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Respect marriage and unborn if you want civil harmony, Pope tells diplomats
pope leo xiv has said that peaceful civil societies cannot be built up and maintained without investing in traditional marriage and protecti...
The Catholic Herald
Kidnappers demand huge ransom for release of Cameroon priest
yaoundé, cameroon – unidentified gunmen are demanding $42,750 in ransom payment as a condition for the release of a kidnapped priest. father...
Ngala Killian Chimtom
Will the new Leo elevate Leo XIII's Cardinal Newman to a Doctor of the Church?
on 12 may 1879, pope leo xiii raised john henry newman to the sacred college of cardinals. the biglietto which he received from the secretar...
Fr James Bradley
Pope chose 'Leo' in response to 'new revolution' in artificial intelligence
rome – in a meeting with the college of cardinals saturday, two days after his election to the papacy, pope leo xiv explained that he chose ...
Elise Allen
Leo XIV, the first American Pope
cardinal robert francis prevost, 69, has been elected the 267th pope of the roman catholic church. he has taken the papal name of pope leo x...
The Catholic Herald
India showed ‘considerable restraint’ in Kashmir strikes, claims archbishop
a catholic archbishop in india says the government “has demonstrated considerable restraint in selection of targets and method of execution”...
Nirmala Carvalho
Does the Holy Spirit choose the Pope? Pope Benedict’s surprising answer
there is an odd but prevalent fascination with the catholic church’s claim to miraculous divine intervention. the dogma of papal infallibili...
Gavin Ashenden
Pope Francis’s popemobile transformed into mobile clinic for Gaza children
one of pope francis’ popemobiles is to be transformed into a mobile clinic for children in gaza. not long before his death, pope francis don...
The Catholic Herald
'We need clarity': Fr Gerry Murray on Francis, Trump and this week's conclave
rome. we are in the midst of sede vacante, and i am sitting in the hot, early lunchtime roman sunshine with fr gerald murray, one of america...
William Cash
Papabile of the Day: Cardinal Cristóbal López Romero, 'the Man from Morocco'
both geographically and historically, the region of andalusia in spain is a crossroads of humanity. bordering both the atlantic ocean and th...
John L Allen
What on earth was Trump thinking posting a picture of himself as pope?
there is an old idiom at universities in the united states: “sophomores act sophomoric.” it means young people in their late teens often do ...
Charles Collins
Papabile of the Day: Cardinal Mario Grech, the 'Maltese Falcon' full of surprises
each day between now and the may 7 conclave to elect a successor to pope francis, we are running a profile of a different “papabile”, the it...
John L Allen
Cameroon faces rising threat from Boko Haram, says bishop
yaoundé, cameroon – cameroon is continuing to be attacked by the islamist organization boko haram, and the situation is getting worse, accor...
Ngala Killian Chimtom
Brazil’s Indigenous peoples mourn Pope Francis: ‘a prophet who stood with us'
são paulo – among the social groups that have lamented pope francis’s death in brazil, the indigenous peoples seem to be especially impacted...
EduardoCamposLima
Judgement and identity: how we lost our grip on nature, liberty and the human person
judgement early in dostoyevsky’s masterpiece the devils, a meeting of “incredibly vain” and well-lubricated “new men” is recalled: “they tal...
Anthony McCarthy
‘Papabile’ of the Day: Cardinal Péter Erdő
it is a matter of historical record that, years before the conclave of 2005 which elected cardinal joseph ratzinger as pope benedict xvi, a ...
John L Allen
'Poor' to honour Francis at papal funeral
rome – tradition holds that during the anti-christian persecution of roman emperor valerian in 258, st lawrence, when given three days to ro...
Elise Allen
The media's selective understanding of a complexed pope
the death of pope francis leaves us with some very different narratives and perspectives of who he was and how we might assess his life and ...
Gavin Ashenden
Papabile of the day: Cardinal Zuppi
rome – fundamentally, every conclave shapes up as a referendum on the papacy that just ended: do we want to keep going in the same direction...
John L Allen
Science, contraception, and the missed opportunity of Vatican II
the increasing pace of scientific discoveries, including the race to put a man on the moon in the late 1950s, meant that there was widesprea...
Patrick Pullicino
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