By Ronan Scully, Self Help Africa “What is happening is insane, what is happening is inhuman.” The wheels of trolley suitcases make a clack clack clack sound as they roll across the uneven pavements. The sound has become a soundtrack to the picturesque mountain village of Vysne Nemeche on Slovakia’s far eastern border. The daily…
Four men accused of terrorist conspiracy after the murder of the French Catholic priest Father Jacques Hamel in 2016 have been convicted. “Justice is done,” Archbishop Dominique Lebrun of Rouen said after the verdict on March 9. “[The court] has discerned the good from the bad as much as possible, it has judged and for the good…
Nordic Catholic bishops have issued an open letter expressing alarm at the direction of the German ‘Synodal Way’. In the March 9 letter, they cautioned against “capitulation to the Zeitgeist” and “impoverishment of the content of our faith,” reported CNA Deutsch. While acknowledging the challenges facing the Catholic Church in Germany, they said that “the orientation, method, and…
Wreck of Shackleton’s ship found off Antarctica The wreckage of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton’s ship ‘Endurance’, which was crushed by Antarctic ice and sank some 3,000m to the ocean floor more than a century ago, has been found, a team searching for it has said. The three-masted sailing ship was lost in November 1915 during…
Cardinal Krajewski in Ukraine ‘with the logic of the Gospel’ “I am not a diplomat. I came here with the logic of the Gospel. That’s what Jesus would do. He was always on the side of the people who were suffering. The Holy Father also uses this logic of the Gospel.” This is what the…
Staff reporter The Irish Bishops’ Drugs Initiative (IBDI) has launched a new podcast to raise awareness about the effects gambling, drugs and alcohol addiction can have on young people’s lives. The first episode of the ‘Leave Your Mark’ podcast saw a discussion between Tyrone GAA midfielder and 2021 All-Ireland winner, Conn Kilpatrick, and 2002 All-Ireland…
The Court of Appeal will hear a case challenging a UK law that allows abortion up to birth for disability after the High Court rejected the case last year. The High Court in London ruled in September 2021 that the law allowing abortion up to birth for disability was not discriminatory. The challenge was brought by Heidi…
A papal envoy to Ukraine has denounced the bombing of a paediatric hospital in the city of Mariupol. Vatican Cardinal Michael Czerny, who was at the border between Hungary and Ukraine when he received the news, said: “Bombing and hospital: these two words in the same sentence already make you shudder.” Cardinal Czerny referred to…
Junno Arocho Esteves As millions of Ukrainian refugees continue to flee the ongoing violence of Russian aggression, many have found some comfort in neighbouring Hungary thanks to the efforts of Caritas. Arriving in the border town of Barabás, refugees are immediately taken to the charitable organisation’s makeshift refugee centre, where they are given shelter, a…
The Myanmar conflict’s destruction continued early March 10, when a military aircraft attack on a town in the east of the country caused severe damage to a Catholic convent’s roof, ceiling, and windows. Two Myanmar military aircraft hit the Sisters of Reparation convent, which serves as a retirement home and hospital for aging nuns. The…