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CAFOD warns of terrible fallout if Israel’s new Rafah offensive continues
May 07, 2024
Britain’s leading Catholic international aid agency has spoken out after Israel launched a new military offensive on Rafah in the southern part of Gaza on 7 May. The local partner of CAFOD, the aid agency of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, described the current situation in Rafah as a “cut and paste”
Bishops in US election battleground state of Iowa call out state and federal lawmakers over immigration crisis
May 07, 2024
In response to the US immigration crisis the Catholic bishops of Iowa have taken aim at both state and federal lawmakers. The bishops have called on the former to seek alternatives to a new law that allows the state to deport undocumented immigrants back to their home country, while calling on the latter to “do
How Evelyn Waugh’s ‘cantankerous’ Catholicism clashed with America’s literary scene at a dinner party in Florence
May 07, 2024
The conservative Catholic novelist Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) paid three visits to Harold Acton in Italy in the 1950s and 1960s. I should like to focus on a literary dinner party, a “social and culinary failure”, that took place in Florence in April 1950, during the first of Waugh’s three visits. In the spring of that year
Some questions are anathema to human nature and should not be asked
May 07, 2024
Faith in human life’s inherent value is waning around the world. For now, though, it at least persists on Chesterfield railway station’s second platform, where various iterations of a huge advertisement in favour of life have hung there for as long as I have been catching the train south to London. The billboard pleads with
March for Life addresses ‘soul of medicine’ being lost in Ireland amid ‘soaring’ abortion rates
May 07, 2024
Energetic crowds turned out in the Irish capital Dublin on 6 May for the annual March for Life in defence of the unborn, along with powerful messages from those speaking at the event. Eilís Mulroy of Pro-Life Campaign, a non-denominational organisation that seeks to protect and defend the right to life of every human being
‘I have called you by name’: the importance of Christian names in a world of gender ideology
May 07, 2024
Names matter. Family names matter because they tell a rich history and point to the deep bonds between parents and children. But first names point to an even deeper truth.   As German Catholic philosopher Josef Pieper argued in his essay What is My Real Name? that explores the concept of identity and the relationship
Letters to the Editor: Ideologies increasing exponentially and risk replacing God with individualism
May 06, 2024
False idols Sir – When I was young, my widowed mother would gather her children together for prayers at bedtime. She always included this: “Gentle Jesus meek and mild, look upon a little child; pity my simplicity, make me good to come to Thee.” Simplicity is a beautiful, childlike quality when it is present both
US bishops criticise new federal regulations for advancing ‘ideological view of sex’
May 06, 2024
NEW YORK – While the Biden administration’s recent healthcare-based discrimination regulations don’t include an abortion mandate as the US bishops had feared, they’ve criticised how the regulations advance an “ideological view of sex”. The Department of Health and Human Services on 26 April published a final rule on non-discrimination provisions – known as Section 1557
Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati closer to canonisation, reports cardinal
May 06, 2024
Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati could be declared a saint during the Catholic Church’s 2025 Jubilee Year, according to the head of the Vatican’s office for saints’ causes. Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, the prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, announced on 26 April during Catholic Action’s national assembly that Frassati’s canonisation is “on the
Cradle Catholics forget how easy they have it compared to us Anglican converts
May 06, 2024
The appointment of Fr David Waller as the first Bishop Ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham represents not only a major new chapter in the life of the Ordinariate, but a rare landmark moment for the Church throughout the Anglosphere: the elevation of a former Anglican clergyman to the episcopate. Well
Security checks again find batch of weapons before papal event
May 06, 2024
ROME – Less than a month after a man on New York’s Most Wanted List was arrested in St. Peter’s Square with three knives ahead of a papal audience, a parish priest from the Czech Republic was detained on Sunday before the pontiff’s Angelus address after being found to have an air gun, two knives,
We should not waste our time on the fleeting love of the world
May 06, 2024
God has blessed humanity with an unparalleled gift: His saving power, His love. He expressed love first by creating the world and then by creating us in His image so we may love one another. But God’s love didn’t stop there. He gave us His Son, Jesus Christ, who died for our sins. Through Jesus,
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