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October 08, 2019
Bishops urge US Supreme Court not to redefine ‘sex’
October 08, 2019
The bishops of the United States have urged the Supreme Court not to “redefine a fundamental element of humanity” by reinterpreting sex descrimination laws. The bishops’ intervention came as the court heard oral arguments on Tuesday in a trio of cases that could decide whether or not federal workplace nondiscrimination law extend to protect sexual orientation
Priestly celibacy discussed as Amazon synod gets underway
October 08, 2019
Some participants at the Vatican’s Synod of Bishops on the Amazon have responded critically to a proposal that the Church ordain married men – so called viri probati – in response to a shortage of priestly vocations in the Amazon region of South America. A source inside the synod told CNA that Cardinal Robert Sarah,
Polish archbishop compares LGBT movement to communist regime
October 08, 2019
The Archbishop of Krakow has compared the LGBT rights movement in Poland to communism. Archbishop Marek Jędraszewski made the comparison in a pastoral letter to the archdiocese released on September 28, as he announced a new initiative to encourage people to pray for Poland. In the letter, Jędraszewski said that the LGBT rights movement is “the next great
UK company apologizes for pro-life billboard aimed at local MP
October 08, 2019
An advertising company has apologized for displaying a pro-life billboard in the United Kingdom, saying it is removing the ad and will make a donation to a pro-abortion charity. The billboard was erected in Walthamstow, East London, as part of the #StopStella campaign. The campaign is in reference to local Labour MP Stella Creasy, the
In praise of the saturno – and other clerical hats
October 08, 2019
As a boy I was fascinated by the kippah a Jewish friend wore upon his head. I did not understand it. Why did he wear it? I never asked. But I always looked, and pondered how much it set him apart. There was a part of me that coveted this small woven dome he wore
The Vatican tree ceremony: a self-made PR headache
October 08, 2019
So, the first full day of the special synod assembly for the Amazon region is come and gone. Pope Francis addressed the synod fathers yesterday morning, offering them encouragement couched in his signature homespun and warning against careless communication of the doings inside the synod hall. “[A] process like that of a synod can be
For Newman’s canonisation, revisit his profound reflections on faith and reason
October 08, 2019
Confident in their infallible conclusions, Victorian scientists opened an interminable war between science and religion: certainty could only be found through science, religion was no more than whim, inherited prejudice, self-interest. Victorian clergy happily agreed with them. Some urged Luther’s old condemnation of all coherent logical thought in religious matters. “Faith alone” means you are
For Newman, beauty had a serious purpose
October 08, 2019
Fr Ian Ker, the Newman scholar and author of an acclaimed biography of the soon-to-be Saint John Henry, gave a talk recently at Blackfriars in Oxford on Newman as a writer. It was pitched for a general audience i.e. for people like me who am not very familiar with Newman’s writings. Ker made several interesting
The holiness of John Henry Newman
October 08, 2019
The forthcoming canonisation of Blessed John Henry Newman in Rome on October 13th makes one ponder the category of holiness – the word we give to those people, whom the Church describes as “saints”. In his study of Newman in Unearthly Beauty (Gracewing, £25), Fr Guy Nichols refers to the impressions of Newman’s contemporaries; even
The Catholic writer who recalls us to our spiritual roots
October 08, 2019
I wish someone would undertake to write a biography of that fine German writer Gertrud von le Fort as there does not seem to be one for an English-speaking readership. Still, there is some consolation in the way Ignatius Press has been gradually introducing new translations of her short stories and novellas; a few years
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