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New study expresses ‘grave concerns’ on State’s definition of ‘brain death’ compared to Catholic view
April 13, 2024
When does the brain die? While the concept of brain death has been widely accepted by medical professionals since the late-1960s, significant questions about its precise nature still remain. The National Catholic Bioethics Center (NCBC) has released a report, “Integrity in the Determination of Brain Death: Recent Challenges and Next Steps”, to draw attention to
‘Something has gone truly, terribly wrong’: the latest outbreak of anti-Semitism in Britain
April 13, 2024
The atrocities committed by Hamas on 7 October 2023 and the subsequent Israeli invasion of Gaza mark a turning point not just in the fraught relationship between Israel and the Palestinians but between religious communities and ethnic groups in the United Kingdom as well. Previous conflicts between Israel and Gaza have resulted in an increase
ON PILGRIMAGE WITH…Fr David Howell, a priest of the Archdiocese of Southwark who is also studying canon law in Rome
April 13, 2024
Where would you go? To see the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City, after travelling to Latin America via transatlantic ship. It was produced miraculously after Mary appeared to a native Mexican, Saint Juan Diego, in the 16th century. Many native Mexicans converted to the Catholic faith in the wake of the
Italian regulator pulls ‘blasphemous’ crisps advert from the airwaves
April 12, 2024
Italian regulators have pulled a “blasphemous” television advert in which nuns are offered crisps instead of consecrated hosts during a Mass. The advert for Amica Chips provoked a huge backlash within the Catholic nation, with claims that it “debased” and “vilified” Jesus Christ. The Institute of Advertising Self-Discipline, Italy’s advertising standards authority, has now upheld
Murdered Catholic MP Sir David Amess honoured with seafront statue
April 12, 2024
A statue of murdered Catholic politician Sir David Amess has been unveiled his former constituency town of Southend. Sir David, the Conservative MP for Southend West, Essex, was stabbed to death while holding a surgery for constituents in Leigh-on-Sea in October 2021. Ali Harbi Ali, a British Muslim of Somali origin, was in 2022 convicted
Ditch the woke idiocracies and let Europe be Christian, urges Hungarian minister
April 12, 2024
ROME – Hungary’s State Secretary for the Aid of Persecuted Christians and a leading member of the country’s Christian Democratic People’s Party has lauded Pope Francis’s condemnation of so-called “ideological colonisation” and his call for Europe to return to its founding values. Speaking to Crux April 8 as part of a whirlwind trip to Rome, Secretary Tristan
Unprecedented commute of all death sentences to life imprisonment in California’s Santa Clara County 
April 11, 2024
An unprecedented decision by California’s Santa Clara County district attorney to reset the death penalty sentences in the county to life in prison sentences has been touted by the local bishop as “an important step toward respecting the sanctity of all human life”. “As Bishop of San José, I also support and congratulate Santa Clara
Bishop elect of Dunkeld in Scotland dies shortly before ordination service; last week he went to Lourdes to pray for his new diocese
April 11, 2024
The bishop-elect of Dunkeld in Scotland has died two weeks before his ordination service that was due to occur on 27 April. Only last week, Fr Martin had travelled to Lourdes on pilgrimage to pray for his new diocese. In a statement released 10 April, the diocesan administrator for Dunkeld, Canon Kevin Golden, announced the sad news:
France’s clash between church bell ringing and stroppy ‘rural newcomers’ 
April 11, 2024
The French government aims to pass a law that could help protect the ringing of church bells across the country’s rural regions that are the bastion of French Catholicism.  The move follows tensions in rural areas following a rise in noise complaints attributed to residents who have moved to the countryside from big cities “bemoaning
US cardinal says ‘Dignitas Infinita’ clarifies that LGBTQ Catholics are loved but the Church’s moral teachings still apply 
April 11, 2024
ROME – Cardinal Wilton Gregory of Washington, DC, has praised the new Vatican document on human dignity as a “welcome summation” of Church teaching, espeically on issues such as gender theory and transgenderism. Speaking to Crux, Gregory said the document, published 8 April and titled Dignitas Infinita, does a good job at summarising the Church’s moral and
The dangers of policing belief and the State trying to control our thoughts and values
April 11, 2024
Scotland’s new Hate Crime and Public Order Act is part of a trend in the Western world for the State to police our thoughts and values. Designed to eradicate prejudice against groups who have historically suffered discrimination, and motivated by the new focus on gender identity, Scotland’s new law, and those like it, are ostensibly
British archbishop visiting Vietnam to help Vatican rebuild diplomatic ties
April 10, 2024
Liverpool-born Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, the Vatican’s Secretary for Relations with States and International Organisations, is currently visiting Vietnam and staying as a guest of the government until Sunday in a bid to continue improving diplomatic ties between the Vatican and the Southeast Asian country.  Archbishop Gallagher has said little publicly about the purposes of
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