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August 25, 2023

Portugal is facing the new world once again

August 25, 2023

With its sixth cardinal on the way and a papal visit to Lisbon last month, a new special relationship between Portugal and the Vatican is being forged. William Cash investigates. For this year’s World Youth Day (WYD) at the start of August, Pope Francis became a spiritual magnet for a million and a half youthful

Diary: by Harry Mount

August 25, 2023

My late godmother, the Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava (1941-2020), had a unique combination of talents. I’ve tried to record some of them in a new book, with tributes to her from friends including David Hockney, Van Morrison and Tom Stoppard. Lindy was a painter, yoghurt-maker and the entrepreneurial chatelaine of Clandeboye, one of Northern Ireland’s

Mediterranean mission

August 25, 2023

The Holy Father is nothing if not peripatetic. Three weeks after the papal visit to Mongolia, he faces a very different challenge with a visit to Marseilles – the first pope to do so since Clement VII in rather less happy circumstances in 1533. It is part of his continuing “Mediterranean meetings”, whereby he has

No Room for Christ at the Inn

August 25, 2023

St Paul told the Corinthians: “Whether you eat or drink, or whatsoever else you do, do all to the glory of God.” It’s a sentiment that underlies the moment, usually under a minute or two, when, across the British establishment, in Oxbridge colleges, Inns of Court and some of the more old-fashioned guilds (and outside

Help the youth spread the Word

August 25, 2023

The Holy Spirit sometimes works in mysterious ways, but during World Youth Day in Lisbon the fruits of the Spirit were manifest in cheerfulness, mutual respect, joyful mingling of nationalities and reverence for the Sacraments as 1.5 million young people gathered for a celebration of the Catholic faith. The story of the Church in Europe

Ortega boots Jesuits out of Nicaragua

August 25, 2023

ROME – A week after Nicaragua’s government confiscated a prestigious Jesuit-run university, it has officially expelled the Society of Jesus from the country entirely and ruled that all of the order’s property and assets be seized. Nicaragua’s government declared Pope Francis’s Jesuit order illegal on Wednesday and ordered that all of its property and assets

Leading U.S. Catholics clash over ‘schismatic’ synod agenda

August 25, 2023

NEW YORK – A controversial American Jesuit priest has made a robust defence of the forthcoming Vatican synod in the face of claims by critics that it will produce division and schism within the Catholic Church. Jesuit Fr James Martin (pictured), one of the foremost apologists of the global gay rights agenda in the Church,

Rebel Italian cleric formally dismissed from priesthood

August 25, 2023

ROME – A high-profile Italian priest who championed euthanasia and same-sex marriage has been dismissed from the priesthood at his own request. Fr Luca Favarin, 53, who had been suspended since last December a divinis, made the announcement of his dismissal from the clerical state in an August 24 post on Facebook, saying the Vatican