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Is being a nurse a ‘calling’ and does that explain current problems with British nursing?
i felt called to nursing. or you could even call it a vocation, though it preceded my conversion to christianity and catholicism. i fear, th...
rogerwatson
On Pilgrimage With: Peter Stanford
where would you go? i was fortunate, a few years ago, to pay a very brief visit to lalibela. i was on a work trip as a journalis...
Peter Stanford
First ever papal trip to Vietnam likely after thaw in bilateral relations
rome – after meeting vietnamese officials, a top vatican diplomat has said he will travel to vietnam this spring as the two countries contin...
Elise Allen
Africans praise peer for demanding end to Nigeria's Christian 'genocide'
yaoundè, cameroon — a leading catholic research entity in africa has welcomed the call by a british catholic politician for urgent action to...
Ngala Chimton / Crux
Record number of Catholic priests arrested, abducted or murdered in 2023
last year 132 priests and religious were arrested, abducted or killed globally, according to latest research. belarus, china, nicaragua and ...
The Catholic Herald
Avarice and apathy: Post Office scandal reveals a loveless culture in need of Catholic virtue
the new year in the uk began with a scandal that has been described as the “worst’ or “most widespread” miscarriage of justice in british hi...
Tom Colsy
In the face of calls to abolish, the Church must remember clerical celibacy is a gift from God
there are many angles from which to analyse clerical celibacy today and the suggestions by some that it's high time to end the practice. i w...
Fr David Howell
US Bishops highlight nationwide threats to religious liberty
new york – a first-of-its-kind report from the u.s. bishops’ conference spotlights religious freedom concerns nationwide. it highlights a pa...
johnlavenburg
Italians bishops counter Pope by promoting sacked CDF secretary
italian bishops appear to have delivered a snub to pope francis by promoting a vatican official who the pope sacked months after the officia...
Simon Caldwell
Ecuadorian Catholics negotiate and pray during prison riot crisis
são paulo, brazil – one week after a drug lord escaped from prison and detonated an unprecedented crisis of violence in ecuador, local catho...
EduardoCamposLima
Unexpected Santander Angelus amid echoes of Covid mania
in the bottom-left corner of the cathedral's nave an old priest sat on a wooden chair with a shawl wrapped around his shoulders against the ...
James Jeffrey
As with the Sexual Revolution, we must heed ‘slippery slope’ warnings about assisted suicide
there are determined moves to make assisted suicide legal in both the uk and in ireland. in advance of any legal decision, the irish medical...
Anthony McCarthy
How the stolen Parish Missal was returned to the people of Groix
last summer, in a packed church on a small island in brittany, the local mayor presented an englishman with the medal of groix, its name tak...
Thomas Edwards
Prayers answered: Nicaraguan bishop imprisoned for life gains freedom, though exiled to Vatican
nicaragua has released a bishop jailed for 26 years after he stood up to the regime of president daniel ortega. bishop rolando álvarez of ma...
Simon Caldwell
Cameroon bishops denounce Boko Haram atrocities as terrorist group wages war to create African ‘Islamic caliphate’
yaoundè – catholic bishops in the west african nation of cameroon, which has been gripped by civil conflict for the past seven years, have d...
Ngala Chimton / Crux
New tricks bring an old Da Vinci to life in Amsterdam
william cash soaks up the sights and sounds of a new immersive leonardo da vinci show in amsterdam. following the success of such immersive ...
William Cash
New poll finds Pope’s unfavourable rating among Americans at all-time high
new york – a new survey conducted this past december has found that while most american adults still have a favourable view of pope francis,...
johnlavenburg
Bishop Erik Varden: Christians are called to inaugurate a new world and rise through Chrismastide
each year, we begin advent singing the introit for its first sunday: ad te levavi . it sets a verse from psalm 24: “to you have i lifted up ...
Bishop Erik Varden
Disgraced former cardinal Theodore McCarrick deemed not competent to stand trial in abuse case
new york – a wisconsin judge on 10 january suspended a sexual assault case against theodore mccarrick after a court-appointed psychologist f...
johnlavenburg
What are we to make of the exotic and sensually esoteric theology of Cardinal Fernández?
the exotic contents of mystical passion: spirituality and sensuality written 25 years ago by now-cardinal víctor manuel fer...
Gavin Ashenden
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