YouTube shuts down EWTN’s Polish channel For the second time in less than two years, EWTN’s affiliate in Poland has had its YouTube channel suspended, reported Fr Piotr Wiśniowski, general director of EWTN Poland. Without any warning or explanation, on October 22 YouTube shut down the Catholic programming channel, which features a live broadcast from the adoration…
The Catholic population in Canada has declined by almost 2 million people in the last 10 years, the Canadian census has found in a report that indicates the religiously unaffiliated now outnumber Catholics. The latest census figures, compiled in 2021, show the Catholic Canadian population has declined to 10.9 million. Catholics now make up about…
by Barbara Fraser The Church in Latin America and the Caribbean is called to be a missionary Church that heeds the cry of the poor and excluded; a synodal Church where women, young people and laypeople have greater roles; and a Church that is evangelised even as it evangelises, according to the final document of…
Staff Reporter The National Council for Curriculum and Assessment’s (NCCA) draft SPHE curriculum has been criticised by Catholic bodies for “ignoring” schools’ rights to govern their own ethos. The Association of Patrons and Trustees of Catholic Schools (APTCS) have warned that the rationale underpinning the proposed Junior Cycle curriculum “does not in any way recognise…
This month 150 randomly-chosen French citizens will debate whether or not to adopt legislation that will legalise “assisted dying” as part of President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to move forward on proposals to legalise assisted suicide. The citizens’ panel will take part in a six-month debate over whether to allow legal euthanasia and assisted suicide. Polling shows that 93% of…
US woman sets bees on police A US woman is facing several charges after allegedly unleashing honeybees to attack police officers as they enforced an eviction on a home in Massachusetts. The incident happened after Rorie Susan Woods, a 55-year-old professional beekeeper from Hadley, MA arrived at the property towing a stack of manufactured beehives…
As his cause opens, Fr Willie Doyle can be an inspiration for the Church today, writes Fr John Hogan On October 27 last, Bishop of Meath Tom Deenihan promulgated an eict announcing that he was opening the Cause for the Beatification and Canonisation of Jesuit priest and war hero, Fr Willie Doyle. The bishop’s decision…
Synodality text praised at Vatican event The Holy Spirit is at work in the latest document of the Synod on Synodality, presenters said October 27 at a press conference on the guiding text for the next stage of the synod’s discussions. The document, or “synthesis of the syntheses,” Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, SJ, said, “is therefore…
Dear Editor, The Government is considering plans to extend exclusion zones to any place that might putatively be providing “termination of pregnancy services” and not only those already doing so. The term itself is broad enough to cover everything from an actual abortion clinic all the way down to any local pharmacy that might be…
by Fr John Harris OP Notebook The recent tragic events in the village of Creeslough, Co. Donegal reminded me of a journey from a funeral I attended with two friends a long number of years ago in Donegal. We had attended the funeral of a nephew of a mutual friend and were returning to Dublin.…