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April 05, 2023

Me, my girls and God’s plan: Vanessa Neumann on adoption and finding her children in Colombia

April 05, 2023

‘Adoption is the purest expression of love,” said our driver, as he whisked me and the two girls of whom I had taken conditional custody from Bogotá’s elite Club Nogal to the offices of ICBF, Colombia’s family welfare agency. As a consequence of Colombia’s civil war roiling officially since 1964 (but unofficially since 1946), the

John Paul II’s handling of abuse claims was the opposite to what his attackers want us to think

April 05, 2023

The day after thousands of faithful Catholics gathered around Poland to defend the good name of Saint John Paul II, Polish journalist Tomasz Rowiński explains how those intent on discrediting the former pope manipulate the facts to suit their purposes The attack on John Paul II carried out in Poland in recent weeks by two

Judas Iscariot: patron exemplar of the politicisation of spirituality

April 05, 2023

Judas Iscariot, failed apostle, is no saint. But if he isn’t a patron saint, perhaps he may be patron exemplar, not only of apostasy, but of the politicisation of spirituality. He may be a patron exemplar of all those who baulk at following Jesus down the path of spiritual change, and prefer the political route.

What does Trump’s arrest mean for the next US presidential race?

April 05, 2023

(New York) Next year’s U.S. presidential election has taken a dramatic turn with the arrest in New York City of former president Donald Trump on 34 counts of falsely submitting business accounts. Trump is the first president, or former president, to be charged with a criminal offence in the Republic’s nearly 250-year history. The significance