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Jesuits blast seizure of university in Nicaragua over 'terrorism' charge
rome – on wednesday the jesuit-run university of central america (uca) in nicaragua issued a statement condemning a government decree confis...
Elise Allen
Politician who calls Pope 'imbecile' and 'son of a b*' comes out top in Argentine primaries
são paulo – catholics in argentina appear both somewhat startled and also divided by the surprising recent success of a firebrand politician...
Eduardo Campos Lima
Renewed crackdown on Christians in Iran underway
britain is an increasingly impoverished society: spiritually and financially. still, anyone born here has won the historic lottery relativel...
Georgia L. Gilholy
Mass exodus as mobs burn churches and homes in Pakistan
up to 15 church buildings have been attacked and hundreds of christian homes destroyed after extremists went on the rampage in pakistan. chr...
John Pontifex
Unemployed Gänswein returns to spotlight and jokes he is looking for work
german archbishop georg gänswein, the former private secretary to the late pope benedict xvi, has made his first public appearance since bei...
Elise Allen
The Lancet's misguided invocation of Gramsci
earlier this year, the lancet , a 200-year-old medical journal, carried an editorial entitled, “we must engage in a war of posi...
Anthony McCarthy
Ark of the Covenant: keeping Our Lady's Assumption with Benedict XVI
we celebrate today one of the oldest and best loved of the feasts dedicated to mary most holy: the feast of her assumption into the glory of...
The Catholic Herald
Poor formation in faith has left Church too weak to fight, says San Francisco archbishop
inadequate religious education and formation of u.s. catholics in their faith has weakened the church when it is being “explicitly attacked”...
Simon Caldwell
Indian Church appeals for end of 'ethnic cleansing' of Christian tribes
an archbishop in north-east india, who has seen his diocese at the centre of a wave of deadly attacks, has issued an urgent appeal for praye...
The Catholic Herald
'Promoting synodality': US and Japanese bishops call for end to nuclear weapons
the ruins of nagasaki cathedral after the destruction of the city by a nuclear bomb on 9 august 1945. getty images 78 years after the atomic...
John Lavenburg
Sicilian bishop dedicates parish to 'martyrs' of the Mafia
rome – in the heart of italy’s mob country, a new catholic parish is being dedicated to the premier patron saints of the anti-mafia effort, ...
John L Allen
The unexpected return of Christian ethics
the church has been fighting a losing battle in the west over culture, belief and ethics. but rather surprisingly, there are reasons for thi...
Gavin Ashenden
Bishops fight to scrap cap on faith-based admissions to Catholic schools
senior bishops have added their weight to a campaign to scrap a notorious cap on faith-based admissions to new catholic schools. in 2010 the...
Simon Caldwell
We need to do more to educate young Catholics in the Faith
i have just returned from lourdes where we (representatives of the brentwood diocese) joined the annual diocesan pilgrimage along with sever...
Mark Lambert
US Catholic couple sues after being blocked from adopting children due to religious beliefs
new york – a massachusetts catholic couple has sued the state, alleging that they were blocked from adopting children through the state’s fo...
John Lavenburg
Vatican announces changes to canon law which may affect Opus Dei
the 90,000 lay members and roughly 2,000 priests of opus dei, a worldwide catholic organisation which is currently the church’s lone persona...
Crux Staff
Chaldean Patriarch says withdrawal of recognition of his role is climax of campaign to seize Church's assets
the leader of iraq’s largest christian community has condemned a presidential order overturning a decree which recognises him as patriarch, ...
Olenka Hamilton
Lisbon notebook: Pilgrims in the park
saturday 5th august parque tejo trancão, lisbon – from around 4pm the transition from bustling racket to eerie stillness on the streets of l...
Tom Colsy
Synodality: a new perestroika?
it is notoriously risky to compare two large historical movements, especially recent or contemporary ones, and to claim to detect similariti...
Martin Henry
Pope says maintaining Church teaching on ordination and marriage not a sign of closed-mindedness
papal plane – returning from lisbon on sunday, pope francis insisted that maintaining the church's traditional teachings on ordination and m...
Elise Ann Allen
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