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January 13, 2021

As the torch passes to the second Irish Catholic president, how do Joe Biden and JFK compare, asks Damian Collins

The Beat Goes On: CNEWA Approaches 100 Years of Service

January 13, 2021

Led by an English priest, Msgr. Richard Barry-Doyle, one initiative in particular raised awareness, funds and eyebrows throughout the United States. Msgr. Barry-Doyle’s “Call of the East” packed music halls and theaters. Later incorporated in Pennsylvania as The Catholic Near East Welfare Association, the new outfit sought to raise funds to help address the many needs of the endangered Eastern churches and the people they served.

AUSTRAC massively overestimated Vatican transfers to Australia

January 13, 2021

According to Australia's financial watchdog, the error was due to a 'computing code error'

Report finds 9,000 children died in unwed mothers homes between 1922 and 1998

January 13, 2021

As the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation publishes its final report, the Bishop of Meath calls for 'abject apology' from Church to the survivors of the institutions that it ran

Dominican bishops hammer government abortion legislation

January 13, 2021

Catholic bishops urge the Dominican Congress to respect the right to life, as they debate the decriminalisation of abortion

Glasgow priest launches legal challenge against SNP’s ban on public worship

January 13, 2021

Canon Thomas White of St Alphonsus Church, Glasgow, has started a crowdfunding campaign to take Nicola Sturgeon's government to court over its decision to close places of worship

US executes Lisa Montgomery after Supreme Court lifts stay

January 13, 2021

Lawyers and other advocates had long argued mitigating circumstances for Montgomery, including severe mental illness and a lifetime of suffering that included horrendous sexual abuse and torture that began when Montgomery was a small child, and lasted for years, should make Montgomery ineligible for the death penalty.

Nigerian Bishops call on President Buhari to tackle insecurity in the country

January 13, 2021

At the funeral of the Most Revd. Gregory Ochiaga, Emeritus Bishop of Orlu Diocese, who died on 29th December, Archbishop Augustine Akubeze called on the government to heed the calls of religious leaders

Amazing Grace

January 13, 2021

Having known Cardinal Pell since 1967, the author George Weigel introduces his friend’s candid Prison Journal

Russia brokers further step in peace deal between Armenia and Azerbaijan

January 13, 2021

Armenia and Azerbaijan reached an agreement this week to work together for the development of Nagorno-Karabakh -- an ethnically Armenian region -- which has been a major theatre in several conflicts, including the war the countries fought last year. The Armenian Ambassador to the Holy See, Garen Nazarian, spoke with the Catholic Herald late last year to provide the Armenian view of the most recent war with Azerbaijan, which broke out last September.