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UK Parliament passes Rwanda refugee bill that is ‘as inhumane as it is absurd’

April 23, 2024

Britain’s Parliament has finally passed the Rwanda bill which will send some asylum seekers to the African country, a move a leading Catholic agency says is “as inhumane as it is absurd”. The controversial bill was passed after months of back-and-forth between the House of Commons and House of Lords. The Jesuit Refugee Service UK

From betrayal to benediction: three cities, two paintings and the one and only Caravaggio

April 23, 2024

The National Gallery in London is celebrating its bicentenary by lending twelve of its most famous paintings to various museums and galleries throughout the United Kingdom. One beneficiary is the Ulster Museum in Belfast, which starting on 10 May will showcase The Supper at Emmaus, a masterpiece by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. At the same

Italy’s abortion row heats up amid concerns about influence of pro-life organisations from US

April 22, 2024

ROME – Conflict is churning both inside Italy and across Europe over a new plan by the Italian government to introduce pro-life consulters to publicly funded family planning clinics that issue the certificates women need to undergo an abortion. Despite the controversy, so far the Italian bishops’ conference, known by its acronym of CEI, as

Praying for vocations and good shepherds

April 22, 2024

Yesterday, the fourth Sunday of Easter, is known as the Good Shepherd Sunday. That is because on this Sunday, in all three-year liturgical cycles’ readings, the Church invites us to meditate on the Gospel of John. It is also known as Vocation Sunday, and dedicated to promoting vocations in the Catholic Church and encouraging individuals

Majority of Scots oppose abortion buffer zones, parliament consultation reveals

April 22, 2024

A Scottish Parliament consultation on MSP Gillian McKay’s buffer zone Bill has shown that 77 per cent of respondents oppose introducing so-called abortion buffer zones to Scotland. Polling from Savanta ComRes shows that less than a third of the population in Scotland support the introduction of nationwide buffer zones around abortion clinics. The consultation was undertaken by the

Catholic Irob minority has lost its home in Ethiopia’s Tigray region

April 22, 2024

A Catholic minority in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region is “in danger of disappearing” after three and a half years of brutal and violent occupation by the Eritrean army, according to a recent article in the Italian press. The tragedy of the Irob community is unfolding against the larger tragedy across the Tigray region caused by

East Timor cardinal praises papal visit to help cement peaceful independence from world’s largest Muslim nation

April 22, 2024

East Timor’s cardinal has said Pope Francis’s upcoming visit to the country, scheduled for later this year, is not only a moment of joy for local Catholics, but also represents an opportunity to spread a message of peace and reconciliation throughout the country after its independence from Indonesia. Speaking to Crux, Cardinal Virgilio do Carmo da

Why Catholics should applaud Ayaan Hiris Ali – even if she is stating what we knew all along

April 22, 2024

Ayaan Hiris Ali, who made headlines last November when she announced she was a Christian – after growing up as a Muslim before turning toward atheism – last week took on the issue of the nuclear family being subverted by malign forces. Her highlighting of this issue included explaining why the nuclear family based on

Where to eat after Mass in Bristol: the Camino-inspired Muiño

April 21, 2024

The Cathedral Church of Ss Peter & Paul on Pembroke Road in Bristol’s fashionable Clifton district is strikingly modern, being best described as Late Brutalist in genre. It was consecrated in 1973 and was the first post-Vatican II cathedral built under the council’s new guidelines. It is also the mother church of the diocese of

Popes take risks to appear in public

April 21, 2024

ROME – Amid the usual cascade of news out of the Vatican in recent days was a curious item, which, among other things, touches upon the ever-vexed matter of papal security. It involves the arrest of a U.S. fugitive captured in St. Peter’s Square, armed with three knives, just before Pope Francis’s regular Wednesday General

Sudan faces famine after a year of war

April 21, 2024

YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – As Sudan marked a grim one-year anniversary of bitter armed conflict last week, which came on top of what was already the world’s largest refugee and displaced persons crisis, the Catholic Church’s major international charitable organization is now warning of massive new challenges on virtually every imaginable humanitarian front. “After having already

‘I am the Good Shepherd’: Unraveling Jesus’s use of metaphorical names

April 21, 2024

“Of all the names in the world given to men, this is the only one by which we can be saved.” (Acts 4:12) In Sunday’s first reading, St Peter extols the miraculous power of the name of Jesus, but in the Gospel, Jesus gives himself a metaphorical name: “I am the Good Shepherd” (John 10:11).

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