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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 Ali Hirsi, 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

Cardinal Müller appearing at National Conservatism conference despite political opposition and threats from Antifa

April 16, 2024

The National Conservatism conference in Brussels has had two venues cancel on hosting the event after facing significant opposition from so-called anti-fascist groups and left-wing politicians. After settling on a third venue, the conference began on 16 April, though there are still doubts as to whether the two-day conference will be able to run normally

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

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