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Assisted suicide counselling via Zoom an even worse idea, foes tell Scottish lawmakers

edinburgh, scotland, oct 19, 2021 / 18:00 pm videophone evaluations are no way to assess someone for assisted suicide, critics have said, al...

October Diary: Reflecting on the plight of refugees

i was in vienna for a few days last month and kept seeing the stumbling stones, brass cobbles with the names and dates of death of the jews ...

Anna Somers Cocks

Social unrest appeased in Colombia, but crisis goes on

in april, massive demonstrations exploded in cali and in several colombian cities. a combination of rising poverty, political dissatisfactio...

Eduardo Campos Lima

William, it was really something

oh william! by elizabeth strout viking penguin, £14.99, 256 pages ________ the best-known and certainly the most dramatic novel about a form...

Cressida Connolly

Pope's 'moment of shame' as vast scale of child abuse in French Church is revealed

a bombshell report which claimed french priests, and teachers and lay workers sexually abused a third of a million children since 1950 repre...

Pope Francis to theologians: See ‘contemporary challenges in light of the Wisdom of the Cross’

vatican city, sep 21, 2021 / 04:10 am pope francis urged theologians gathering in rome on tuesday to promote “a renewed understanding of con...

Catholic diocese rejoices as priest is freed barely 24 hours after kidnapping

kafanchan, nigeria, sep 16, 2021 / 03:10 am a nigerian catholic priest kidnapped at his parish residence on monday has been freed. the pries...

Sayonara to the suit

we are told, by some of the more optimistic of our fashion pundits, that the end of covid will unleash a rush of extravagance and dandyism a...

Spanish bishop reportedly living with erotic novel author

solsona, spain, sep 8, 2021 / 17:01 pm it has been widely reported that bishop xavier novell gomà, who resigned as bishop of solsona last mo...

Pope Francis: Mary teaches us to listen to the voice of the voiceless

the vatican released a message from pope francis on wednesday as the church celebrates the nativity of the blessed virgin mary. “the true jo...