Dear Editor, I have been watching the World Cup, I dare say. Whenever the time comes around every four years, I become quite invested. It is a time when the world’s best footballers come together and millions of people from multiple nations get behind their country’s finest sportsmen. Admittedly it was a terrible decision by…
Vatican holds thermal shirt drive for Ukraine The Vatican’s charity office is holding a drive to collect thermal shirts for people in Ukraine as they face an energy emergency amid the war. Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, the Pope’s almoner, said December 5 that the charity office of the Vatican is “already stocking up” on thermal shirts…
Staff Reporter A Catholic basketball coach in the US has said the Holy Family is the only royal family he recognises during a recent press conference that has gone viral on social media. In Boston to attend the 2022 Earthshot Prize Awards, Prince and Princess of Wales William and Kate attended the Boston Celtics’ game…
The Ukrainian government said it would sanction members of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church affiliated with the Moscow Patriarchate. After a December 1 meeting of the National Security and Defence Council, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the government also would review if the Church met the legal criteria for use of one of the main shrines…
Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Catholic woman who escaped death for alleged blasphemy and who now lives in Canada, has appealed for the protection of victims of blasphemy laws in her home country. She also said her family is struggling in Canada, because the government only supported them for one year, reported ucanews.com. In her first…
Staff Reporter A prominent Jesuit priest-artist who completed the iconic mosaics at Rome’s Irish College has had his ministry restricted, reportedly after an investigation by his religious order into allegations of abuse against religious sisters in Slovenia. The Jesuits said in a statement this week that the order has barred 68-year-old Fr Marko Ivan Rupnik,…
As California’s three-year window to file child sex abuse lawsuits past the statute of limitations nears its conclusion, 66 Catholic clergy and religious have been named in 116 lawsuits in Alameda County, which covers the area between San Francisco and San Jose. Additionally, 14 of the clergy members and religious identified in the lawsuits are…
German Synodal Way designed to create ‘pressure’ The German Synodal Way was designed from the outset to avoid legal sanctions while simultaneously creating “pressure” on the Church to change Catholic teaching, one of the founders of the process told German media Friday. Thomas Sternberg, former president of the Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK), said…
by Lindsey Weishar I love the hymns that accompany us through the Advent season. A term I sometimes hear used for them is ‘haunting.’ Some are played in minor keys, which fills them with a special mystery, a particular kind of longing. I think haunting is such an appropriate word as the earliest usage of the word haunt…
The mystery of sin rests, not on questions of moral right and wrong, but in faith that God can put all things right, writes Fr Philip Endean SJ Shortly before the Council of Ephesus (431), and independently, St Augustine was reflecting on the scope of Christ’s saving work, and its relationship to our good behaviour. Starting from…