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Ecuador renews its standing as world’s first country consecrated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus

April 02, 2024

Ecuador has renewed its historic consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, first carried out 150 years ago. Archbishop Alfredo José Espinoza Mateus of Quito offered a solemn Mass at the start of Holy Week in the Basilica of the National Vow in the Ecuadorian capital, where the original painting showing the consecration of Ecuador

‘A tidal wave of truths’: Thomas Merton on the power of the Mass reliving the crucifixion

March 31, 2024

The Mass wields enormous power through its connection to Christ’s death on the cross, wrote Thomas Merton, the American Trappist monk, writer, theologian and mystic. “O my God, with what might You sometimes choose to teach a man’s soul Your immense lessons!” Merton wrote in his memoir the Seven Storey Mountain about his spiritual journey

BBC to feature St Winefride’s Well in Good Friday broadcast of ‘Pilgrimage’

March 29, 2024

The BBC will tonight screen the first of three hour-long episodes of its series Pilgrimage following seven celebrity pilgrims, of differing faiths and beliefs, on a spiritual journey across North Wales. The sixth series of the BBC2 programme takes the well-known personalities along the North Wales Pilgrim’s Way. The route celebrates Celtic early Christian saints,

£950,000 secured for ‘urgent repairs’ at first Catholic church built in Welsh Valleys

March 28, 2024

This year’s Easter celebrations at St Illtyd’s Catholic Church in Wales have received an additional boost with the church being granted funding for urgent repairs costing nearly a million pounds. The roof at St Illtyd’s Church and Community Centre in Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil, has deteriorated at an alarming rate, leading to more and more leaks

One of the Last Supper ‘greats’ arrives at National Gallery in time for Easter

March 28, 2024

Nicolas Poussin’s Eucharist, considered one of the greatest paintings of the Last Supper, has been acquired by the National Gallery in time for Easter. Eucharist (painted around 1637‒40) is one of a cycle of seven scenes Poussin did in the second half of the 1630s showing the Catholic Sacraments (those rites through which divine grace is

Amendment to stop abortion up to birth for Down’s syndrome tabled for UK Government Bill

March 27, 2024

An amendment to the Government’s Criminal Justice Bill that would bring the abortion time limit for babies with Down’s syndrome in line with the time limit for babies that do not have disabilities has been signed by 40 MPs from across the British political spectrum. The abortion time limit under the UK’s Abortion Act is set at

‘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;

Cancelled new bishop for Plymouth resumes parish ministry

March 25, 2024

Canon Christopher Whitehead is resuming his parish ministry following the sudden cancellation of his ordination as the new Plymouth bishop two months ago, which included his role as a parish priest being put on pause during a subsequent investigation. In an unprecedented move at the start of the year, the bishops of England and Wales cancelled the

‘The Donkey’ by GK Chesterton: ‘Fools! For I also had my hour’

March 25, 2024

When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn, Some moment when the moon was blood Then surely I was born. With monstrous head and sickening cry And ears like errant wings, The devil’s walking parody On all four-footed things. The tattered outlaw of the earth, Of ancient crooked will; Starve, scourge, deride

Foetal sentience Bill progresses after Lords debate

March 23, 2024

A Bill to establish a government advisory committee to study and establish the development of unborn children has progressed in the House of Lords. Lord Moylan’s Foetal Sentience Committee Bill, which intends to create a committee to act as a source of evidence-based scientific expertise on the sentience of unborn babies in accord with developments

Vatican finally reins in German bishops over ‘schismatic’ synodal agenda

March 23, 2024

ROME – The Vatican has reined in the German bishops amid proposals to break from Church unity on innovations such as women priests, married priests, blessings of same-sex couples in churches and baptisms by women. The Holy See announced last night that the German bishops will ensure all reforms within the German Catholic Church comply

Saint of the Week: Saint Patrick

March 22, 2024

Bishop († c. 461) Feast Day: 17 March Happy the gentle: they shall have the earth for their heritage (Mt 5:4). According to Pope Francis, “Meekness can be seen by how one reacts to a hostile situation. Anyone can appear meek when everything is peaceful, but how does one react if one is under attack, offended,

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