Catholic Church

The Christmas Stories

there are all sorts of reasons why we choose the mass we usually go to: maybe it’s the music, or the lack of it, or the bells and smells, or...

Rev Dr Richard J Ounsworth

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 (pelican, 202...

Stephen Bullivant

Rhodes to past glories

'these islands are really heavenly when the weather allows,” wrote lawrence durrell about rhodes in 1946 when he was stationed in the dodeca...

Open your homes to refugees fleeing the Taliban, bishop urges the faithful

catholics in england and wales are to be asked to find homes for thousands of afghanistan refugees fleeing the taliban. parishes will be req...

Ethics committee authorizes first assisted suicide in Italy

the catholic church in italy said that life must be “protected and defended” after local health authorities in italy gave the green light to...

Hannah Brockhaus

RIP David Amess – a Requiem Mass for the Don Quixote of British Politics

on a crisp and sombre november day at a packed out westminster cathedral, his eminence cardinal nichols was the principal celebrant at the r...

Former priest files new sexual abuse lawsuit against Theodore McCarrick

a former catholic priest who has previously alleged that ex-cardinal theodore mccarrick sexually abused him when he was a seminarian has fil...

The last surviving Trappist monk from Algeria massacre has died at 97

father jean pierre schumacher, one of two monks who survived the tibhirine abbey massacre in algeria in 1996, has died at the age of 97. sch...

Faith leaders unite to ‘Pray for Dobbs,’ the case that could overturn Roe v Wade

catholic, orthodox, and protestant christians recently united for a day of prayer in anticipation for an upcoming u.s. supreme court case co...

Cordileone to Catholic students after boycott of pro-life assembly: 'Do not be victims of the culture'

san francisco, calif., nov 22, 2021 / 19:19 pm the archbishop of san francisco has encouraged students at a local catholic high school to re...