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May 22, 2020
Bishop laments ‘sinister’ promotion of at-home medical abortions amid pandemic
May 22, 2020
Bishop Mark Davies suggested the country would have to face “searching questions” in the wake of the crisis
Increase in prayer and religious devotion in Italy during pandemic, study shows
May 22, 2020
The uncertainty and restrictive measures in place due to the coronavirus caused an increase in prayers in Italy, a recent study said.
In the field of Reformation fiction, two masterpieces stand out
May 22, 2020
The Mirror and The Light, Hilary Mantel’s fictional take on Thomas Cromwell – now in the running for a third Man Booker Prize – is just the latest attempt to take the events of the English Reformation and turn them into fiction. In this edited extract from his forthcoming book, A People’s Tragedy: Studies in
Persecution to apartheid: A very short history of South African Catholicism
May 22, 2020
The history of Catholics in South Africa dates from the colony’s earliest days. Founded by the Dutch East India Company in 1652, it was intended as a mere market garden to replenish shipping along the routes to the Orient. But the lush habitation, in which almost any plant you like grows more quickly and for
‘People want to see the church beautiful’: A Pugin restoration in London
May 22, 2020
A community in East London is coming together to restore its church to former glory. St Antony of Padua in the Diocese of Brentwood was built in the early 1880s by Irish immigrants (many of them dockworkers) under the stewardship of Pugin & Pugin architects. After a post-Vatican II refurbishment, it bears little resemblance to
How the Church is helping Kenya’s forgotten slums
May 22, 2020
The coronavirus, and the government-imposed lockdowns, pose an especially serious threat in countries where many poor families live in “informal settlements” (slums). One of those countries is Kenya, where the state imposed an 11-hour curfew in mid-March. Now, with many Kenyans threatened by starvation, the country’s Catholic bishops have launched an urgent appeal for humanitarian
Report calls for reform of Australian Church
May 22, 2020
A report has called for Australia’s bishops to give laypeople a greater say in the running of the Church, open up Church finances to the public and put more women in positions of power.
Hebda: Catholics ‘depend on the Eucharist,’ and Masses will resume
May 22, 2020
“We have this responsibility to take care of the spiritual needs of our people,” the archbishop said
Cardinal calls for ecological conversion ahead of Laudato si’ anniversary
May 22, 2020
Cardinal Michael Czerny is urging “ecological conversion” in keeping with Pope Francis’s encyclical letter, Laudato si’
Morning Catholic must-reads: 22/05/2020
May 22, 2020
A group of 100 young Catholics have launched a legal challenge to Belgium's church closure order
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