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Video: ‘Are you praying for unborn children?’ police ask Catholic woman

October 27, 2023

A police officer has interrogated a woman outside an abortion clinic for silent prayer, saying, “Are you praying for the lives of unborn children?” Footage obtained by the Christian legal advocacy group, ADF has shown Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, being interrogated by a woman Police Community Support Officer employed by West Midlands police for silently praying outside a

Sixteen Christians killed in air raid on Gaza

October 20, 2023

An air raid on Gaza has destroyed a Church building killing Christians who were sheltering there. At least 16 Christians, including 10 from one family, were killed during an attack on Thursday evening, which provoked the total collapse of a building in the compound of the Greek Orthodox Church. According to Aid to the Church

Cardinal Pizzaballa: For Christians in Gaza, the great temptation is to look for a better future elsewhere

October 16, 2023

Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the highest representative of the Catholic Church in the Holy Land, happened to be in Italy on the day of Hamas’s attack on Israel and the beginning of this Israeli-Palestinian conflict. However, he managed to return to Jerusalem a week ago, where he had left at the end

Cameroon bishop: Stop migration by creating jobs in Africa

October 13, 2023

A bishop has appealed to European governments to help slow migration across the Mediterranean by creating jobs in Africa. Bishop Bruno Ateba of Maroua-Mokolo, northern Cameroon, said that if young Africans are not given hope they will continue to flee poverty. He said that “if people were to have access to jobs and economic opportunities

James L Buckley 1923-2023: A great defender of life

October 09, 2023

Former US Senator James Lane Buckley died on August 18 at the age of 100. In 1970 he ran for the Senate as a candidate for the Conservative Party of New York, which had been founded in 1962 by local dissatisfied Republicans; an improbable victory after his opponents split the liberal vote made Buckley the

The Holy Land: Statement of the Patriarchs

October 08, 2023

The Holy Land, a place sacred to countless millions around the world, is currently mired in violence and suffering due to the prolonged political conflict and the lamentable absence of justice and respect for human rights. We, the Patriarchs and Heads of Churches in Jerusalem, have time and again appealed for the importance of respecting

Church roof collapses in Mexico during Sunday Mass killing at least nine, injuring 50

October 02, 2023

The roof of a church has collapsed in northern Mexico during a Sunday mass, killing at least nine people and injuring about 50, authorities said as searchers probed the wreckage late into the night looking for survivors and other victims. Approximately 30 parishioners were believed to have been trapped in the rubble when the roof caved in,

Cardinals send ‘dubia’ to Pope Francis before Synod on Synodality

October 02, 2023

ROME – Five cardinals have submitted a new set of dubia, or doubts, to Pope Francis regarding his Synod of Bishops on synodality which opens on Wednesday, focusing on women’s ordination, the blessing of same-sex unions and the authority of the synod to issue binding teaching. The new dubia follow a similar set of doubts presented to Francis

The problems with the Synod

October 01, 2023

The Synod on Synodality, which starts at the beginning of this month, is something unique in the history of the Church. It is a synod about a process; in fact you could say, it is listening about listening. In a sense, Pope Francis, whose idea this very much is, has achieved his end simply by

Pope Francis confesses to bullying fat kid so badly his father made him apologise

September 29, 2023

ROME – Pope Francis has criticised the practice of so-called “fat shaming” or “body shaming” – and admitted that he once bullied a boy who was overweight. In a lengthy video call with young people from south Asia, Francis confessed to making life miserable for a child because he was fat. Responding to a question

Chesterton – Events: The Napa Institute Annual Summer Conference

September 28, 2023

The Napa Institute Annual Summer Conference, now in its 13th year, has become the leading Catholic summit in the US, an annual wine-country pilgrimage gathering business and spiritual leaders from across the country. Founded by resorts and educational entrepreneur Tim Busch and former Gonzaga University president Father Robert Spitzer SJ, this year’s five-day event in

Identity of teenager who died fighting mental competence ruling in UK court made public

September 27, 2023

A 19-year-old woman from Birmingham with a rare disease who died during a legal fight to circumvent a ruling that she was not competent to make decisions about her care, despite her desire to go abroad for experimental treatment, can now be publicly named as Sudiksha Thirumalesh. In a statement released following the news that

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