Catholic News

Westminster reports Tyburn Nuns to Vatican over refusal to accept jabs against coronavirus

tyburn convent could face a vatican investigation after a majority of the nuns refused to accept vaccinations against covid-19. the enclosed...

Catholics campaign for presidential veto of abortion bill in Ecuador

the ecuadorian congress approved on february 17 the depenalization of abortion for victims of rape. the catholic church had made several eff...

Eduardo Campos Lima

Redemptorist relief: how a religious order is caring for refugees in Ukraine

in an unnamed town in war-scarred north-eastern ukraine, an enormous icon of our lady of perpetual succour watches over two dozen or so tire...

Russian bomb strikes Catholic headquarters in Ukrainian city of Kharkiv

a bomb has struck the headquarters of a catholic diocese on tuesday in the besieged ukrainian city of kharkiv. forty people were sheltering ...

Aid to the Church in Need gives £830,000 in emergency money to war-torn Ukraine

“thanks to the help of the world, ukraine resists, and we believe it will survive. here we have been helping the displaced, supplying air-ra...

The problem with ‘Pills by Post’

on 31 january 2022, the times reported that leading doctors were warning of “illegal abortions danger”. their concern was that regulations i...

Sir Stephen Stewart

Expanding the Orthodox empire

in 2016, i happened to be in karyes, capital of the monastic republic of mount athos, when vladimir putin swept into the small hilltop in a ...

Rescusants revisited

an aristocratic catholic friend once told me that his father would refer to a co-religionist landowner as “cousin x”, despite the family con...

An entertaining masterpiece that reveals sides of an extraordinary woman never before seen

maria theresa: the habsburg empress in her time barbara stollberg-rilinger, translated by robert savage princeton university press, £35, 110...

Violent suicides soar in countries where doctor-assisted dying is legalised, reveals study

legal euthanasia and assisted suicide have no impact on the reduction of violent suicides and might in fact increase their prevalence, a new...