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December 24, 2023
December 24, 2023
Once again at Christmas Our Blessed Lady and St Joseph invite us to meet their child: God’s Son, the infant Saviour and Prince of Peace. But, all too sadly, peace in so many parts of our world is fractured. For too many people Christmas is not a season of good will. Among the many suffering
December 24, 2023
Emmanuel Macron found himself in a spot of bother earlier in December when he invited France’s chief rabbi to the Elysee Palace to light the candles that marked the start of the Jewish festival of lights. Cue outrage in some quarters, mainly of the political sort, from men and women who accused the president of
December 24, 2023
Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat and a lot of Catholics are arguing after the release of Fiducia Supplicans. Welcome to the contentious end of 2023! Back in 2018 I was at a Catholic event and ran into Austen Ivereigh, the Catholic journalist, author and biographer of Pope Francis. I explained to him that
December 24, 2023
Bishop John Sherrington shares with Anita Boniface the powerful pro-life message of the Eucharist. In Advent and Christmas, the Church’s liturgical year presents us again with a wonderful opportunity to reflect on the gift of the Incarnation, the gift of the Eucharist in the Mass and the gift of life. During Advent, we prepare with
December 24, 2023
ROME – Amid myriad reactions unleashed by Fiducia Supplicans, a new Vatican document advising on non-liturgical blessings of same-sex couples, Ukraine’s Greek Catholic Church has become the first eastern communion to declare explicitly that the document does not apply outside the Latin Church. “On the basis of canon. 1492 of the CCCC this Declaration concerns purely
December 24, 2023
On the first day of Christmas, My true love sent to me A partridge in a pear tree.  On the second day of Christmas, My true love sent to me Two turtle doves, and A partridge in a pear tree.  On the third day of Christmas, My true love sent to me Three French hens, Two turtle doves, and A partridge in a pear
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