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March 26, 2024

New evidence indicates Turin Shroud not a European forgery

March 26, 2024

New scientific tests conducted on the famous Shroud of Turin have revealed that the flax used to make the linen was grown in the Middle East. The results of isotope tests provide new evidence that the shroud is the actual garment that was used to cover the body of Jesus Christ following his crucifixion –

‘Prayer for Holy Week’ by Elizabeth Jennings: ‘Love me in my willingness to suffer’

March 26, 2024

Prayer for Holy Week Love me in my willingness to sufferLove me in the gifts I wish to offer Teach me how you love and have to die And I will try Somehow to forget myself and giveLife and joy so dead things start to live. Let me show now an untrammelled joy, Gold without

Archbishop of Moscow urges against ‘despair’ following terrorist attack in Russian capital

March 26, 2024

Archbishop Pavel Pezzi of Moscow has offered his “deepest condolences” to the victims and relatives of a “brutal terrorist attack” in Russia’s capital on the evening of 22 March. At least 133 people were killed at a concert hall in Krasnogorsk, a suburb of Moscow. The Islamic State group’s Afghanistan branch claimed responsibility for the

This Holy Week occurs amid an intensifying battle between the cultures of Life and Death

March 26, 2024

During his liturgical reflection for the Monday of this Holy Week, Dom Guéranger meditates: “This city [Jerusalem] is zealous for the exteriors of divine worship; but her heart is hard and obstinate, and she is plotting, at this very hour, the death of the Son of God.” In our own age we face a culture that

Gaza ceasefire ‘finally a step closer’ after UN Security Council resolution, says CAFOD

March 26, 2024

The United Nations Security Council on 26 March passed a resolution that calls for an immediate cease-fire during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. It also called for an unconditional release of all hostages. According to CAFOD, England’s leading Catholic international aid agency, as a result of the UN resolution, the conditions needed to prevent

‘The Passion of Jesus’ returns to Trafalgar Square on Good Friday

March 26, 2024

A full-scale re-enactment of the Passion of Jesus is returning to Trafalgar Square this Good Friday in central London. First performed in 2010 by the Wintershall company, the open-air The Passion of Jesus production, commemorating the day Jesus was arrested, tried and crucified by the Romans, before miraculously rising from the dead on Easter Sunday;