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January 25, 2024

German diocese under prominent progressive bishop sees no annual ordinations for first time in 200 years

January 25, 2024

The diocese under the tenure of the president of the German bishops’ conference and its Synodaler Weg – German Synodal Way – has ordained no priests in an annual period for the first time since its creation in 1821. The Diocese of Limburg in western Germany, which is led by Bishop Georg Bätzing, in 2023

The Knights Hospitaller still take up arms in the 21st century: getting to grips with medieval combat in Normandy

January 25, 2024

The Military Order of St John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta (the Knights Hospitaller) is known in modern Catholic circles today less as defenders of Christendom at the siege of Acre (with knights tying themselves to chairs with ropes when too wounded to fight standing) and more as a group that goes on

Vatican court overturns priest’s acquittal in landmark seminary sexual abuse case

January 25, 2024

ROME – A Vatican court has overturned the acquittal of a priest accused of sexually abusing a fellow student at the Vatican’s St. Pius X Pre-Seminary, delivering a guilty verdict in a landmark case that marked the first time a case for alleged sexual abuse went to trial within Vatican walls. Upon appeal from the

Six kidnapped Sisters freed in Haiti

January 25, 2024

Six religious Sisters kidnapped by armed assailants in Haiti on 19 January have been freed. The group was released late on Wednesday, 25 January, and all the nuns are in good condition, the archbishop of Port-au-Prince told The Associated Press. “Thanks to God for helping us,” said Archbishop Max Leroy Mésidor. He declined to confirm whether a ransom was

EXCLUSIVE: Calls for ‘urgent’ inquiry into amendments to legalise late-term abortion in UK

January 25, 2024

The UK government is being called to launch an urgent inquiry after the medical director of one of the UK’s largest abortion providers reportedly used his position at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) to issue new guidance to pressurise Parliament to support two amendments to the Criminal Justice Bill related to legalising late-term

FEATURE: ‘The Last Priests and Nuns in Ireland’ – a missed opportunity to move beyond the same old tropes

January 25, 2024

I get a knot of anxiety in my stomach when I hear news of another documentary about religion or, rather, about Catholicism in Ireland. It isn’t because I am squeamish and don’t want to face up to the scandals the Church has faced and been part of in Ireland, or because I can’t deal with