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December 29, 2023
December 29, 2023
“Christmas comes but once a year,” my mother was apt to sing out on St Stephen’s Day, “but when it comes, it brings good cheer!” We children (eight of us by the end) exchanged meaningful glances.  Then Thomas, ever enquiring, spoke up: “Will Father Christmas come back next year?” Judith was more probing: “Where does
December 29, 2023
Police in Nicaragua have arrested two more Catholic priests after they prayed in public for a bishop jailed for life when he refused to go into exile. The arrests of Fr Carlos Aviles and Fr Hector Treminio raise the numbers of priests arrested by the regime of President Daniel Ortega to six in the past
December 29, 2023
India’s most senior cardinal has defended Fiducia Supplicans – the controversial new Vatican text approving non-liturgical blessings for same-sex unions – as a rebellion by bishops against the document spreads into Europe. Cardinal Oswald Gracias of Mumbai (pictured with Pope Francis) said that in Indian culture, asking for and giving blessings is a widely accepted
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