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February 06, 2024

We’ve been here before, says John L Allen Jr, as the arguments continue. After years of ferment in Catholicism over a highly sensitive matter of sexual morality, marked in almost equal measure by both expectation and dread of a possible change in official teaching, the Vatican issues a landmark document seeking to resolve the issue.

Pope turns to female theologians for advice on women’s roles in Church

February 06, 2024

ROME – After completing a massive overhaul of the Roman curia in 2022, Pope Francis has turned his attention to the topic of women as part of his reforming efforts, inviting several female theologians and a female Anglican bishop to address his Council of Cardinals, what Francis informally calls his “kitchen cabinet”. For the past

Confirmation: Catholic priest did not provide key reference in alkaline attacker’s asylum claim

February 06, 2024

The suspect in the Clapham chemical attack was primarily assisted in his asylum application by a Baptist minister and not the Catholic Church, it has emerged. Abdul Shokoor Ezedi, an Afghan, is suspected of throwing a corrosive alkaline substance over a woman and two children in South London, leaving the 31-year-old woman with such “life-changing”

Nigerian bishop warns country risks turning into a sprawling charnel house

February 06, 2024

YAOUNDÈ, Cameroon – A leading African prelate has stated that the lack of political will to end rising insecurity in Nigeria “is turning our country into one wide funeral home”. The Bishop of Sokoto, Mathew Hassan Kukah, in northern Nigeria, issued a sweeping critique of President Bola Tinubu’s handling of the country’s multiple woes during

Sinn Fein gains more power: are Christian values in Ireland under threat?

February 06, 2024

As devolved government returns to Northern Ireland for the first time in two years, a Sinn Fein leader takes the position of First Minister of Northern Ireland on the back of becoming the largest party in the Northern Irish Assembly in the 2022 elections. With a Nationalist party now holding the most seats in Northern