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March 10, 2022

VLADIMIR PUTIN, KYRILL AND THE VATICAN There are many who see in Patriarch Kyrill’s reluctance to condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine, evidence of Caesaropapism. Certainly, it is likely that Patriarch Kyrill sees Putin’s “special military operation” as regrettable, but necessary in order to restore the divinely ordained unity of the Russian people – a

Government investigates cancellation of gay teen fiction author’s visit to Catholic schools

March 10, 2022

The Archdiocese of Southwark is facing an investigation by the Government after cancelling a visit by a gay children’s author to two Catholic schools. Simon James Green, whose teenage fiction contains highly-sexualised content and sexual language, was invited to The John Fisher School in Purley, south London, and a Catholic primary in Gravesend, Kent. But

Redemptorist relief: how a religious order is caring for refugees in Ukraine

March 10, 2022

In an unnamed town in war-scarred north-eastern Ukraine, an enormous icon of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour watches over two dozen or so tired, weary people as they try to rest on mattresses laid out on the floor of the room in which they continue to shelter from the ongoing bombardment. A few rugs on

Pope sacks bishop who claimed it was ‘legitimate’ for Catholics to question safety of Covid vaccines

March 10, 2022

A Catholic bishop in Puerto Rico described his removal from office by Pope Francis on Wednesday as “totally unjust.” Bishop Daniel Fernández Torres, who has led the Diocese of Arecibo since 2010, said he had been asked to resign because he “had not been obedient to the pope nor had I been in sufficient communion