Announcements

Police to allow priests access to crime scenes following outcry over Sir David Amess murder

revised national guidelines for the college of policing will allow for sacramental access at crime scenes where operationally possible follo...

Odessa bishop claims Putin is "possessed by the Devil"

odessa, ukraine bishop stanislav shyrokoradiuk pulls no punches when asked about russian president putin's motivation for invading ukraine. ...

Aid to the Church in Need appoints new UK director

the uk office of a charity helping persecuted and other suffering christians has announced the appointment of its new chief executive. ...

Blair's Catholic 'Mr Fixit' gets jail for failing to pay £1million divorce settlement to aristocrat ex-wife

a high court judge has sentenced a catholic former millionaire to a year in jail after he failed to pay a divorce settlement to his aristocr...

Sainthood cause opens for Pakistani security guard who sacrificed his life to stop suicide bomber

when a suicide bomber attempted to enter a catholic church in pakistan in 2015, a 20-year-old volunteer security guard blocked him. “i will ...

Festive fortunes

when opera composers take up the bible it isn’t usually in search of spiritual instruction. nothing of the sort was on his mind when verdi r...

Syon: an English Eden

when the brigittine nuns and priests of syon abbey received their copies of the orcharde of syon in 1519, their world on the bank of the riv...

Unrepentant U.S. President Biden vows to promote abortion with 'every tool' at his disposal

president joe biden pledged to defend a so-called right to abortion and reaffirmed his commitment to the widespread availability of the proc...

Christine-Rousselle

Tribunal sides with Catholic nurse harassed by NHS bosses for wearing cross at work

an employment tribunal has ruled that an nhs trust harassed a catholic nurse and directly discriminated against her for wearing a cross neck...

The long shadow of Covid

i have recently been reading david spiegelhalter and anthony masters’  covid by numbers: making sense of the pandemic with data  (...

Stephen Bullivant