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February 02, 2019

Twice-excommunicated bishop loses hate speech appeal

February 02, 2019

Richard Williamson has lost an appeal against his 2010 conviction for inciting hatred. His appeal was rejected January 31 by the European Court of Human Rights. The disgraced bishop, who has been excommunicated by the Vatican on two separate occasions, was convicted of incitement to hatred for his comments amounting to Holocaust denial during a

The remarkable story behind Our Lady’s prophecies from Ecuador

February 02, 2019

It was 5 am, January 24, 2018; the cobbled streets of Quito were still dark and deserted when fireworks began to shoot up from a church on la Plaza Grande, right next to the presidential palace. Lenin Moreno, President of the Republic of Ecuador, was awakened by the sound of explosives and sent out security

The tragic college footballer who showed how Catholicism and sport can mix

February 02, 2019

To rebuild the Church after the French Revolution, Abbe Louis Lafosse founded the Institute of Christian Education at Echauffour in Orne, France in November 1817. With patience supplied by the supernatural grace that helps holy priests endure their bishop’s lack of urgency in the face of obvious want, only later did he receive episcopal permission