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Here’s to Harrison Butker, a winner with the guts to tell the truth
May 18, 2024
Harrison Butker is a winner. Literally, in the sense that on 11 February 2024, the young American football player won his NFL team, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Super Bowl. In doing so he also broke the 30-year-old record for the longest field goal in the competition’s history. But Harrison Butker is a winner in
Fourth priest kidnapped in Nigeria in just five months
May 18, 2024
Extremists have captured another Catholic priest in Nigeria, bringing the number of clerics kidnapped in the country this year to four.The gunmen who took Fr Basil Gbuzuo have not contacted the Church, according to a statement by Onitsha Archdiocese sent to Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN).Fr Prudentius Aroh, chancellor of the
Filipino bishop decries divorce reforms as a blow to family and society
May 18, 2024
As the Philippines moved closer to legalising divorce , a leading Catholic bishop has warned politicians that “divorce weakens the fabric of society.” The House of Representatives of the Philippines this week approved House Bill 9349, which would legalise absolute divorce in the predominantly Catholic Asian country. The Philippines is the world’s only country without
Vatican publishes new norms for vetting private revelations
May 17, 2024
ROME – The Vatican today rolled out a new expedited procedure for vetting alleged Marian apparitions or other spiritual phenomenon, ruling that they will no longer deemed supernatural, but simply that nothing stands in the way of encouraging devotion. In an introductory presentation of the new norms, Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Dicastery
Canadian archbishop fights for right of church hospice to refuse euthanasia
May 17, 2024
No-one ever slides up a slippery slope. They only ever go down. Euthanasia invariably involves a descent that is not so much like skidding to the foot of a steep hill as falling from a cliff. In no country in the world has this been quite as dramatic as in Canada. The nation permitted euthanasia
The genius of old age: Michelangelo’s later works at the British Museum
May 17, 2024
The essential aspect of this exhibition is in the title: Michelangelo, the last decades. How does genius age? Michelangelo lived to a great age for his time, dying just shy of his 89th birthday. This show deals with his last three decades, give or take a few years. He was summoned just before his 60th birthday to
State castration of child rapists denounced by Madagascan bishops
May 17, 2024
Madagascar’s influential Catholic bishops’ conference – usually loyal to the government – has denounced a new law for the castration for paedophiles. The law requires that cases of rape against children between the ages of 10 and 13 are surgically castrated. Those who rape children between the ages of 14 and 17 will be chemically
Interview: Former Catholic Union chairman becomes Lord Mayor of Westminster
May 16, 2024
Councillor Robert Rigby was elected the new Right Worshipful Lord Mayor of Westminster following a vote at Full Council on May 15th. A practicing Catholic and former Catholic Union chairman, the new Lord Mayor is 63, and his wife Emiko will be the first ever Japanese Lady Mayoress. Cllr Rigby, who studied at Ampleforth College,
Controversial Chinese bishop to speak at Vatican conference
May 16, 2024
ROME – Next week a high-profile conference will be held marking the centenary of the Catholic Church’s first ever council in China, drawing a slew of experts and featuring prominent Vatican speakers, including Pope Francis. On May 21, a conference titled “100 years since the Concilium Sinense: Between history and present,” will be held at Rome’s
The profound religiosity of Franz Joseph Haydn
May 16, 2024
One of history’s greatest Catholic composers, Franz Joseph Haydn’s masses, oratorios and sacred instrumental works are so moving, energising and innovative that he transcended the mere category of musician. In 1785 the English newspaper Gazetteer & New Daily Advertiser called Haydn the “Shakespeare of music”, while an early biographer, Giuseppe Carpani, likened Haydn to Catholic
Why are some people so intolerant about children at Mass?
May 16, 2024
I have just stomped in from an otherwise lovely day celebrating our eldest child reaching double figures. Children being rather more sophisticated today than they were in the 1980s – when the local Happy Eater represented the acme of fine dining for a 10-year-old – my son had requested lunch at our provincial branch of
Hundreds gather in Parliament Square to protest against ‘abortion up to birth’ as vote looms
May 15, 2024
Multiple advocacy groups, charities and Christians gathered opposite the Houses of Parliament in London today to protest what could be the most significant change in UK abortion law since its legalisation in 1967. Amendments are to be voted on in Parliament over the course of 15 May, which may “threaten to remove remaining legal protections
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