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Rowan Williams: Why my favourite book of the bible is the Second Epistle to the Corinthians
st paul’s second letter to the church in corinth is one of the most unusual documents of the ancient world. it displays a painful vulnerabil...
Rowan Williams
Finnish politician on trial for 'hate speech' for defending traditional marriage
finnish politician päivi räsänen is on trial this week for “hate speech” and “ethnic agitation” after publicly sharing in 2019 her biblical,...
Olenka Hamilton
Why capital punishment is not the answer to evil
inflicting harm for harm's sake is anathema to human nature. we recoil from people who relish causing deliberate but needless pai...
Nicholas Reed Langen
Heaven, earth and harvest: Praise and thanksgiving in the cycle of rural life
as our international readers will know, the european summer was caricatured by certain news outlets as a pre-apocalyptic hellscape with soar...
Serenhedd James
Moscow thanks Pope for 'balanced approach' to war in Ukraine
rome – russian spokespersons have praised what they called pope francis’s “balanced approach” to the war in ukraine, in the wake of protests...
Crux Staff
The rampant anti-Catholicism of the French Left
on the morning of 8 june this year, henri d’anselme heard a commotion in an annecy playground. the 24-year-old frenchman then saw something ...
Gavin Mortimer
Ortega boots Jesuits out of Nicaragua
rome – a week after nicaragua’s government confiscated a prestigious jesuit-run university, it has officially expelled the society of jesus ...
Elise Allen
Pakistani Bishops announce Day of Prayer for "peace and harmony" in wake of mob violence
rome – after angry mobs of muslims attacked a series of christian homes and churches in pakistan on wednesday 16 august, the country’s catho...
Elise Allen
Violent attacks on Christians in Pakistan "co-ordinated and meticulously planned"
pakistan - evidence emerging from pakistan’s jaranwala district is pointing towards a comprehensive attempt to force the ejection of each an...
John Pontifex
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
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
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
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
"A stone in the shoe": the Francis revolution
rome — a broad consensus regards pope francis, who today wraps up a five-day trip to lisbon for world youth day, as a revolutionary figure. ...
John L Allen
Russian Orthodox bishop thanks Francis for his "support of the Ukrainian people"
lisbon – during a meeting with interreligious leaders on friday morning in lisbon, pope francis spoke to a russian orthodox bishop who voice...
Elise Ann Allen
Priests must play soccer, not preach dogma, says Pope in broadside against traditionalists
rome – pope francis has attacked the “corruption” of restorationist movements within the church and said the second vatican council has not ...
Crux Staff
Clerical eco-activists and taking God's name in vain
it is not easy to watch pictures of an elderly protestant clergywoman, sporting her dog collar, being arrested for breaching the peace as sh...
Gavin Ashenden
New-look Princes of the Church
in a flurry of pontifical activity, the pope has named 21 new cardinals – one of them archbishop fernández, the new head of the dicast...
The Catholic Herald
Pope Francis delivers surprise Facebook live message
rome – by now, pope francis’s novel use of media should surprise no one – except, perhaps, his official pr personnel, who are constantly bei...
Crux Staff
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