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Euthanasia and assisted suicide contradict Christmas, Bishop Davies warns faithful
the bishop of shrewsbury in his christmas homily is to warn against renewed attempts to change the law to allow doc...
Simon Caldwell
Bishop arrested in Nicaragua after praying in public for imprisoned prelate
police in nicaragua have arrested and allegedly beaten a catholic bishop after he prayed in public for a brother bishop sentenced to life in...
Simon Caldwell
Christian villages in south Lebanon empty amid daily exchanges of rocket fire
up to 90 per cent of the population of southern lebanon’s christian villages have left their homes since october to seek safety from daily r...
The Catholic Herald
Israel accuses Latin Patriarch of 'blood libel' in row over sniper shootings of Gaza civilians
rome – days after two women were killed at the catholic parish in gaza, with local church authorities pinning blame on idf forces, israel’s ...
Elise Allen
Christmas Message of the Patriarchs and Heads of the Churches in Jerusalem
the following christmas message was released 21 december 2023 by the patriarchs and heads of the churches in jerusalem, in which they highli...
The Catholic Herald
Catholic teacher guilty of professional misconduct after refusing to indoctrinate children in extremist ideology
a catholic teacher was guilty of “unacceptable professional conduct”, a regulator has ruled, after she refused to teach extreme gender ideol...
Simon Caldwell
Fiducia Supplicans: an exercise in smoke and mirrors, where spin becomes substance and appearance reality
st john henry newman once considered the possibility of the crisis that would emerge if a church council or a pope introduced a doctrine tha...
Gavin Ashenden
Pope’s end-of-year address to Church hierarchy: beware ‘rigid ideological positions’ that ‘prevent us from moving forward’
rome – in his annual christmas address to members of the roman curia, pope francis urged the church’s governing bureaucracy to be open to ch...
Elise Allen
UK's Confraternity of Catholic Clergy publishes letter reaffirming traditional Church teaching after Fiducia Supplicans
an organisation representing some 500 priests in britain has released a signed letter reaffirming the church's teaching regarding marriage a...
Tom Colsy
No, the Church has not changed her doctrine on the liceity or blessing of same-sex unions
the vatican’s latest declaration bombshell, authored by one of the most senior clerics in the roman curia, has duped the international press...
Tom Colsy
After finding his 'Chesterton' feet, Italy’s top male model wants to be a priest
the phone in each of our pockets has become the magic mirror on the wall that we consult every hour of every day to ask: “who is the fairest...
Katherine Bennett
‘I want to shout to the world that I’m innocent’ convicted Cardinal tells TV show
rome — in his first major media engagement since being convicted of financial crimes by a vatican tribunal and sentenced to five and a half ...
Crux Staff
‘Urgent pleas’ from Catholic leaders for UK government to lift faith-based admissions cap
education secretary gillian keegan has met catholic leaders amid urgent pleas from the church to lift a highly contentious faith-based admis...
Simon Caldwell
Who would choose to be a Catholic at a time like this?
the phoney war is over. civil war has been launched within the church by pope francis and his recent appointee cardinal victor fernandez.&nb...
Gavin Ashenden
Vatican’s doctrinal czar parses details for enabling same-sex blessings
rome – after pope francis earlier this year opened the door in certain circumstances to giving blessings to same-sex couples, the vatican’s ...
Elise Allen
Cardinal Nichols ‘heartbroken’ over attack on Gaza’s only Catholic church that he knows personally
leicester, crux – cardinal vincent nichols, the leader of the uk's roman catholics, says he is “heartbroken” over the attack on a catholic c...
Charles Collins
Pesellino's work is spectacular: alas, we shall never know what else might have been
francesco di stefano, known as pesellino, first established his reputation and that of his workshop in florence through small-scale devotion...
William Davie
Advent and the 'Great Paradigm Shift'
there is an old story told about the dilemma of a monkey reaching down through the narrow neck of a glass jar to grab the alluring beads con...
Gavin Ashenden
Vatican trial raises the question: Is Pope Francis ‘Great Reformer’ or ‘Great Restorer’?
rome – anyone who’s ever read or seen inherit the wind knows that almost 100 years ago, a celebrated trial took place in the ame...
John Allen
The plight of Christians in the Holy Land this Christmas
this editorial from the catholic herald reflects on the attack on christians in gaza yesterday. there is one part of the church where the ce...
The Catholic Herald
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