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December 05, 2023

Shark attack!: The first fatal encounter in North America was recorded by a Jesuit priest

December 05, 2023

The first fatal encounter in North America was recorded by a Jesuit priest, explain Kent Mountford and Richard G Fernicola. The year was 1640, and it was Assumptiontide in the Catholic-founded settlement of St Mary’s City in mid-Atlantic North America. August was hot for people in 17th-century garb, and an Englishman, followed by his companions,

Drinking to the glory of God with ‘Monastic Order’

December 05, 2023

Serenhedd James talks to Brian Scarffe, the founder of Monastic Order, about his project and his vision for its future. Another day; another interview. This time about a company that’s importing monastic wine and beer from Europe to the UK. No doubt the usual trope of bibulous monks, and a hefty side-helping of qui bibit,

Holy Cross priest and Africa expert appointed next president of Notre Dame university

December 05, 2023

NEW YORK – In an era where more and more Catholic universities are turning to lay leadership, the University of Notre Dame will stick with its tradition of appointing a priest-president from the Congregation of the Holy Cross, the religious order to which the university’s founder belonged. Notre Dame graduate and longtime faculty member Father

Explaining the position of Spanish Catholics in November’s protests

December 05, 2023

On July 23rd this year, Spaniards voted in the third inconclusive general election in the past four years, called by the country’s Socialist premier, Pedro Sànchez, after his party’s huge defeat in regional and local elections two months prior – a result widely described as a “right-wing tsunami” for the two main opposition parties, Partido