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Police apologise to Catholic woman six months after arrest for silent prayer

the police have finally apologised to catholic woman arrested for praying silently outside a closed abortion clinic in birmingham. following...
Simon Caldwell

‘Take that, schismatics!’

the right and the left in america are equally partisan about pope francis. whatever else has occurred during the present papacy, the catholi...
Ken Craycraft

A Christian country?: The CofE shows us why not to cave to the spirit of the age

recently the times newspaper reported on the findings of its survey of 1,200 clerics of the church of england. among the dispiriting results...
The Catholic Herald

Germany: Catholic clergy defy Church and affirm same-sex couples at Cologne Cathedral

several clerics from the archdiocese of cologne have joined representatives of protestant denominations in a ceremony to affirm same-sex cou...
Tom Colsy

Rupnik centre gets 'clean bill of health' from Diocese of Rome with doubts raised over excommunication

rome – despite being expelled in july from his jesuit order over charges of sexual, spiritual and psychological abuse, famed slovenian artis...
Crux Staff

Seriously ill teenager dies fighting mental competence ruling in UK court

a 19-year-old woman with a rare disease has died during a legal fight to circumvent a ruling that she was not competent to make decisions ab...
The Catholic Herald

Archbishop of Mombasa decries official recognition of Kenyan gay-rights group

a leading catholic prelate in kenya, who’s set to take part in a vatican synod of bishops next month, has objected to a ruling by the countr...
Ngala Killian Chimtom

Vatican and China discuss resumption of grain exports from Russia and Ukraine

pope francis’s peace envoy has met government officials in china to discuss how to restart a deal to allow ukraine and russia to export grai...
Crux Staff

Senior bishop chastises France and Germany over inhospitality to boat migrants

a senior european bishop has criticised france and germany for failing to provide “a fair solution” to the problem of migrants arriving in t...
The Catholic Herald

Cardinal Müller on Synod: 'This is the great hour of manipulation'

on tuesday cardinal müller gave a frank interview to spanish catholic news website i nfovaticana, in which he has expressed his grave concer...
The Catholic Herald

Church rushes to Morocco's aid after devastating earthquake

yaoundè, cameroon – as morocco continues to struggle to cope with its worst earthquake to strike a major urban centre in a century, which so...
Ngala Killian Chimtom

Pope's Ukraine envoy to meet Chinese premier on Wednesday

rome – an italian newspaper reported tuesday morning that pope francis’s personal envoy for the conflict in ukraine, cardinal matteo zuppi, ...
Crux Staff

Bandits murder seminarian at Nigerian presbytery

a seminarian died last night when extremists torched a presbytery in nigeria’s kafanchan diocese. the incident took place about 8pm on septe...
The Catholic Herald

Jesuits find list of thousands of Jews saved from Holocaust by wartime Pope

a list naming thousands of jews sheltered by catholics in wartime rome has been discovered, adding further evidence of the heroism of venera...
The Catholic Herald

'Alert and conscious' 19-year-old put on death pathway against her will

a judge has ruled that an “alert and conscious” adult woman does not have mental capacity because she disagrees with doctors who want to put...
Simon Caldwell

Pope Francis kicks off 'hot autumn' at the Vatican

rome – as summer winds down in rome and the city fills up with reluctant vacationers getting back to the grind, pope francis has kicked off ...
Elise Ann Allen

Small is beautiful: Pope Francis's encouragement for Mongolian Catholics

ulaanbaatar – on his second full day in mongolia, pope francis met with pastors and missionaries who serve the country’s tiny catholic flock...
Elise Allen

Pope Francis welcomed to Mongolia: Chinese Christians make perilous journey

rome – a group of chinese catholics were so thrilled to see the pope close to home that they invented excuses to make the trip to mongolia, ...
Elise Allen

Kidnapped Nigerian priest and seminarian released by captors

a priest and a seminarian kidnapped in nigeria’s middle belt have been released after three weeks in captivity. fr paul sanogo and brother m...
The Catholic Herald

Joseph Roth: Riddles and reinvention

endless flight: the life of joseph roth keiron pim granta, £25, 544 pages it is easiest to imagine joseph roth – the most elegaic writer of ...
John Ritzema

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