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Ofsted gives Ampleforth the all-clear
November 14, 2022
Ofsted has given Ampleforth College a clean bill of health two years after the school was banned from accepting new admissions amid concerns over safeguarding standards. A new report from the education watchdog has found that child protection at the North Yorkshire public school – sometimes referred to as the “Catholic Eton” – was now
Suicide rates soar wherever euthanasia or assisted suicide are legalised, reveals study by Anscombe Centre
November 11, 2022
The numbers of people who commit suicide surge in countries which legalise euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide, new research has revealed. The rates of “self-initiated” suicides are uniformly higher in places where euthanasia and assisted suicide (EAS) are now legal than in places where such practices remain prohibited, according to research by the Oxford-based Anscombe Bioethics
Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI to defend himself against claims he covered up priest’s sex abuse.
November 10, 2022
Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI will give evidence in court against a civil claim that he was negligent in his handling of a clerical abuse case in Germany. Benedict, former Archbishop of Munich and Freising, is expected to submit a written testimony in defence of his treatment of Fr Peter Hullerman, a priest who continued to
Catholics loan St Chad’s relic to Anglicans
November 10, 2022
(Photograph of St Chad’s relic courtesy of the Archdiocese of Birmingham) The Catholic Church has presented Anglican Lichfield Cathedral with a relic of St Chad, an Anglo-Saxon monk whose shrine was desecrated in the Protestant Reformation. The relic, which was preserved secretly by Catholic recusants, was transferred from St Chad’s Catholic Cathedral in Birmingham to
Tributes paid to former Archbishop of Glasgow Mario Conti, dead at 88
November 09, 2022
(Photograph by Marcin Mazur) Catholics in Scotland are mourning the death of Emeritus Archbishop Mario Conti of Glasgow who has died after a short illness. Archbishop Conti, 88, was admitted to the city’s Queen Elizabeth University Hospital where he “died peacefully” on November 8. He had served as a priest for 64 years and as
French cardinal admits sexual abuse of teenage girl in the 1980s
November 07, 2022
A retired French cardinal has offered to hand himself into the police after he admitted to abusing a 14-year-old girl nearly four decades ago. Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard, who stepped down as Archbishop of Bordeaux in 2019, issued a statement confessing his guilt and expressing regret for the harm he had done to the victim. He
Pope Francis defends appointment of pro-abortion woman to Pontifical Academy for Life
November 07, 2022
Pope Francis has defended the appointment of an atheist supporter of abortion to the Pontifical Academy for Life. During an in-flight press conference on the return to Rome from Bahrain, the Holy Father said Prof Mariana Mazzucato would bring “a little more humanity” to the workings of an institution founded in 1994 to engage in
Pope urges Muslim world to ditch the death penalty during historic trip to Bahrain
November 04, 2022
Pope Francis has spoken out against the death penalty in the historic first papal visit to the Kingdom of Bahrain. The Holy Father included a denunciation of capital punishment as part of a general defence of the right to life during a speech to King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, civic dignitaries and diplomatic corps
Lord Patten accuses Vatican of secrecy and ‘self-delusion’ over China
November 02, 2022
The last British governor of Hong Kong has severely criticised Vatican policy over China, accusing Rome of unwarranted secrecy and “self-delusion” in its dealings with the Communist superpower. Lord Patten of Barnes also hit out at what he said was the “incredibly lily-livered” treatment of Cardinal Joseph Zen, the former Bishop of Hong Kong who
Crackdown on Church in Nicaragua intensifies
November 01, 2022
Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega has stepped up his persecution of the Catholic Church by arresting a 64-year-old chronically-ill priest and imprisoning him practically naked. Police kicked in the doors of a presbytery of a church in Managua, the capital of the central American country, and dragged out Fr Enrique Martínez Gamboa. As they bundled the
Bishop of Shrewsbury creates Eucharistic shrine for prayer for priests and vocations
October 24, 2022
The Bishop of Shrewsbury has inaugurated an historic Stockport church as a Eucharistic shrine of perpetual adoration in a major initiative of prayer for priestly vocations. The Rt Rev. Mark Davies has dedicated St Joseph’s Church in the town centre of Stockport as “a place of continuous Eucharistic adoration with a special mission to intercede
MPs vote for ‘buffer zones’ to stop prayer and pro-life counselling near abortion clinics
October 19, 2022
MPs have voted overwhelmingly to impose “buffer” zones to prohibit prayers or pro-life counselling near all abortion clinics. They voted by 297 votes to 110 in support of an amendment to the Public Order Bill to introduce 150-metre exclusion zones around abortion clinics nationwide, with infringements punishable by six months in prison. The measure would
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