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Diocese was justified in firing gay teacher, rules federal appeals court
May 09, 2024
NEW YORK – In a reversal of a 2021 decision, a federal appeals court has ruled that a Catholic school in the Diocese of Charlotte, North Carolina, was justified in firing a substitute teacher over his same-sex relationship. Lonnie Billard, the teacher, sued Charlotte Catholic High School and the Diocese of Charlotte in 2017 for
Archbishop Wilson leads over 10,000 school children in a rosary
May 09, 2024
Over 90 Catholic schools across South London and Kent took part in a rosary led by Archbishop John Wilson, as part of the Archdiocese of Southwark’s campaign to encourage young people to pray.  Archbishop John led the rosary from Notre Dame Secondary School in Southwark, where he was joined by children from St George’s Cathedral Catholic
Bishop Sherrington ‘alarmed’ by proposed amendments on abortion
May 09, 2024
LEICESTER, United Kingdom – Bishop John Sherrington, who heads the bishops’ conference on life issues, is concerned that proposed amendments in the British Parliament will liberalise the country’s abortion laws. Four amendments have been submitted to the Criminal Justice Bill which relate to the protection of unborn babies and will be debated on May 15.
‘I felt out of place praying at the tomb of a saint’: A pilgrim finds Durham Cathedral inhospitable as it prepares for a pop concert
May 09, 2024
I have always been fascinated with British history. As a child, the monarchs, the Anglo-Saxons, the Vikings, Celts and Romans all intrigued me. I was also fascinated by Christianity. Being raised in a denomination with a comparatively short history, I was keen to learn about great Christian figures beyond my Pentecostal upbringing. So when I
On the Record: Ascension, Pentecost and Trinity Sunday
May 09, 2024
An Ascension Day procession in Bavaria If you are near Oxford, make haste to the Bodleian Library, where you will find on display the autograph of Auf Christi Himmelfahrt allein, BWV 128, a cantata for Ascension by JS Bach. It is one of only four Bach manuscripts in the UK, and amongst the best-preserved in
Feast of Our Lady of Pompeii and anniversary of foundational stone laid at famous shrine
May 08, 2024
Today is the feast of Our Lady of Pompeii, one of the most recent titles bestowed on the Virgin Mary. May 8 also commemorates the anniversary of the laying of the foundational stone in 1876 for a church in Pompeii, dedicated to Our Lady of the Rosary, that would become a famous pilgrimage site. On
Why Trump gets the ‘White Christian’ vote
May 08, 2024
Robert de Niro has been one of the more strident voices warnings about the danger of a Trump win in the American election.  When he played the Jesuit Mendoza in the film The Mission some years ago, he made an enormous impact on me and many others. He came to embody a gritty courageous Catholic
Biden administration’s non-discrimination regulations ‘fundamentally redefine the practice of medicine’, Florida lawsuit claims
May 08, 2024
NEW YORK – A lawsuit filed by the State of Florida and on behalf of the Catholic Medical Association (CMA) claims that new non-discrimination regulations implemented by the Biden administration is unlawful overreach that will “fundamentally redefine the practice of medicine”. On May 6, the federal register officially published changes the Department of Health and
Jesuit Refugee Service report finds ‘toxic culture’ of abuse in UK immigrant detention centres
May 08, 2024
LEICESTER, United Kingdom – Abuse and mistreatment remain endemic throughout immigrant detention centers in the UK, according to a new report by the Jesuit Refugee Service UK (JRS UK). The agency on Wednesday published a new report, After Brook House: Continued Abuses in Immigration Detention, which says patterns of mistreatment detailed by the Independent Inquiry into
CAFOD warns of terrible fallout if Israel’s new Rafah offensive continues
May 07, 2024
Britain’s leading Catholic international aid agency has spoken out after Israel launched a new military offensive on Rafah in the southern part of Gaza on 7 May. The Gaza-based local partner of CAFOD, the aid agency of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, described the current situation in Rafah as a “cut and
Bishops in US election battleground state of Iowa call out state and federal lawmakers over immigration crisis
May 07, 2024
In response to the US immigration crisis the Catholic bishops of Iowa have taken aim at both state and federal lawmakers. The bishops have called on the former to seek alternatives to a new law that allows the state to deport undocumented immigrants back to their home country, while calling on the latter to “do
How Evelyn Waugh’s ‘cantankerous’ Catholicism clashed with America’s literary scene at a dinner party in Florence
May 07, 2024
The conservative Catholic novelist Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) paid three visits to Harold Acton in Italy in the 1950s and 1960s. I should like to focus on a literary dinner party, a “social and culinary failure”, that took place in Florence in April 1950, during the first of Waugh’s three visits. In the spring of that year
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