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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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