Anti-Semitic graffiti in London has brought “shame to us all”, Cardinal Vincent Nichols has said.
“There will be no peace if we do not hope,” Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle said at a New Year’s Eve Mass in Manila.
John Allen wonders if Pope Francis “might either travel to Syria, or invite Assad to Rome” this decade.
Patti Armstrong says that miracle-worker Blessed Solanus Casey “has struck again”.
George Weigel urges Catholics to ignore “the hysteria-mongers and propagandists” in 2020.
The discovery of a 4th-century church confirms the “Ethiopian tradition that Christianity arrived at an early date”, reports Smithsonian Magazine.
And a 15-year-old has composed a new setting of the Mass.
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