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July 02, 2020
College cemetery reconsecrated after vandalism attack
July 02, 2020
A vandal defaced gravestones and a central cross with swastikas at the Dominican Cemetery at Providence College
Number of women freezing eggs or embryos soars, new data suggests
July 02, 2020
The number of women in the UK freezing their eggs or embryos has risen by 523 per cent
Pope Francis appoints apostolic visitor for Ethiopian Catholics in US and Canada
July 02, 2020
The Pope named Fr Tesfaye Woldemariam Fesuh as apostolic visitor of Ge’ez Rite Catholics in the two countries
The internet has taken away the joy of boredom
July 02, 2020
Bored, bored, bored … That’s been my coronavirus experience. Luckily, I’ve avoided the plague. But I’ve been thrown on my own inner resources – and found them woefully inadequate. I’ve tiled the tiny floor of my boiler cupboard – badly. I’ve framed two pictures – badly – and hung them in my flat. I’ve read
A novel about dashed hopes and delusions of grandeur
July 02, 2020
The Cactus League By Emily Nemens Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 288pp, £20.99/$27 Many readers will be drawn to Emily Nemens’s first novel because of her day job as editor of the Paris Review, America’s premier literary journal. The product of Louisiana State University’s creative writing programme and a slew of writers’ retreats, the novel is
Pope Francis offers condolences to Benedict XVI following his brother’s death
July 02, 2020
The Pope expressed his “heartfelt sympathy” after the death of Mgr Georg Ratzinger on July 1 at the age of 96
Bishop suspends priest who called Black Lives Matter activists ‘maggots’
July 02, 2020
A bishop in the United States suspended a Catholic priest from public ministry on Wednesday for comparing Black Lives Matter activists to 'maggots and parasites'
Florida bishops hail new law on parental consent before minor has abortion
July 02, 2020
Pro-life advocates in Florida have applauded Governor Ron DeSantis after he signed a bill requiring parental consent before a minor has an abortion
Catholic bishop: bill changes would leave UK with ‘most extreme abortion legislation in Europe’
July 02, 2020
An English bishop has urged Catholics to resist a new push to strip away protections for unborn children that would “leave the UK with the most extreme abortion legislation in Europe.”
As Congo turns 60, cardinal says the country has failed
July 02, 2020
The "great dreams" of the people had been shuttered by successive regimes, Cardinal Ambongo said
‘Soft despotism’ of anti-Catholicism on the rise, USCCB religious liberty chair warns
July 02, 2020
“New Jacobins” are driving Catholics from the public square for their beliefs, Archbishop Wenski said
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