Thomas Edwards

Church of the Holy Sepulchre closed amid regional escalation ahead of Holy Week

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre has been closed for weeks following military escalation between Israel and Iran, raising concerns over access to one of Christianity’s holiest sites during Holy Week

Silent disco planned at church in cemetery where Beethoven is buried

A silent disco will take place inside a Catholic church at Vienna’s Central Cemetery, where Beethoven is buried

Ted Cruz launches bizarre attack on Catholic integralism

Ted Cruz has promoted a sprawling essay attacking Catholic integralism, but the claims conflate theology with extremism and misrepresent both the tradition and its place in the Church’s teaching

Minister invited to preach at the Pentagon calls for US ban on Marian processions

Douglas Wilson, a Reformed pastor invited to preach at the Pentagon, has suggested banning Marian processions in a future Protestant America, describing them as “public displays of idolatry”

Sedevacantist Spanish nuns leave convent after eviction battle

After almost two years of controversy, the Poor Clare sisters of Belorado in northern Spain have departed their convent, ending almost 700 years of uninterrupted religious life in the town

Abbey of La Trappe, mother house of the Trappist Order, considering closure in 2028

After more than 900 years of history, the Abbey of La Trappe in Normandy, the mother house of the Trappist Order, is considering closure in 2028

The sisters taking on abuse in the Catholic Church

Two former Pauline Sisters have founded a new religious community devoted to confronting spiritual abuse, supporting survivors and restoring trust in the Church

Fr Bruno Kant: the Church’s second supercentenarian priest

Fr Bruno Kant has become the Church’s second supercentenarian priest, living through 10 pontificates and more than 75 years of priestly ministry

Reversing the trend? Ireland appears to be coming back to the Faith

A new report is a cause for hope in the Catholic Church in Ireland

Conservative Anglicans prepare to challenge Sarah Mullally with rival leader

The conservative Anglican movement GAFCON is meeting in Nigeria this week to appoint a new primus inter pares, a direct challenge to the leadership of incoming Archbishop of Canterbury Sarah Mullally

Excommunicated Spanish nuns return to the Church

After a period of conversion, the Archbishop of Burgos announced the return of the sisters who had broken away from Rome in May 2024

The network helping ex-Muslims become Catholic

The St Nicholas Tavelić Network is working across the world to support Muslims who leave Islam

Celebrations to mark 400th anniversary of St Peter’s Basilica announced

Cardinal Mauro Gambetti has unveiled a year of liturgical, cultural and pastoral initiatives to mark 400 years since the consecration of St Peter’s Basilica by Pope Urban VIII in 1626

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