about marriage, and he was very clear with them.”
Famous atheist Richard Dawkins says he considers himself a ‘cultural Christian’
Apr 3, 2024 / 16:30 pmAtheist Richard Dawkins said of Christianity: “It seems to me to be a fundamentally decent religion, in a way that I think Islam is not.”
French government cracks down on priest who said homosexual relations are sinful
Apr 3, 2024 / 08:00 amThe French government has initiated a series of legal measures against Father Matthieu Raffray for calling homosexual relations sinful.
5 tips for evangelizing on social media
Mar 28, 2024 / 08:00 amFriar Nelson Medina, a Dominican known for his extensive apostolate on the internet, offers five tips for Catholics to do a better job evangelizing on social media.
‘Everything is yours!’: Ecuador renews its consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Mar 27, 2024 / 16:00 pmOn March 25, Monday of Holy Week, Ecuador renewed its historic consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, first carried out 150 years ago.
Holy Land priest recommends 4 ways to live a worthwhile Holy Week
Mar 27, 2024 / 09:00 amFather Juan María Solana, LC, director of the Magdala Center in the Holy Land, offers four ways to live worthwhile Holy Week in 2024.
Five suggestions from Mother Angelica for Holy Week
Mar 24, 2024 / 14:00 pmMother Angelica, foundress of EWTN, offered recommendations for Holy Week that continue to be wise and practical to this day.
Pope Francis accepts resignation of Dominican Republic auxiliary bishop
Mar 18, 2024 / 17:30 pmPope Francis has accepted the resignation of an auxiliary bishop of Santo Domingo, Ramón Benito Ángeles Fernández, who turned 75 on March 17.
Vatican authorizes opening of cause for canonization for 13-year-old Filipina girl
Mar 18, 2024 / 16:05 pmThe grave of Niña Ruiz-Abad, a 13-year-old girl who died in 1993 in the Philippines, has become a place of pilgrimage.
Controversial Sister Lucía Caram and Religión Digital team meet with Pope Francis
Mar 14, 2024 / 18:00 pmPope Francis received in an audience the controversial nun Sister Lucía Caram and members of the Spanish-language news portal Religión Digital.
Bishop rules on supposed apparitions of Virgin Mary in Italy
Mar 8, 2024 / 16:05 pmAfter an investigation by a group of experts, an Italian bishop has decreed that the alleged apparitions in Trevignano Romano are not supernatural.
Priests suspend YouTube program after making ‘comments in bad taste’ about Pope Francis
Mar 7, 2024 / 17:05 pmA group of priests have suspended “until further notice” their YouTube program following the controversy sparked by comments about Pope Francis.
Pro-abortion activists aggressively harass peaceful pro-life prayer vigil in Germany
Mar 6, 2024 / 18:32 pmA lawyer and executive director of 40 Days for Life International denounced a March 1 attack by abortion activists on a group peacefully praying.
Pope Francis names retired judge to investigate sex abuse charges against Canadian cardinal
Mar 6, 2024 / 17:40 pmThe Archdiocese of Quebec has announced that Pope Francis has ordered an investigation into the accusations of sexual abuse against Cardinal Gerald Lacroix.
Anonymous Cardinal ‘Demos II’ proposes agenda for next pope
Mar 5, 2024 / 19:30 pmAn anonymous cardinal offers seven suggested tasks for the next successor of St. Peter.
Are all religions equal? A Catholic priest responds
Feb 19, 2024 / 07:00 amFather Eduardo Hayen Cuarón, director of the newspaper Presencia in Mexico, responded to the question of whether all religions are equal, good, and true.
‘Guadalupe: Mother of Humanity’ opens Feb. 22 in U.S. theaters
Feb 19, 2024 / 06:00 amThe film, shot in four countries, opens with fictionalized recreations of the five apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Guadalupe in 1531 to Juan Diego.
Church floor in Philippines collapses on Ash Wednesday, killing 1 and injuring dozens
Feb 15, 2024 / 18:10 pmWitnesses reportedly heard a loud noise and then screams from the people who fell from the balcony and from some who were on the first floor.