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‘A daring raid deep inside the monarchy’: Netflix dramatisation of Prince Andrew’s infamous interview

April 18, 2024

Last month Netflix aired its latest production to do with the British royal family; no, not another series of The Crown, but a drama “based on real events, fictionalised for dramatic purposes” – plus ca change, then – of the bombshell Newsnight interview Emily Maitlis famously conducted with Prince Andrew on 16 November 2019, concerning his long friendship

Italian mother dies after refusing cancer treatment to save her unborn child

April 18, 2024

At the funeral this week of Italian mother Azzurra Carnelos, who died last week after refusing cancer treatment in order to save the life of her unborn son, she was hailed for her courageous sacrifice and for her love of life. Speaking at Carnelos’s 17 April funeral, Father Massimo Rocchi, director of the Brandolini Rota

New Catholic Lectionary for British churches arriving this Advent following approval by Vatican

April 18, 2024

A new Lectionary will come into use in parishes in England, Wales and Scotland from Advent 2024. The Vatican’s Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments gave its seal of approval on a new Lectionary proposed by the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales in July of last year. Published by the

United States would ‘grind to a standstill’ without immigrants, says Texas bishop

April 17, 2024

Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso is encouraging the US Congress to create more avenues to legal employment authorisation for those with pending asylum claims, arguing that communities across the United States would “grind to a standstill” without the labour of undocumented immigrants. “Without their contributions, American communities would grind to a standstill,” Seitz said

Half of new priests ordained in US this year will be 31 years old or younger

April 17, 2024

Half of the men scheduled to be ordained as priests in the United States in 2024 are 31 years old or younger, according to the latest research from the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) at Georgetown University. The Secretariat of Clergy, Consecrated Life and Vocations of the United States Conference of Catholic

War has become ‘a way of life’ in Holy Land

April 17, 2024

War in Gaza has become a “way of life,” says a Franciscan priest in the Holy Land. “The Holy Land has been at war for almost seven months,” said Franciscan Father Ibrahim Faltas, Vicar of the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land. “It is a way of life, or rather an obligation to live the

What beer drinking can teach Richard Dawkins and Tom Holland about ‘Cultural Christianity’

April 17, 2024

The news that Richard Dawkins has declared for “cultural Christianity” has excited many Christians. One wonders why. Like other cultural Christians such as historian Tom Holland and activist and erstwhile New Atheist Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the professor is warm in his praise of Christian values. He says that Christianity is the best religion, though he

Belgian court strikes down order shuttering National Conservatism conference for hosting the ‘conservative, religious right’

April 17, 2024

The Belgian justice system has acted promptly to protect the freedoms of speech and assembly by issuing a decisive emergency late-night ruling in favour of the conference on National Conservativism that has been mired in controversy and disruption since it began yesterday in Brussels. The conference, scheduled for 16 – 17 April, will now be able to

Support for assisted suicide losing momentum in Scotland

April 17, 2024

Support for assisted suicide in Scotland has declined significantly, according to recent polls and research. The Journal of Medical Ethics Forum has posted an article by Prof. David Albert Jones, Director of the Anscombe Bioethics Centre, showing that support for assisted suicide in Scotland has lost momentum and could even be waning. Meanwhile, three polls conducted by the pro-assisted-suicide group

Cardinal Müller takes to stage despite police trying to close National Conservatism conference as political crackdown escalates in Brussels

April 16, 2024

Dramatic scenes in Brussels today at the National Conservatism conference offered a harrowing harbinger of what a police state in the heart of Europe might look like. After the conference began, local Brussels police suddenly arrived at the Claridge building hosting the conference, and proceeded to set up a barricades in front of the event

Police escort again needed at Manchester University to protect pro-life speaker from screaming pro-abortion mob

April 16, 2024

A screaming pro-abortion mob forced local police to intervene at the University of Manchester to provide an escort to a pro-life speaker, who also had to take transport to a different location to her accommodation because of concerns about her safety. For the second time this year, on the evening of 11 April police had to be

View from the (journalistic) pew in Rome: Cardinal ‘Tucho’ Fernandez opens up on his doctrinal declarations

April 16, 2024

The Vatican press conference to introduce Dignitas Infinita was that rare thing in the history of Vatican press conferences – it was interesting. Not thanks to the document itself, which was a hodge-podge of things-we-already-knew, but because it was the first press conference given by Cardinal Victor Fernandez, known as Tucho, the new head of the Dicastery

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