Pope Leo XIV is not simply an “anti-Trump”, says Volker Leppin. In the current issue of Herder-Korrespondenz (August), the professor of church history emphasises that Leo certainly shares the views of the American president. Leppin explained that Cardinal Robert Prevost had been “anything but ‘woke’” on issues of gender: In 2012, he had declared to…
“We don’t even know enough to make an educated guess,” says the director of the Vatican Observatory on the possibility of extraterrestrial life. From a religious point of view, however, there is nothing to speak against it. The Director of the Vatican Observatory, Guy Consolmagno, believes that extraterrestrial life is possible. “We do not know.…
Even more than before the fire, the restored Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris is a glamorous setting for festive ceremonies. The Parisian Cardinal Vingt-Trois has now also been laid to rest here. Paris and France bid farewell to Cardinal André Vingt-Trois on Wednesday. The former Archbishop of Paris died on Friday at the age of 82…
What’s next for the Druze in Syria? This is the focus of the talks in Majdal Shams in the Israeli-occupied Golan. The violence against fellow believers in Suweida, Syria, is causing fear and anger. In the south-west Syrian province of Suweida, there has been fierce violence between Bedouins, who are supported by Syrian government troops,…
The Pope went on holiday for a good two weeks. A holiday? Not quite. Leo XIV did move to the papal summer residence in Castel Gandolfo. But numerous appointments interfered with the planned holiday. Now he is back in the Vatican. Well arrived! Pope Leo XIV is back home. The head of the Catholic Church…
Children in the Gaza Strip are the first and most affected victims of a war aimed at wiping out the Palestinians from that territory. The United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) has said more than 15,000 children in Gaza have been killed, over 34,000 injured, and nearly 1 million displaced. There’s no other place in the…
Irish Dominican nuns protest ‘indiscriminate destruction of innocent lives in Gaza’ The President of Ireland Michael D Higgins has quoted Pope Leo XIV in his condemnation of the recent killing of civilians in Gaza. The Irish President in a statement this week said: “In his weekend statement on these issues, Pope Leo XIV has used…
“Young people are not just the future of the Church – they are its present,” said Bishop Fintan Gavin of Cork and Ross, Chair for Evangelisation, Catechetics, and Pastoral Renewal for the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference, speaking ahead of the upcoming Jubilee of Youth. Over 600 young adults will travel from Ireland to Rome from…
Cork City councillors who voted against renaming Bishop Lucey Park have strongly criticised what they see as an attempt to rewrite history and erase an important figure in the city’s Catholic heritage. Councillors voted 17-11 last week to begin a process that could see Bishop Lucey Park — named in honour of Bishop Cornelius Lucey…
Chai Brady