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Simon Caldwell

June 11, 2022
Speculation is swirling throughout Rome and beyond that Pope Francis is planning to resign at some point in the near future. The principle reason for this is the Pope’s ailing health. The Holy Father is now seen in public for the most part in a wheelchair. The official reason for his immobility is his need
June 07, 2022
The family of the “skateboard hero” of the June 2017 London Bridge terrorist attacks have launched a campaign for him to be recognised as a saint. Ignacio Echeverría, 39, was one of eight victims of three Islamist terrorists who drove a van into pedestrians on London Bridge before they attacked people randomly with knives and
June 05, 2022
Queen Elizabeth II has shown to the world how a Christian vocation can be lived fully in public life, the Bishop of Shrewsbury has said. In a homily preached on Pentecost Sunday, the Rt Rev. Mark Davies noted that the Queen embraced her calling to reign as Monarch with “an unequivocal sense of Christian vocation”
May 27, 2022
I knew Rome would be beautiful this time of the year, but I had no idea it would be so hot or so humid. A heatwave has bumped up temperatures to 30 degrees or more, making it more like July and August. So I made for the parks and for the banks of the Tiber,
May 10, 2022
The relics of St Bernadette are to tour Britain from September 3-30, Cardinal Vincent Nichols has announced. The dates and venues of the tour have been agreed – and besides cathedrals and major churches will include a visit to Wormwood Scrubs prison in west London, St Mary’s University in Twickenham, London, and several hospices. There
May 09, 2022
The obligation for Catholics to attend Mass on Sunday and Holy Days is to be re-introduced in England and Wales from Pentecost. The decision by the English and Welsh bishops means that, from June 5, the faithful will be obliged to go to Sunday Mass each week for the first time in more than two
May 07, 2022
SINCE Simon James Green, the homosexual author of ‘teen fiction’, was prevented from promoting his latest book at a Catholic secondary school, he has been depicted as a victim, a tragic and misunderstood defender of the rights of LGBT+ children. Green likes to present himself in this way. It is how he sees himself. In a recent
May 07, 2022
Secularist ideologies are plunging new generations of people into “an abject state of ignorance” not seen for centuries, the Bishop of Shrewsbury has said. Womanhood in particular is being increasingly coarsened, said Bishop Mark Davies, and there is a growing “dislocation in the life of home and family”. He encouraged the Catholic Church to commit
April 29, 2022
The American mother miraculously healed of a potentially fatal haemorrhage by the intercession of Cardinal St John Henry Newman has spoken out against attacks on the consciences of children in Western societies. Melissa Villalobos, a lawyer and mother-of-seven from Chicago, that Western culture is now so coarse that it was more important than ever to
April 29, 2022
After winning permision to take their critically ill five-year-old daughter Tafida Raqeeb to a hospital abroad, her parents campaign to set up a specialist hospital in Britain
April 27, 2022
The Pope has appointed Bishop Mark O’Toole as Archbishop-elect of Cardiff and Bishop-elect of Menevia. A Londoner, Bishop O’Toole has been Bishop of Plymouth since his appointment in 2013. He was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Westminster in 1990 and served as private secretary to Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor between 2002 and 2008. He
April 25, 2022
The Pope will intervene to end the possibility of a schism opening up in the Church over a German synod which departs from Catholic teaching, an Australian cardinal has predicted. Cardinal George Pell said he was certain that Pope Francis will exercise the Petrine ministry to ensure unity of teaching within the Catholic Church following
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