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January 04, 2024

‘Deteriorating situation’: Persecution of Catholic Church in Nicaragua

January 04, 2024

NEW YORK – Archbishop Thomas Wenski of Miami has said Nicaragua’s dictatorship has gone “off the rails” with the latest round of arrests of Catholic leaders in Nicaragua and the continued imprisonment of Bishop Rolando Álvarez of Matagalpa. “It’s a deteriorating situation where the government is persecuting the church, and it’s hard to see what

Benedict Rogers: My journey into the Church and the plight of Christians in China

January 04, 2024

Heart, mind and soul. Ten years ago, I was received into the Catholic Church by Myanmar’s first-ever cardinal, Charles Bo, in St Mary’s Cathedral, Yangon, with Lord Alton of Liverpool as my sponsor and St Charles Borromeo as my patron saint. It is perhaps no coincidence that I write this just after launching the first

Strange bedfellows: Unlikely figures who rallied around the Traditional Latin Mass in the 60s and 70s

January 04, 2024

When the post-Vatican II liturgical reform was getting underway in 1966, and again when the reformed Mass had been unveiled in 1971, petitions signed by intellectuals and cultural figures – poets, writers, artists, musicians – called for the preservation of the older liturgy, alongside the new. These voices were heard by Pope Paul VI, who

‘On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love sent to me’…The Star of Bethlehem and the Infant Christ

January 04, 2024

Today, astrology is big business. In 2021, the global astrology market size was valued at $12.8 billion, and it is projected to grow to $22.8 billion by 2031. Yet despite its popularity, I don’t expect governments to start depicting astrological events on their coins and banknotes anytime soon. But around the time of Jesus’s birth,

Vatican issues ‘clarification’ on same-sex blessings amid Fiducia Supplicans backlash

January 04, 2024

ROME – Less than a month after issuing an instruction outlining the reasoning and method for giving non-liturgical blessings to same-sex couples and those in irregular unions, the Vatican has published a clarification amid a flurry of backlash and confusion. In a 4 January press release, the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith

John Studzinski receives major Catholic award in New York

January 04, 2024

Investment banker and philanthropist John Studzinski received the Faith & Culture Award from the Catholic New East Welfare Association (CNEWA) at its annual Healing & Hope Gala Dinner. Hosted at a private club in New York City on 5 December, the dinner saw Studzinski presented the award in recognition of his “commitment to promoting the

Texas bishops ‘celebrate’ court ruling blocking US government’s requirement for abortions if ‘stabilising treatment necessary’

January 04, 2024

NEW YORK – After a federal appeals court ruled 2 January that emergency room doctors in Texas are not required to perform abortions, effectively blocking regulatory guidance previously issued by the federal government, the state’s Catholic bishops said they welcome the ruling. “We celebrate the decision by the US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals,” the

Why would women want to be Catholic priests when they can be Saints instead

January 04, 2024

The leaders of the German Synodal Way decided to make waves in 2023 by leaving Biblical theology and anthropology at the door and endorsing whatever they thought secular society wanted them to endorse. This included female ordination. There are some very compelling reasons why we do not need women priests in the Catholic Church, and