More than 66,000 people – most of them Christian – have fled Nagorno-Karabakh as of September 27, abandoning the historic, Christian-majority Armenian enclave (known in Armenian by its ancient name, Artsakh) located in southwestern Azerbaijan and internationally recognised as part of that nation.
The Pope signalled openness to giving blessings to same-sex couples provided that doing so is not confused with the sacrament of marriage.
We have heard much, in recent times, about ‘far-right’ and ‘far-left’ tendencies in politics; but are these terms really meaningful in the modern age? As everyone knows, they originate from the time of the 1789 French Revolution when deputies supporting the monarchy and the ancien régime sat on the right of the National Assembly, and…
Many parents have spoken to me recently about their anger at the new regulations on Relationship and Sex Education (RSE) in Northern Ireland. Education is a devolved matter for the Assembly, but a law was introduced in Westminster in June without any prior consultation, providing that pupils aged 11-16 must receive “age appropriate, comprehensive and scientifically…
Too many of our laws are passed by the EU, with little more than a rubber stamp, writes David Quinn Do you know anything about the voting record of your MEP, or what they get up to generally in Brussels or Strasbourg? The answer is, probably not. I don’t. I pay far more attention to…
We must be careful to avoid turning laity into mini-priests, writes Ruadhán Jones We reported last week that dioceses are pushing ahead with lay-led funerals, a move that is welcome in some respects and a sign of painful decline in others. The painful decline in the number of vocations to the priesthood is an ongoing…
Chris Altieri “This business will get out of control,” intoned the inimitable Fred Thompson as Rear Admiral Joshua Painter in the film adaptation of Tom Clancy’s The Hunt for Red October, after an F-14 had crashed on the deck of his aircraft carrier that was also carrying CIA analyst Jack Ryan, hero of that story and…
Lucian Chauvin BUENOS AIRES – Pope Francis may be nearly 7,000 miles from Argentina, his native land, but it certainly does not feel that way as the country gears up for a presidential election on October 22. While the Pope has strived to stay on the sidelines of political debates in Argentina, deciding against visiting…
After 37 years as a priest, I realise there is one area of my life and ministry where I could be diagnosed with scruples. This scrupulosity occurs when it comes to what priest and parish have to offer and ensuring that every family and individual gets treated exactly the same. Whether they come to Mass…
When former president Mary McAleese was asked – on The Late Late Show – about the prospects for a united Ireland, she was judicious in her reply: she would stick by the Good Friday Agreement, which stipulated that it must happen by democratic consent. But, she added, the demographics “were going in the right direction”.…
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