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August 24, 2017
Pope Francis says post-Vatican II liturgical reforms are irreversible
August 24, 2017
The Pope invoked his 'magisterial authority' in a major speech to Italian liturgists
Nepal to ban evangelisation and religious conversion
August 24, 2017
Citizens and foreigners face up to five years in prison for trying to convert someone
Up to 15,000 Iraqi Christians returning home this month
August 24, 2017
Around 3,000 families are returning to the Nineveh Plains
The Catholic bohemian who mocked feminists
August 24, 2017
Alice Thomas Ellis was a novelist, controversialist and party hostess, but above all else a Catholic
When the War on Drugs kills
August 24, 2017
In May last year President Rodrigo Duterte came to power in the Philippines, riding high on a wave of popular support, promising to wipe out the country’s drug problem. In a country used to broken political promises and chronic misgovernment, Duterte’s populist agenda seemed irresistible; 14 months on, his popularity endures. The president promised a
The big story of the past seven days
August 24, 2017
✣ Archbishop: I’d go to jail over confessional seal What happened? Archbishop Denis Hart of Melbourne said he would go to jail rather than break the seal of Confession. His remarks to ABC Radio Melbourne came after Australia’s royal commission recommended that priests face criminal penalties if they fail to divulge accounts of abuse heard in
The best of the Catholic blogosphere
August 24, 2017
✣ Highlights from the week online A Eucharistic parish grows at speed The Catholic News Service told the story of a San Francisco parish which has transformed itself. Three years after Fr Joseph Illo was appointed at Star of the Sea, Mass attendance and parish membership have both risen by 10 per cent each year.
Trudeau lobbies Ireland over abortion law
August 24, 2017
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has told his Irish counterpart that abortion in Ireland should be a considered a “human right”. Mr Trudeau and Leo Varadkar, Ireland’s Taoiseach, addressed the subject at a joint press conference during the Irish leader’s three-day visit to Canada. Mr Varadkar, who is seeking to hold a referendum next year
Bishop to open centre for new evangelisation
August 24, 2017
Bishop Philip Egan of Portsmouth will open a centre dedicated to evangelisation next month. The Adoremus Centre on Alderney, a three-mile long Channel Island, will consist of a priest, Fr John Lavers, and at least six Franciscan Sisters. Bishop Egan said he hoped it would grow into a “powerhouse of prayer” in support of the
Terror cell ‘plotted to bomb Sagrada Familia’
August 24, 2017
Islamists who carried out two deadly attacks in Spain last week had collected 120 gas canisters and intended to detonate some of them at the Sagrada Familia, according to Spanish media. The canisters were found in the coastal town of Alcanar as police searched for the driver of a van that rammed into crowds in
Iceland ‘eradicating’ Down’s syndrome babies
August 24, 2017
Pro-lifers have expressed dismay following reports that nearly all babies with Down’s syndrome are being aborted in Iceland. Only one or two people, on average, are born with Down’s syndrome in the country each year, according to a report by America’s CBS News network. Kari Stefansson, the founder of a genetic group named deCODE Genetics,
Resist the new revolutionaries, urges cardinal
August 24, 2017
Modern Western advocates of abortion and population control in Africa are like the French revolutionaries who massacred the people of Vendée, Cardinal Robert Sarah has said. In a homily honouring the Vendée martyrs, published by the magazine Famille Chrétienne, Cardinal Sarah praised the region and its inhabitants for resisting atheistic republicanism during the Revolution, but
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