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Pope intervenes to end Vatican impasse over proposed reforms to Order of Malta
January 31, 2022
Pope Francis has directly intervened to end an impasse between the Vatican and the Order of Malta over controversial reforms, the Catholic Herald has learned.The Holy Father told the leaders of the Vatican delegation they must include senior knights nominated by the Order in crisis talks and not only those hand-picked by themselves.  The Herald has
Coronavirus restrictions scrapped in churches after nearly two years
January 27, 2022
Restrictions brought in halt the spread of Covid-19 have been scrapped in churches throughout England and Wales after nearly two years. The wearing of masks inside churches is optional rather than compulsory and there will be no social distancing. The use of shared hymn books has resumed, the sign of peace reintroduced and holy water
Lessons that remain forever fresh
January 27, 2022
Simon Caldwell reviews Entering the Twofold Mystery: On Christian Conversion, by Erik Varden
When right becomes duty
January 27, 2022
Simon Caldwell is horrified by how far ‘assisted dying’ has shifted from putting the terminally ill first
‘I’ve never been so sad in my life’: Bishops cancel scores of confirmations amid Vatican crackdown on Old Rite
January 26, 2022
The English bishops have cancelled scores of Old Rite confirmations following the latest wave of restrictions from Rome against traditional Latin liturgies. Preparations for about 20 confirmations in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite were scheduled to take place at the Birmingham Oratory in February and more than 40 were expected to be conferred
Knights and Dames vow to fight Vatican threat to 900-year sovereignty of the Order of Malta
January 26, 2022
Crisis talks in Rome between the Vatican and Order of Malta about controversial reforms of the Order dramatically broke down yesterday. Marwan Sehnaoui, the Order’s Sovereign Council nominated leader and a Lebanese knight, was “disinvited” by Cardinal Silvano Tomasi from the talks and the Italian head of the Order, Riccardo Patterno, was invited in his
Downside monks to leave historic abbey after two centuries in ‘stepping stone’ move to Buckfast
January 17, 2022
Benedictine monks are to move out of historic Downside Abbey as they search for a new home for the community. The last eight monks will lodge at Buckfast Abbey in Devon (pictured) while they attempt to reach a permanent decision about their future. Downside School, an independent Catholic school adjacent to the abbey in Somerset,
Pope demotes Vatican official who championed statement against blessings of same-sex couples
January 11, 2022
Pope Francis has demoted an influential archbishop as he begins a shake-up of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. He has removed Archbishop Giacomo Morandi from his post as secretary of the CDF and appointed him diocesan Bishop of Reggio Emilia-Guastalla, Italy. The archbishop, who will retain his episcopal rank “ad personam”, was
‘Charlie’s Law’ bid to let parents seek care overseas for gravely ill children
January 10, 2022
Parents of gravely ill children could be given a new right to seek treatment in foreign countries under a “Charlie’s Law” amendment to the Health and Social Care Bill. Proposals tabled in the House of Lords seek to make it easier for parents to be part of the life-or-death decisions taken by doctors treating their
Tribunal sides with Catholic nurse harassed by NHS bosses for wearing cross at work
January 06, 2022
An Employment Tribunal has ruled that an NHS Trust harassed a Catholic nurse and directly discriminated against her for wearing a cross necklace at work. The tribunal found that Nigeria-born Mary Onuoha, 61, a theatre practitioner, was victimised by Croydon Health Services NHS Trust after she formally complained of discrimination she suffered for wearing the
Assisted suicide law comes into force in Austria after top court ignores warnings of Catholic bishops
January 03, 2022
A law permitting assisted suicide has come into force in Austria in spite of the Catholic bishops warning the nation that it will help to create an era in which “every handicap or disease is seen as a failure that cannot be tolerated”. From New Year’s Day, the law licences doctors to prescribe lethal drugs
No more Covid ‘impositions’ on churches, Cardinal tells PM amid surge in omicron infections
December 27, 2021
Cardinal Vincent Nichols has urged Boris Johnson not to impose further anti-Covid restrictions on churches in England and Wales. The Archbishop of Westminster insisted that churches were already stringent in taking precautions against the spread of the virus, saying they were “not places where we spread the virus”. The plea from Cardinal Nichols, president of
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