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The enduring power of the Christian funeral
January 09, 2023
I have heard it said that every funeral, whatever the scale and whatever the setting, ought to be in some sense a confrontation with death. Modern secular funerals increasingly dodge that confrontation, with growing trends for bright colours, upbeat songs and relaxed dress codes. Jokes and light-hearted eulogies are the order of the day. The
On the Tenth Day of Christmas: Urbi et Orbi
January 03, 2023
Pope Francis’s address before the traditional Urbi et Orbi blessing from the balcony of St Peter’s Basilica on Christmas Day 2022 – in case anyone missed it the first time around. Dear brothers and sisters in Rome and throughout the world, Merry Christmas! May the Lord Jesus, born of the Virgin Mary, bring to all
Pope Francis orders return of Parthenon fragments to Greece
December 20, 2022
Pope Francis has ordered the return of three Parthenon fragments which have been held in the papal collections of the Vatican Museums for centuries to Greece. The Vatican has announced that Pope Francis will give the 2,500-year-old fragments to His Beatitude Ieronymos II, the Orthodox archbishop of Athens and All Greece, as a gesture of
The Pontifical Academy for Life—A Sequel
December 19, 2022
Photo: Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia watches as Pope Francis addresses the General Assembly of the Pontifical Academy for Life on 5 October 2017. ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP via Getty Images In a recent comment piece commissioned by the Catholic Herald I addressed the clamour of concern raised in the Catholic media at some of the recent appointments to
Cardinal Ouellet sues for defamation over sexual assault accusations
December 14, 2022
Cardinal Ouellet said in a statement on Tuesday that he was suing a woman who accused him of sexual assault more than a decade ago when he was the archbishop of Quebec. A prominent figure at the Vatican, Canadian Cardinal Marc Armand Ouellet is the Prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops and President of the
Discerning the work of the Spirit
December 02, 2022
Two pontificates. Two very different synodal visions. Which is correct?
Walsingham rector appointed new Auxiliary Bishop of Southwark
November 29, 2022
(Photo credit: Marcin Mazur) Pope Francis has appointed the rector of the Marian shrine at Walsingham as a new Auxiliary Bishop of Southwark. Mgr Philip Moger, 67, a former banker who has served as a priest of the Diocese of Leeds for 40 years, will be ordained on February 21 in St George’s Cathedral London.
What is the Catholic take on cryptocurrency?
November 28, 2022
Earlier this month, a conference held in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, brought together ideas from two seemingly distant worlds. The first-ever Catholic Crypto Conference gathered over 250 Catholics – theologians, philosophers, cryptocurrency enthusiasts and professionals from the financial services industry among others – to discuss the relationship between Catholicism and cryptocurrencies. More attended online. The ethos
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