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September 21, 2023

Pakistan Christians reeling after violence

September 21, 2023

Catholic bishops in Pakistan call for justice after angry Muslim mob carries out ʻworst attack on Christians in nationʼs historyʼ. Christians in Pakistan are reeling from mob violence described by the country’s Catholic bishops as the worst attack against them in the nation’s history. Urgent action is needed to demonstrate that members of this vulnerable

Budapest diary: Painful lessons from a city of beauty

September 21, 2023

It was very late when I arrived in Budapest, but a consolation to be in a hotel close to the Danube. To me, there is something sacred about rivers. I dropped my bags in my room and went there straight away to gaze upon the same flow that was once viewed by Attila the Hun,

A Christian country?: The CofE shows us why not to cave to the spirit of the age

September 21, 2023

Recently The Times newspaper reported on the findings of its survey of 1,200 clerics of the Church of England. Among the dispiriting results was that only a quarter who responded thought that Britain was still a Christian country, with two-thirds considering that it was only Christian historically. But perhaps the most troubling aspect of the poll

Over 1,000 people sign petition to ‘scrap the cap’ on faith-based admissions to new free schools

September 21, 2023

Over 1,000 people have signed the Catholic Union’s open letter to the Education Secretary, Gillian Keegan, calling on her to lift the cap on faith-based admissions to new free schools. The Catholic Union launched the “scrap the cap” campaign earlier in the summer. Catholic schools in the UK are funded by the government and regulated

Papal envoy in leopard print vestment causes social media frenzy

September 21, 2023

ROME – A veteran Vatican diplomat recently became a brief cause célèbre in Italy after images of him celebrating Mass in a leopard print chasuble went viral on social media, generating an avalanche of largely derisive commentary and forcing the local cathedral to issue a clarification. Archbishop Nicola Girasoli, 66, currently the papal ambassador to

Germany: Catholic clergy defy Church and affirm same-sex couples at Cologne Cathedral

September 21, 2023

Several clerics from the Archdiocese of Cologne have joined representatives of Protestant denominations in a ceremony to affirm same-sex couples on the steps of its renowned cathedral. As lay Catholics and other locals gathered to cheer the ceremony – waving LGBT, “anti-fascist”, and transsexual flags – a group of traditional Catholics prayed the rosary nearby,

The challenges of evangelisation

September 21, 2023

Her face was etched with that deep grief that you see masking the expression of a widow in the first few days of shock after the death of her husband. She had sat rather uncomfortably through Mass. She was Church of England, she said, but her late husband was a non-observant Catholic. His body was