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November 22, 2018
It is, perversely, a mark of Catholicism’s success that it is being targeted in Africa
November 22, 2018
Cryptic across 5 Rum’s a precious sea throwback, totally (8) 7 Register with HQ, say? (4) 9 Perhaps a converted preacher helped Paul in Colossae (8) 10 Unimportant-seeming part is able to uplift the French spirit (6) 12 Belief in Tokyo that part of the leg is almost digitally attached? (6) 13 King of Judah
November 22, 2018
The way to head off the worst strains of nationalism is to pre-empt them with more humane appeals to legitimate concerns for national identity
November 22, 2018
The big story of the past seven days ✣ Vatican intervenes at US bishops’ assembly What happened? Late afternoon on Sunday, the day before US bishops gathered in Baltimore, Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, the bishops’ conference president, received a letter from Cardinal Marc Ouellet, prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for Bishops, asking the American bishops to
November 22, 2018
Cardinal Joseph Zen, emeritus of Hong Kong, was in Rome earlier this month to hand-deliver a letter to Pope Francis about the escalating persecution of the Catholic Church in China. This is becoming something of a pattern in Rome, where bishops urgently arrive to ask for a correction in the Holy See’s foreign policy. The
November 22, 2018
Our own holiness will mend the Church SIR – In the opening paragraph of his article “The root of the abuse crisis” (August 31), Christopher Altieri asks the question: “How did we get here?” The abuse within the Church has horrified us all, from the lay faithful to the faithful bishops, including the Pope. Much
November 22, 2018
Paradise, United States Pope Francis prays for victims of wildfires Addressing pilgrims in St Peter’s Square on Sunday, Pope Francis prayed for the victims of the Californian wildfires. He asked that “the Lord welcome the deceased into his peace, comfort family members and sustain all those involved in rescue efforts”. Francis said he wanted to
November 22, 2018
The souls in Purgatory are our brothers and sisters, and there are several simple ways we can help to lessen their sufferings and speed them towards Paradise. The most basic is to pray for them, as the Church especially encourages in November. We can also offer sacrifices – a short fast, or persistent back pain,
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