A prominent pro-life group has condemned politicians who a signed an “outrageous” letter calling on the UK government to legalise the killing of Northern Ireland’s unborn babies. The Northern Irish group, Precious Life, said that the letter to Prime Minister Theresa May and her Irish counterpart Leo Varadkar which was coordinated by Labour MP Stella…
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…
Letter from Rome US President Donald Trump spent most of last week desperately trying to spin his controversial summit with Vladimir Putin [pictured below] as a breakthrough, despite widespread impressions of near-total capitulation on the question of Russian interference in the 2016 election. “The Summit with Russia was a great success, except with the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The referendum planned for the autumn to alter or delete the clause in the Constitution on the role of women in the home, (41.2.2) may be deferred to 2019 and in its place a referendum to reduce divorce waiting times may be brought forward. Leo Varadkar’s government is planning several referenda in the coming years…
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…
A seven-foot-tall bronze statue of the Virgin Mary in a Catholic church in New Mexico appears to be weeping a substance with the chemical makeup of olive oil treated with perfume. The ‘weeping’ began on Pentecost Sunday on May 20, when parishioners at Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church in Hobbs noticed that there appeared to be tears…
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