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Karl Gustel Wärnberg
Laura Perrins
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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
Texas bishops publish new guidelines for use of wine at Mass in prisons
May 15, 2024
NEW YORK – In an effort to assist pastoral ministry staff, educate facility staff, and create better access to Mass for inmates, the Texas bishops have published new guidelines for the use of sacramental wine in state correctional institutions. The guidelines, published May 14 through the Texas Catholic Conference of Bishops, essentially reads as an
A disturbing amendment to the Criminal Justice Bill is a clear threat to the Seal of Confession
May 15, 2024
Parliamentarians can sometimes need watching carefully. The Criminal Justice Bill, where debate is due to start today, is a case in point. We have already pointed out some disturbing amendments proposed in the area of abortion. But there is more than that to worry about. A last-minute government amendment, published in the final few days
US commission condemns UK silent prayer arrest in abortion clinic ‘buffer zones’
May 15, 2024
A United States federal government commission has criticised the arrest of a woman for praying silently outside an abortion clinic in the UK its annual international report.  The commission highlighted the case of Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, a Catholic pro-life campaigner, who was arrested twice for praying silently outside an abortion clinic in Birmingham last year. During
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