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October 02, 2023

Pope responds to cardinals’ dubia, says ‘maybe’ to blessing some same-sex unions, ‘no’ on women priests

October 02, 2023

ROME – Responding to a group of five cardinals who posed critical questions about his upcoming Synod of Bishops on synodality, Pope Francis largely upheld the Church’s ban on women priests, while suggesting the doctrine can still be studied, but signaled openness to giving blessings to same-sex couples provided that doing so is not confused

There is nothing new about the pope’s concern for the environment

October 02, 2023

With a follow-up to ‘Laudato Si’, the pope’s environmental encyclical, due to be published 4 October, Suzanne Topham wonders what else the Catholic Church can possibly say on the subject I met a Catholic a little while ago who told me about his ecological conversion. A few years previously, he had read Laudato Si and been plagued

Normal for Norfolk?: Churches, bike rides, Communion, and skateboards

October 02, 2023

Struggling to settle, a skateboarding sister and First Communions. Why are you here? The question I am asked so frequently is posed not with hostility but with curiosity, astonishment, even. No one but no one, I have learned, moves to Norfolk on a romantic whim about wildness and freedom, a reaction to being locked down

Church roof collapses in Mexico during Sunday Mass killing at least nine, injuring 50

October 02, 2023

The roof of a church has collapsed in northern Mexico during a Sunday mass, killing at least nine people and injuring about 50, authorities said as searchers probed the wreckage late into the night looking for survivors and other victims. Approximately 30 parishioners were believed to have been trapped in the rubble when the roof caved in,

Cardinals send ‘dubia’ to Pope Francis before Synod on Synodality

October 02, 2023

ROME – Five cardinals have submitted a new set of dubia, or doubts, to Pope Francis regarding his Synod of Bishops on synodality which opens on Wednesday, focusing on women’s ordination, the blessing of same-sex unions and the authority of the synod to issue binding teaching. The new dubia follow a similar set of doubts presented to Francis