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India's Christians panicked by 10-year jail terms for 'unlawful conversion'

mumbai, india – a christian organisation in india is against a plan by the state government in uttar pradesh to increase the penalties for “...

Nirmala Carvalho

The problem with 'dreaming' for the Church to change to suit your whims

dear reader, i come to you today as a white, irish, heterosexual, middle-aged woman with protruding teeth, greying hair, a minus 7 prescript...

Katherine Bennett

Peruvian bishops ask for loosening of church restrictions

lima, peru, mar 21, 2021 / 04:39 pm mt (cna).- the peruvian bishops’ conference has asked president francisco sagasti to correct “excessive ...

The Latin Mass Society's annual pilgrimage to Walsingham gets bigger every year

as i write this, i am still steeped in the elation and buzz of a typically strong afterglow. i have gloria, laus et honor , te deum laudamus...

I Judge No One: A Political Life of Jesus, by David Lloyd Dusenbury

i judge no one: a political life of jesus david lloyd dusenbury hurst and co, £25, 312 pages the “political jesus” of 1970s liberation theol...

Alexander Faludy

On Pilgrimage With: Buchi Akpati

where would you go?  saint peter’s basilica in rome.  would you make any special stops?  first, to the scavi to venerate the ...

The Catholic Herald

Minneapolis reels in wake of shooting: Archbishop Hebda appeals for calm

the city of minneapolis is again reeling after a police officer shot daunte wright, a 20-year-old black man, during a traffic stop. police s...

Here's to St Bernard of Clairvaux: celebrating the Cistercians and their Chardonnay

there can be few men who have had a larger impact on civilisation with almost no fanfare than the great st bernard of clairvaux: a doctor of...

Pope Francis in Iraq: Mass at Chaldean Cathedral of St Joseph

pope francis presided over divine liturgy on saturday afternoon at the chaldean cathedral of baghdad, wearing chaldean vestments and attende...

Christopher Altieri

Our growth in divine life involves suffering and death to our disordered desires

"how he does not know" (mark 4:27) in sunday’s gospel, jesus compares the mysterious growth of his life in us to the process of seeds sprout...

Fr David Howell