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'Catholicism in Numbers': New data highlights the changing Catholic Church in Britain and Ireland
a new set of pastoral statistics regarding the catholic church in england and wales, scotland and ireland has been released by the catholic ...
TimKinnear
'On the eighth day of Christmas my true love sent to me'...Fireworks followed by the dawn of New Year's Day
it is new year’s day. midnight has been marked with the usual eruption of noise. if there was silence in heaven for half an hour, there was ...
vivboland
New UK director of Word on Fire hopes to set Britain on fire
katherine bennett talks to brenden thompson, the new uk director of word on fire, about establishing the ministry here. in the nowhere place...
Katherine Bennett
Irish-born Los Angeles bishop among 20 'missionaries' who died violently in 2023
a total of 20 missionaries – including an irish-born american bishop – died violently in the service of the faith during 2023, according to ...
Simon Caldwell
'On the seventh day of Christmas my true love sent to me'...WB Yeats's poem 'The Mother of God'
the threefold terror of love; a fallen flare through the hollow of an ear; wings beating about the room; the terror of all terrors that i bo...
The Catholic Herald
On the ground with a movement raising the crucifix across the French countryside
last year across france an average of one crucifix each day was restored by sos calvaires, a flourishing apostolate of young french ca...
Thomas Edwards
The charms of a Tuscan Christmas
thanks to renaissance art, tuscany looks like everyone’s idea of christmas. the sheep still huddle in groups on the open hillsides, and are ...
John Martin Robinson
'On the sixth day of Christmas my true love sent to me'...Antonia Fraser and Uncle John's Trousers
"christmas comes but once a year," my mother was apt to sing out on st stephen's day, "but when it comes, it brings good cheer!" we children...
Antonia Fraser
Ortega arrests two senior priests in continued crackdown on Nicaraguan clergy
police in nicaragua have arrested two more catholic priests after they prayed in public for a bishop jailed for life when he refused to go i...
Simon Caldwell
Rift widens over gay blessings as Hungarian bishops reject them but Indian cardinal says yes
india’s most senior cardinal has defended fiducia supplicans - the controversial new vatican text approving non-liturgical blessings for sam...
Simon Caldwell
'On the fifth day of Christmas my true love sent to me'...The martyrdom of Saint Thomas Becket
on the fifth day of christmas, the carol sends to us five gold rings. it is also the day on which the church remembers st thomas becket, the...
James Willoughby
Christmas attacks against Christians in Nigeria leave at least 160 dead
yaoundè, cameroon ( crux ) – attacks across nigeria’s central plateau state on christmas eve left at least 160 people dead and about 300 oth...
Ngala Chimtom
Pope offers usual Christmas message of hope while lamenting ‘the little Jesuses of today’ lost to war, migration and abortion
at the end of a year marked by the outbreak of fresh wars and by various personal health crises, pope francis at christmas offered a message...
Elise Ann Allen
Mongolia’s tiny Catholic community just got a Christmas Eve boost
ulaanbaatar – one of the world’s smallest catholic flocks is growing in number, after the mongolian church added three native women to its r...
Elise Allen
Bethlehem Dispatch: A muted Christmas 'bereft its usual festive splendour'
bethlehem's main square is bereft its usual festive splendour and twinkling red, green and white lights. usually bustling this time of year ...
MariamElsayehIbrahim
Zelensky’s move against the Ukrainian Orthodox Church is a step too far
they say that desperate times call for desperate measures, and right now the situation in ukraine is getting increasingly desperate for pres...
Robert Amsterdam
Staying connected to the Christian message of 'A Christmas Carol'
on this day 180 years ago charles dickens gave his first public reading of a christmas carol . just two days after christmas, around 2...
Laura Perrins
'On the third day of Christmas my true love sent to me'...St John, Apostle of the Word Made Flesh
o god, who through the blessed apostle john have unlocked for us the secrets of your word, grant, we pray, that we may grasp with proper und...
Fr Richard Ounsworth OP
Light in the darkness: war in the Holy Land brings the Incarnation into clearer focus
an apocryphal story, one of my favourites, has been doing the rounds in diplomatic circles for decades. late one advent in the middle of the...
Serenhedd James
'On the second day of Christmas my true love sent to me'...Good King Wenceslas, on the Feast of Stephen
try teaching the words of good king wenceslas to a ten-year-old ukrainian who’s still finding her way in english. i’d thought it would be ea...
Noonie Minogue
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