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January 11, 2024

What are we to make of the exotic and sensually esoteric theology of Cardinal Fernández?

January 11, 2024

The exotic contents of Mystical Passion: spirituality and sensuality written 25 years ago by now-Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández have been well covered in the Catholic press by now. Responses have ranged from a mixture of horror at what appears to be an exercise in theological pornography at one end, to at the other, a sympathetic reminder that sex and

Swathes of women are involuntarily single and childless: Covid lockdowns and the ticking biological clock

January 11, 2024

‘I can’t believe you’re about to have your third baby and I haven’t even had my first,” said an old girlfriend wistfully over supper the other night. This was not the first time I’d noticed this, although no one really talks about it, that women, when they enter their mid-to-late 30s, suddenly become very starkly

French Bishops’ Conference backs Fiducia Supplicans and its ‘generosity’

January 11, 2024

ROME – Days after nine French prelates announced they would not authorise to blessings to same-sex couples as requested by the recent Vatican declaration Fiducia Supplicans, the Permanent Council of the French Bishops’ Conference has said instead that such blessings should be given as a sign of “unconditional and merciful welcome”. In a statement dated 10

US criticised for not addressing mounting ‘genocide’ against Christians during bloody ‘Islamisation’ of Nigeria

January 11, 2024

YAOUNDÈ, Cameroon – With Nigerians sounding alarms over what some describe as a mounting “genocide” against Christians in Africa’s most populous nation, observers are also expressing disappointment that the U.S. State Department has failed to designate Nigeria a country of special concern for religious freedom violations. Over the Christmas holidays, reports from Nigeria suggest that

Peeling vegetables in Ukraine under the auspices of Just War Theory: a young Catholic volunteer reflects

January 11, 2024

Towards the end of last year, I made the decision to travel to Ukraine to spend over a week in the city of Lviv to help with the Ukrainian war effort. Inspired by the Catholic Just War doctrine, I felt compelled to actively help Ukraine rather than simply donating from back home in the UK.

Pope Benedict XVI’s top aide speaks candidly about the historic resignation

January 11, 2024

ROME – Pope Benedict XVI’s long-time private secretary, German Archbishop Georg Gänswein, spent the Feast of the Epiphany at a small parish in northern Italy, telling parishioners that Benedict was a man of prayer and debunking conspiracies behind his historic resignation. Speaking to churchgoers at Sacred Heart Parish in Carnovali, Bergamo, on the 6 January