Editorials in national Catholic publications have taken the US Catholic Church to task for its failure to root out all forms of clergy sexual abuse in the light of allegations made by former seminarians against Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, retired archbishop of Washington. “The Catholic Church cannot pretend to be shocked about the pattern of…
Pilgrimage is a time for young people to encounter God, writes Fr Brendan Quinlivan One of the great films that explores the theme of Pilgrimage is The Way, directed by Emilio Estevez and starring his father Martin Sheen. At the heart of the film is the famous pilgrimage, or Camino, to Santiago di Compostela.…
Pope Francis will canonise a teenage boy during the Synod of bishops on young people in October. Nunzio Sulprizio will be declared a saint alongside Oscar Romero and Paul VI and four others in a ceremony on October 14. Sulprizio was born on April 13, 1817, in the Abruzzo region near Pescara. Both of his…
Inés San Martín An already noticeable edge to Argentina’s mounting abortion debate turned even nastier in mid-July with the release of a ‘Doom’-inspired video game called ‘Doom Fetito’ in which players scramble to procure an abortion-inducing drug by battling Catholic priests, Nazi-like police and pro-life women, and then ultimately kill ‘the boss’, meaning an…
New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan [pictured], has called for prayers that “the change in the US Supreme Court will move our nation closer to the day when every human being is protected in law and welcomed in life.” Noting the lobbying that began by pro abortion groups as soon as Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy…
WMOF 2018 A new series of digital animations have been launched as part of ongoing preparations for the World Meeting of Families and the visit of Pope Francis. The new resource focuses on Amoris Laetitia, the document written by Pope Francis on love in the family. The Amoris Animations, the first created using Amoris…
The visit of Pope Francis should be a moment when even those who feel alienated or hostile to the Church can reconnect, Archbishop Eamon Martin has said. He described the theme of the World Meeting of Families ‘the Gospel of the Family – Joy for the World’ as a message “not only for ‘faith-full’ Catholic…
Going to the Mountain: Life Lessons from my Grandfather, Nelson Mandela by Ndaba Mandela (Hutchinson, £14.99) Peter Hegarty With clear-eyed affection Ndaba Mandela recalls the man who brought him up. He first met his grandfather in Victor Verster prison shortly before his release in 1990. Mandela – Madiba, as he was popularly known – expected to spend his…
A Catholic priest was shot dead on Friday, July 20 in the Cameroons. Fr Alexander Nougi Sob was parish priest of Bomaka, a district of Buea, the capital of the English-speaking region of South-West Cameroon. He was also a former Catholic Education Secretary there. According to the Journal du Cameroun, Fr Sob was hit by…
Catholic dioceses in China are being required to show how they will reduce foreign influences and adopt a more Chinese ideological and theological identity. The aim is to do this through a five-year plan running until 2022. A strategy was agreed at a May 17 meeting of the Bishops’ Conference of the Catholic Church in…