Europe

Italian municipality faces scrutiny over ‘Pride’ event involving children

Politicians in northern Italy have questioned a municipality’s support for an all-ages Pride event after reports that sexually explicit material was displayed in areas accessible to children

The Catholic Herald

Chesterton and the crisis of Western civilisation

As debates over wealth dominate public discourse, Chesterton’s account of civilisational decline points towards a different diagnosis and a different remedy

Backlash grows after Paris church hosts Nuit Blanche sound installation

A sound installation hosted in a Paris church during the city’s annual arts festival has reignited debate about the use of consecrated spaces for secular cultural events

Spanish priest faces protests after denying Communion to man in same-sex union

The parish priest said the public nature of the civil union was incompatible with the Church’s discipline for the Eucharist

Saturday Read: The young priest who would not abandon his flock

The life and death of Blessed János Brenner reveal the quiet courage of a young priest whose fidelity to his vocation outlasted the regime that sought to silence him

Belfast gripped by unrest after knife attack by Sudanese refugee

The riots were supported by both Protestant and Catholic groups who increasingly put aside their historical enmity

Embryos found in suitcase of man detained in Cyprus airport

A 24-year-old man was remanded after police allegedly found four human embryos in his luggage at Tymbou airport

The Catholic Herald

Spanish far Left criticises Pope Leo’s address

Pope Leo XIV defended life from conception, the seal of confession and Spain’s Catholic patrimony in a speech to parliamentarians

What the Sturgeon-Murrell story reveals about modern marriage

At the heart of the Sturgeon-Murrell story lies not only a political scandal, but a cultural question about what marriage is for

Michael J Robinson

Abbot stands firm in Transylvania

The head of Oradea’s Norbertine community says a dispute over Church property has become a test of religious freedom in modern Romania