Gaza

Hallowed in the womb: John the Baptist represents the whole history of Israel

the nativity of st john the baptist falls on june 24. almost every sermon on this occasion remarks that it is an unusual thing to celebrate ...

Fr Richard Ounsworth OP

Pax Christi USA wins inaugural Dorothy Day Peacemaker Award

nearly 50 years after dorothy day spoke at pax christi usa’s first conference in 1973, the organisation has been awarded the inaugural dorot...

A busy week in Rome: World Children's Day, China, Palestine and a distinct lack of taxis

rome – sometimes a week on the vatican beat doesn’t offer up one grand narrative, but instead supplies a series of vignettes illustrating th...

The Acts of the Spirit: A dramatic sequel to the Gospels, with St Stephen to the fore

throughout the easter season we read large chunks of the acts of the apostles, and this month we celebrate two of the events related therein...

Fr Richard Ounsworth OP

Israel objects to Catholic 'moral blindness' to Hamas terror

rome – just as israel continues to deploy its military “hard power” on the gaza strip, defying international pressure to back down, so too i...

Israel protests talk of Gaza ‘genocide’ by Nobel Prize winner during Vatican event

rome – in the latest episode of tension between israel and the vatican over the conflict in gaza, israel’s embassy to the holy see issued a ...

Holy Land Cardinal criticises anti-Israel protests on US university campuses

rome – cardinal pierbattista pizzaballa of jerusalem has criticised the anti-israel protests taking place on college and university campuses...

War has become 'a way of life’ in Holy Land

war in gaza has become a “way of life,” says a franciscan priest in the holy land. “the holy land has been at war for almost seven months,” ...

The Catholic Herald

New York cardinal shelters from Iranian drone attack during trip to Holy Land

new york – cardinal timothy dolan of new york said he and those he traveled with to the holy land “feel safe and secure” in bethlehem, after...

‘Something has gone truly, terribly wrong’: the latest outbreak of anti-Semitism in Britain

the atrocities committed by hamas on 7 october 2023 and the subsequent israeli invasion of gaza mark a turning point not just in the fraught...