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January 15, 2024

How the stolen Parish Missal was returned to the people of Groix

January 15, 2024

Last summer, in a packed church on a small island in Brittany, the local mayor presented an Englishman with the Medal of Groix, its name taken from the aforementioned island. The recipient was Christopher Edwards, an antiquarian bookseller who also happens to be my father. He had done what various nationalities have urged the British

Prayers answered: Nicaraguan bishop imprisoned for life gains freedom, though exiled to Vatican

January 15, 2024

Nicaragua has released a bishop jailed for 26 years after he stood up to the regime of President Daniel Ortega. Bishop Rolando Álvarez of Matagalpa was sent into exile at the Vatican along with Bishop Isidoro del Carmen Mora Ortega of Siuna and 15 priests and two seminarians. The ejection of Bishop Álvarez comes almost

Cameroon bishops denounce Boko Haram atrocities as terrorist group wages war to create African ‘Islamic caliphate’

January 15, 2024

YAOUNDÈ – Catholic bishops in the west African nation of Cameroon, which has been gripped by civil conflict for the past seven years, have denounced rising poverty in the country as well as violence associated not only with a separatist movement in English-speaking regions but also atrocities committed by Boko Haram insurgents. In a release

‘Cafeteria Catholicism’ and navigating the moral dilemmas of US election campaigns in 2024

January 15, 2024

As in every year divisible by four, Americans will elect a president in November 2024. While the major parties’ respective primary processes have already begun, the turn of the new year focuses our national attention on this quadrennial circus. After the parties nominate their respective candidates sometime in late spring or early summer, those nominees