by Cindy Wooden The German bishops’ meeting with officials of the Roman Curia was not a “showdown,” but it did make clear the Vatican’s strong concerns about Germany’s Synodal Path, especially regarding its support for official ministries for women and for a change in Church teaching about homosexuality, said the president of the bishops’ conference.…
Ahead of the kick-off of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, the “sports bishop” of the German Bishops’ Conference called for a critical look at conditions in the competition’s host country, including the situation of Christians. The international soccer competition kicked off on Sunday, November 20, in the State of Qatar, an emirate on the northeastern coast…
The retired archbishop of Strasbourg, France, admitted making “inappropriate gestures” to an adult woman when he was a Franciscan priest in the 1980s. Archbishop Jean-Pierre Grallet issued a public statement November 15. He said both a criminal investigation and canonical investigation were underway and that he would withdraw from speaking publicly during the investigations. He…
Pope Francis travels to share special meal with his cousins Pope Francis travelled to northern Italy on Saturday to celebrate the 90th birthday of his second cousin Carla Rabezzana with his Italian relatives. The 85-year-old Pope arrived by helicopter in the Italian province of Asti, 30 miles east of Turin, just before noon on November…
Dear Editor, Dr Tom Finegan [The Irish Catholic – November 10, 2022] puts us all in his debt by drawing our attention to a fault line in our thinking as Catholics. Like a geological fault line it is all the more dangerous for being unsuspected. We don’t think it is possible for us to imitate…
“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body”… so wrote Joseph Addison over 300 years ago. Most of us have memories of being read to as children and the pleasure it gave us, although of course we did not know then that because of the learning potential, the effects of reading on…
Staff Reporter Academic selection in the North of Ireland “disadvantages the already disadvantaged” according to new research from Queen’s University Belfast (QUB). Called ‘Is academic selection in Northern Ireland a barrier to social cohesion?’, the paper discusses the tests used by grammar schools to select pupils. Transfer tests began on Saturday November 12 and will…
Staff Writer A novena with addresses from special guests has started up as the month’s mind Masses for the victims of the October 7 explosion in Creeslough come to an end, with Fr John Joe Duffy saying that the intention is to bring about healing for a hurting community. Former Tyrone manager Mickey Harte is…
Limerick parishes offer prayers for Vicky Phelan Parishes in Limerick have offered prayers for cervical cancer campaigner Vicky Phelan, who died on Monday aged 48. “You will always be remembered for your strength and bravery, you were inspirational to so many,” the parishes of Donoughmore, Knockea and Roxboro in Ms Phelan’s home county, Limerick, said…
Pope Francis has continued to call on Russian and Ukrainian leaders to negotiate an end to the war, but the head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church told him Russia wants only the destruction of Ukraine. Ukrainian Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of Kyiv-Halych met Pope Francis November 7 at the Vatican, the first time the two have…