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August 11, 2023

What do young people actually want? The lessons of Lisbon and the Tupperware Tabernacle

August 11, 2023

World Youth Day was an astonishing and wonderful event. It gathered something like 1.5 million young Catholics together in Lisbon. If the world’s media failed to respond with the interest and astonishment that it deserved then Catholics have celebrated it with respect and appreciation, both to those who came and for those who organized it.

FBI spied on traditionalist U.S. Catholics from coast to coast, new evidence reveals

August 11, 2023

The FBI mounted spying operations on traditionalist Catholic churchgoers across the whole of the United States, according to new evidence obtained by politicians. The Federal Bureau of Investigation was in February accused of secretly gathering evidence which might link Catholics in the Richmond area of Virginia to “the far right nationalist movement”. At least one

Sicilian bishop dedicates parish to ‘martyrs’ of the Mafia

August 11, 2023

ROME – In the heart of Italy’s mob country, a new Catholic parish is being dedicated to the premier patron saints of the anti-Mafia effort, one a Catholic priest and the other a lay judge, both murdered in the 1990s. Bishop Giuseppe Marciante of Cefalù, located on the island of Sicily near Palermo, announced the

U.S. bishops’ fury at ‘pro-life’ pregnancy rights Act hijacked to push abortion

August 11, 2023

NEW YORK – Proposed regulations from the Biden administration to protect pregnant women in the workplace have drawn the ire of the U.S. bishops for pushing abortion. They complain that the “pro-worker, pro-family and pro-life” Pregnant Workers Fairness Act has been hijacked to drive a pro-abortion agenda. Passed by the Senate late last year and