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Orthodox bishop stabbed at Sydney church in second knife attack in three days
April 16, 2024
An Orthodox Assyrian Bishop was stabbed while giving a sermon that was being broadcast live in the second knife assault to have happened in Australia’s capital in three days. A second man was stabbed and injured during the attack at Christ the Good Shepherd Church in Sydney on the night of 15 April. The suspected attacker, a
Ireland faces biggest Diocesan restructuring in 900 years
April 16, 2024
A reduction in the number of bishops in the West of Ireland is part of the most radical restructuring of Irish Church governance in nine centuries. The key changes made in a 10 April announcement by Argentinian-born Archbishop Luis Montemayorm, Papal Nuncio to Ireland, and which mark the biggest change in diocesan structures since the 12th
Initiative to return traditional Catholic music to Australian schools proves a rousing success
April 16, 2024
Recently, Catholics celebrated the 60th anniversary y of the Second Vatican Council’s Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, Sacrosanctum Concilium. But, many of its intended reforms are yet to be achieved. Sadly, the decades since the council have often been characterised by deeply entrenched and divergent views. An area of particular division is that of sacred
Cardinal Sarah denounces ‘atheistic’ Western bishops who prefer the world to the cross
April 15, 2024
YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – Guinean Cardinal Robert Sarah has accused Western bishops of worldliness and of succumbing to the temptation of “practical atheism” as they lose faith in the teachings of the Catholic Church. The former prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments said that so many bishops desired to be “loved
New York cardinal shelters from Iranian drone attack during trip to Holy Land
April 15, 2024
NEW YORK – Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York said he and those he traveled with to the Holy Land “feel safe and secure” in Bethlehem, after they were forced to take shelter the night before when Iran launched a missile attack against Israel. “This Sunday in Bethlehem all does seem calm and bright, and
Pope to visit four Pacific rim countries in September
April 15, 2024
Pope Francis will visit three countries in Asia and one in Oceania in the first two weeks of September, according to the Vatican . He travels first to Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, where he will land on September 3 and leave September 6. He will then travel to Papua New Guinea, visiting on September
Pope’s popularity rating tumbles in United States
April 15, 2024
NEW YORK – A new report has found that Pope Francis’s favourability rating among American Catholics has fallen from 83 per cent in 2021 to 75 per cent in 2024, with those who view the pontiff unfavourably also saying he represents a change in the direction of the Church. The nation’s ever-growing partisan divide is
Could Archbishop Gänswein be made papal nuncio to Baltic states?
April 14, 2024
ROME – Rumors set in motion this week by a journalist close to Pope Francis, Elisabetta Piqué of Argentina’s La Nacion, suggest the pontiff may be on the verge of naming his erstwhile bête noire, German Archbishop Georg Gänswein, as his apostolic nuncio, meaning ambassador, to an unspecified foreign country. Yesterday, veteran Vatican writer Gian
Escaping the darkness by accepting ‘the beauty of the light’
April 14, 2024
“Their joy was so great that they still could not believe it” (Luke 24:41) In Sunday’s Gospel, the Risen Jesus’s disciples do not believe in him for a strange reason: their joy is too great!  It seems odd, but sometimes we can lack faith for this reason: we think it is all too good to
The cynical politics (and politicians) endorsing assisted dying and abortion
April 14, 2024
This is a bleak time to be pro-life. The holistic vision of human life from conception to natural death as being invested with dignity and worthy of respect is being steadily undermined by legislatures. In Britain and Ireland, there are moves to introduce assisted dying into law. An Irish parliamentary inquiry has recommended legislation to
The astonishing Fourth Gospel: teasing out the narrative of the one we call John
April 14, 2024
I hesitate to call the Fourth Gospel “John’s Gospel”, since there is no reliable sign that John had anything to do with its authorship. It is the gospel of the Beloved Disciple, but who was he? The Beloved Disciple is never given a name, and that is quite deliberate. He (or perhaps she – except
Restoring the Catholic grand-dame of New Orleans
April 13, 2024
In its more than 300 years of existence as a topographically challenged city pummelled by a holy trinity of natural disasters – fire, flood and pestilence – one sacred building less than 200 metres from the Mississippi River has framed the religious, cultural and political life of this oddest and most exotically Catholic of American
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