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January 09, 2024
January 09, 2024
Cardinal Robert Sarah has given his first in-depth and public interview on Fiducia Supplicans, the controversial new document on same-sex blessings from the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) released in December.  The former Prefect for the Congregation for Divine Worship, the Vatican’s Liturgical Office now headed by former Bishop of Leeds Cardinal
January 09, 2024
Filled as they are with stories about vengeful Israelites in conflict with their neighbours, it takes little effort these days to find sensitive material in Handel’s great Old Testament-based oratorios. Jephtha, which has vengeful Israelites from start to finish, is a case in point. And although preparations for the recent Covent Garden staging will have
January 09, 2024
Simon Caldwell meets the young priest who runs a Catholic radio station from a priory in north London. Fr Toby Lees, a young Dominican priest of great energy and charisma, levels his gaze as he summarises the value of Radio Maria England, the youngest daughter of an international network of Catholic radio stations which each
January 09, 2024
ROME – A book written 25 years ago by now-Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández giving an in-depth spiritual reflection on human sexuality and the meaning of orgasms has resurfaced amid disputes over the Argentine prelate’s recent approval of non-liturgical blessing of same-sex couples.  Titled La pasión mística: espiritualidad y sensualidad, meaning, “Mystical passion: spirituality and sensuality”, the
January 09, 2024
An archbishop viewed as a major ally of Pope Francis has called for the end to the discipline of priestly celibacy in the Catholic Church. Maltese Archbishop Charles Scicluna said the time was ripe “to discuss the issue seriously” – and to give priests the choice to marry. “This is probably the first time I’m
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