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Vatican issues ‘clarification’ on same-sex blessings amid Fiducia Supplicans backlash

rome – less than a month after issuing an instruction outlining the reasoning and method for giving non-liturgical blessings to same-sex cou...

African bishops rebuke political leaders for 'multiple failures' across continent

yaoundè, cameroon – in offering hopes and prayers for a better 2024, the catholic bishops of africa delivered a largely searing judgment abo...

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'On the eighth day of Christmas my true love sent to me'...Fireworks followed by the dawn of New Year's Day

it is new year’s day. midnight has been marked with the usual eruption of noise. if there was silence in heaven for half an hour, there was ...

Irish-born Los Angeles bishop among 20 'missionaries' who died violently in 2023

a total of 20 missionaries – including an irish-born american bishop – died violently in the service of the faith during 2023, according to ...

New iconography course at Ealing Abbey aims to 'galvanise' Catholic art scene in UK

the declaration by the fathers of the second council of nicaea in ad 787 on the value of producing sacred images and art works is about to g...

Fiducia Supplicans: an exercise in smoke and mirrors, where spin becomes substance and appearance reality

st john henry newman once considered the possibility of the crisis that would emerge if a church council or a pope introduced a doctrine tha...

Pope’s end-of-year address to Church hierarchy: beware ‘rigid ideological positions’ that ‘prevent us from moving forward’

rome – in his annual christmas address to members of the roman curia, pope francis urged the church’s governing bureaucracy to be open to ch...

UK's Confraternity of Catholic Clergy publishes letter reaffirming traditional Church teaching after Fiducia Supplicans

an organisation representing some 500 priests in britain has released a signed letter reaffirming the church's teaching regarding marriage a...

After finding his 'Chesterton' feet, Italy’s top male model wants to be a priest

the phone in each of our pockets has become the magic mirror on the wall that we consult every hour of every day to ask: “who is the fairest...

Katherine Bennett

‘I want to shout to the world that I’m innocent’ convicted Cardinal tells TV show

rome — in his first major media engagement since being convicted of financial crimes by a vatican tribunal and sentenced to five and a half ...