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November 22, 2019

The new ideology of gender has tragic effects in hundreds of families

November 22, 2019

It seems unthinkable to us today, but for centuries parents allowed their young sons to be sexually mutilated before puberty if they seemed to have great promise as singers. That’s because there was enormous social reward for the castrati. Mutilating an eight- or nine-year-old boy was also a kind of hormonal therapy which had a range of

Pope calls Catholics in Thailand to follow in footsteps of early missionaries

November 22, 2019

Thailand’s first Christian missionaries set out feeling the absence of the Thai people from their lives and wanted to share everything they knew about God’s love, Pope Francis told the country’s Catholics during Mass on Thursday. The missionaries ended up learning more fully the plan of God, and found the Thai people to be their

Morning Catholic must-reads: 22/11/19

November 22, 2019

The Pope has urged priests and religious in Thailand to “continue inculturating the Gospel”. Vatican Bishop Gustavo Zanchetta has criticised an Argentine prosecutor’s appeal for his arrest (full Italian text). Caritas has expressed dismay after its former representative in the Central African Republic was exposed as an abuser. Three men have reportedly broken into the