Europe

Cardinal says Church defines sexual morality too narrowly

Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich has said he 'would not define morality – especially sexual morality – as narrowly as the Church does today'
Niwa Limbu

Belgian bishops try to clear remaining debt for Pope Francis’s 2024 visit

The Belgian Bishops’ Conference has announced a new collection among the country's faithful to raise 800,000 euros ($940,000) to cover the remaining debts owed for the visit by Pope Francis last year
The Catholic Herald

Polish president meets Pope at Vatican amid political strife back home

After he was sworn in at the beginning of August, the new Polish president called for a 'sovereign Poland' and promised to 'fight those who are pushing the nation towards decline'
The Catholic Herald

Germany’s top bishop has first audience with Pope after defending abortion law  

Bishop Georg Bätzing recently described the country's law as ‘an intelligent balance’ between the rights of mothers and protection of unborn life
The Catholic Herald

Catholic churches in France have a bad landlord: the French government

In a fine example of Gallic counter-intuitiveness, almost all of France’s Catholic churches are owned by the State – and most don't appear to be doing well out of the unusual arrangement
The Catholic Herald

Denmark’s ‘spiritual rearmament’ offers important lessons to UK

Denmark is discovering what many nations in the West are about to learn: that a system built on comfort, entitlement and personal freedom can't inspire when hardship occurs
The Catholic Herald

Blasphemous opera with 'naked nuns on roller skates' wins critics’ award in Germany  

Its selection as 'Production of the Year' by German theatre critics comes after its premier left shocked audience members needing medical treatment
Niwa Limbu

Ancient cathedral unearthed beneath French market after 1,500 years

The discovery has been described by experts as of 'exceptional' importance for understanding the spread of Catholicism in France
The Catholic Herald

Denmark apologises to Greenland’s women for coercive birth control

It follows revelations that thousands of Inuit women and girls were subjected to coerced contraception in the form of intra-uterine 'coils' being fitted without consent
Niwa Limbu

SSPX responds to criticisms by Cardinal Arborelius

The cardinal asserted that the SSPX does not live and work in communion with the Holy See and that therefore the sacraments celebrated by its priests are 'valid but illicit'
Niwa Limbu

Protest at French church after FSSP clergy removed by bishop

Banners hang from railings around Notre-Dame de Valence as protests continue against what is viewed as diocese suppression of the FSSP-run church
Niwa Limbu

Majority of Austrians want schools to retain Christian festivals, survey shows

The survey has revealed overwhelming support for visible and communal expressions of Christianity in public life, while also highlighting a sharp divide between maintaining cultural tradition and adhering to personal faith
The Catholic Herald

Spain and Vatican finally reach agreement over Nuncio appointment

The Spanish government has finally unblocked the appointment of the Holy See’s new Apostolic Nuncio after months of diplomatic delay
Niwa Limbu

Benedictine nuns in Sweden offer spiritual refuge to anyone left ‘exhausted and empty’ by secularism

The Sisters welcome 'all those who are searching, the weary and those who long to draw near to God'
The Catholic Herald

Vox party leader lashes out at Spain's bishops for 'weakness' and 'silence'

Santiago Abascal has criticised the country’s bishops of being 'muzzled' by a combination of government grants and fallout from the Church’s sexual abuse crisis
The Catholic Herald

EU ‘must not impose’ says Bishop of Funchal

Niwa Limbu

Finland doesn’t have enough Catholic churches

Catholics in Finland are having to travel hundreds of miles to reach Mass as the Church struggles to meet the needs of a growing and scattered flock
The Catholic Herald

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