Ortega regime in Nicaragua shuts Catholic radio stations Nicaraguan police broke into Divine Mercy parish the night of August 1 in the town of Sébaco in the Diocese of Matagalpa to shut down one of the five Catholic radio stations closed that day by the Daniel Ortega regime. On Facebook, the parish broadcast live the…
If you were listening closely this week, your ears may have picked up a subterranean rumbling out of Rome. It was the sound of the tectonic plates of history shifting, as, perhaps for the first time ever, the Vatican actually more or less came clean about its finances. In the old days, it used to…
Mindful Living The COP26 Climate Change Conference, which took place in Glasgow in November 2021 was widely regarded as humanity’s last chance to prevent catastrophic global warming. The consequences of the unjustified war in Ukraine makes it even more difficult to achieve the targets we must attain. In recent years we have seen with increasing…
American popstar Britney Spears took to Instagram to vent about church closures during Covid which she claims prevented her from having the Catholic wedding of her dreams. In a now-deleted post, Ms Spears said that she’d wanted to marry in St Monica Catholic Church in Southern California, but was prevented from becoming a regular attendee…
The number of legal abortions taking place in Poland decreased by 90% in 2021, following a court ruling that banned abortion in the case of a foetal medical diagnosis such as Down syndrome. According to a report by the Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita, data from the Ministry of Health shows that the number of legal abortions…
Ukraine’s ambassador to the Holy See has hinted that a possible papal trip to his country could happen before the Pope’s visit to Kazakhstan in mid-September, when he is expected to meet with Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill. Pope Francis met with the Ukrainian Ambassador to the Holy See, Andrii Yurash, on Saturday for a private…
Gorgosaurus skeleton sells for over $6 million at auction The first skeleton of a Gorgosaurus dinosaur to go under the hammer has sold for $6.1 million (€6m) at auction in New York. The specimen is 3 metres tall and 6.7m long, and had been expected to fetch between $5m and $8m. “The result places the…
A new exhibition, ‘A Man for all Seasons’, on the life of the late Bishop of Derry Edward Daly was launched Wednesday 3, August. Exhibition It will be on display at St Eugene’s Cathedral Hall, Infirmary Road, from August 8-14. The exhibition – which is supported by Derry & Strabane Council – features items linked…
Personal Profile Connor McCann has been involved in ministry for almost 40 years, in one form or another. Having discovered the great belonging the faith community offers, he discerned a vocation to the priesthood, before finding his vocation as a pastoral worker. I loved to sing, and in some respects I was a bit of…
Opus Dei in Argentina has responded to a BBC news story about a complaint made to the Vatican by 43 women who claim to have been exploited by the Catholic apostolate. In a communiqué, Opus Dei told ACI Prensa that it considers it necessary “to set up a listening and study commission that will allow…
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