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by bcadmin | Sep 21, 2022 | Abortion, Catholic education, Catholic news, Editorials, Faith and Science, News, The Dispatch, YouTube | 0 |
Faith and Science – “The Church established the first exclusively scientific academy in the world. Today, the pope encourages the successors of those first scholars.” Why the Catholic Church is all about following the science […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 4, 2022 | canonisations, Editorials, Magazine, News, Pope Francis, Pope John Paul I, Pope John Paul II, Pope Paul VI beatification, Popes | 0 |
Some popes, like St Gregory the Great, are outstanding embodiments of Christian virtue. But the popes of the last century were not set in that mould
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 8, 2022 | church closures, Editorials, Europe, News, Our Lady and St Paulinus Church, United States, USCCB | 0 |
While the decline of Christianity across the Western world, and especially in Europe, is well-documented, this does not give an entirely accurate picture of what is really going on. While Catholic church attendance is in sharp decline across western Europe, especially France, Germany and Spain, it is rising in the east. Meanwhile, the collapse of
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 29, 2022 | Editorials, Magazine, News, Pope Francis, Sovereign Military Order of Malta | 0 |
It is not, as the Herald goes to press, apparent that the pope will resign, but plainly there is speculation that he may do so this year. He is suffering mobility problems, which mean he often uses a wheelchair, and he can no longer travel for long distances by car or by helicopter. He has
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Read MoreIt comes as no surprise that the leader of the Scottish National Party, Nicola Sturgeon, should have called for a new referendum on the issue of independence and that the prime minister, Boris Johnson, should promptly have said no. This issue will not be resolved soon, but it could gain fresh traction if the next
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 29, 2022 | Cardinal Arinze, Editorials, German Synodal Way, Magazine, News | 0 |
Cardinal Francis Arinze, whom Simon Caldwell interviews in this magazine, carries particular authority in the Church. He is almost 90, and his age gives him a valuably long perspective on events. He was made a bishop in time to attend the last session of the Second Vatican Council when Apostolicam Actuositatem, the decree concerning the
The post Cardinal Arinze upholds the values of Church teaching appeared first on Catholic Herald.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 23, 2022 | Editorials, News, Opinion, Opinion & Features, Opinion Main | 0 |
Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco has finally announced that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi should not be admitted to Holy Communion in his archdiocese, nor should she present herself to receive the Eucharist, until she publicly repudiates her support for abortion. In a letter to the faithful he said, “after numerous attempts to speak with
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Read Moreby bcadmin | May 3, 2022 | Editorials, News, Opinion, Opinion & Features, Opinion Main | 0 |
The abortion wars in the US are not over, the battle lines have merely been redrawn
The post The extraordinary overruling of Roe v. Wade appeared first on Catholic Herald.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 28, 2022 | Editorials, Handel, Magazine, March 2022, Music, News | 0 |
The Royal Opera’s flashy production of ‘Theodora’ reduces its Christian context to a minimum, says Michael White
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 28, 2022 | Editorials, Magazine, March 2022, News, Pilgrimage, Tourism, walking | 0 |
The government’s levelling up white paper, overseen by Michael Gove, is commendable in many ways, not least in being a “moral, social and economic programme for the whole of government”. The document sets out how opportunity will be spread “more equally” across the UK. It aims to “restore a sense of community, local pride and
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 28, 2022 | Editorials, Magazine, March 2022, News | 0 |
As the number of people becoming seriously ill or dying from Covid-19 continues to fall given the mildness of the Omicron variant relative to earlier strains of the virus, states and local governments are gradually lifting some of the more onerous restrictions on normal life. In the Church, individual bishops’ conferences are obliged to respect
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 28, 2022 | Cardinal Silvano Tomasi, Editorials, Magazine, March 2022, News, Pope Francis, The Order of Malta | 0 |
The Pope’s five-year intervention in the affairs of the Order of Malta has not been particularly happy. Some of the Order’s knights and dames feel that the effect of his involvement in its affairs and constitution has been to diminish its autonomy and amounts to an attempt to turn a sovereign order with a unique
The post The Order of Malta has the right to control its affairs appeared first on Catholic Herald.
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