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January 23, 2024

Is the Pope after an ‘Assisi on the Tiber’ to promote his spiritual vision

January 23, 2024

Mikhail Gorbachev once declared that while he remained an atheist, he had to admit that Soviet Communism had never produced anyone quite like Saint Francis, the Poor Man of Assisi, and his universal humanistic appeal. The former Soviet premier, who visited Assisi in 2008, is one in a long list of global figures who’ve been

Concerns mount for six Sisters kidnapped in Haiti

January 23, 2024

It has been confirmed that six religious Sisters were kidnapped by armed assailants in Haiti on 19 January. The abduction took place in Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital, when six Sisters of Saint Anne – who have not been named – were travelling to a university, the Haitian Conference of Religious has confirmed. The gunmen stopped the bus

Pope urges Vatican press corps to resist sinking to ‘commercial media’ standards

January 23, 2024

ROME – In a rare session with members of the Vatican press corps, Pope Francis thanked journalists for their work, urging them to base their reporting on “the solid rock of responsibility in truth” rather than “the fragile sand of gossip and ideological readings”. In the first-of-its-kind meeting during Francis’s 11-year papacy on 22 January,

Could the benefits of married Catholic clergy outweigh the costs?

January 23, 2024

Once in a while the spectre – as it is often made out to be – of allowing married priests to be ordained into the Catholic Church rears its head. We seem to be at one of those juntures again, with the Archbishop of Malta having suggested recently that it is time to end celibacy