Europe

Dealing with war and refugees as a priest in Rhodes and Israel

the island of rhodes, in the aegean sea, has always been a gateway between east and west. as the parish priest here for the past 23 years, i...

Luke Gregory OFM

Did the King's speech bode well for his faithful subjects in 2024, a year that could prove momentous?

in the spirit of apocalyptic optimism, political pundits are prophesying not so much doom rather a great deal of civic excitement for this n...

On the ground with a movement raising the crucifix across the French countryside

last year across france an average of  one crucifix each day was restored by sos calvaires, a flourishing apostolate of young french ca...

The charms of a Tuscan Christmas

thanks to renaissance art, tuscany looks like everyone’s idea of christmas. the sheep still huddle in groups on the open hillsides, and are ...

John Martin Robinson

Rift widens over gay blessings as Hungarian bishops reject them but Indian cardinal says yes

india’s most senior cardinal has defended fiducia supplicans - the controversial new vatican text approving non-liturgical blessings for sam...

'On the fifth day of Christmas my true love sent to me'...The martyrdom of Saint Thomas Becket

on the fifth day of christmas, the carol sends to us five gold rings. it is also the day on which the church remembers st thomas becket, the...

James Willoughby

Christmas attacks against Christians in Nigeria leave at least 160 dead

yaoundè, cameroon ( crux ) – attacks across nigeria’s central plateau state on christmas eve left at least 160 people dead and about 300 oth...

Mongolia’s tiny Catholic community just got a Christmas Eve boost

ulaanbaatar – one of the world’s smallest catholic flocks is growing in number, after the mongolian church added three native women to its r...

Zelensky’s move against the Ukrainian Orthodox Church is a step too far

they say that desperate times call for desperate measures, and right now the situation in ukraine is getting increasingly desperate for pres...

Robert Amsterdam

'On the second day of Christmas my true love sent to me'...Good King Wenceslas, on the Feast of Stephen

try teaching the words of good king wenceslas to a ten-year-old ukrainian who’s still finding her way in english. i’d thought it would be ea...