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June 16, 2016
✣ Highlights from the week online The Jedi bishop Woodworking Bishop-elect David Konderla is making his own crosier, ahead of his ordination as Bishop of Tulsa, Oklahoma, on June 29. Bishop-elect Konderla, who has already made crosiers for four US bishops, told the Catholic News Agency: “Every Jedi has not completed his training until he’s made
Cafod seeks £3m to help feed Ethiopians
June 16, 2016
The bishops’ overseas aid agency Cafod has launched a £3 million emergency appeal to help the millions of people in Ethiopia who face a devastating drought following two failed rainy seasons. More than 10 million people across the country are in dire need of food, clean water and basic sanitation. Patricia Wall, Cafod’s representative in
Prayer meeting ‘banned over extremism’
June 16, 2016
The prime minister has said that using the Prevent counter-terrorism strategy to ban a college Christian Union is “ludicrous”. He was responding to a question in the House of Commons last Wednesday from Fiona Bruce MP. Mrs Bruce mentioned reports that Prevent had been used to stop a Christian Union at an unnamed further education
Catholic historian awarded CBE
June 16, 2016
The Catholic historian and journalist Paul Johnson was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list last week, for services to literature. Mr Johnson’s many books include Pope John XXIII, The Quest for God: A Personal Pilgrimage and Jesus: A Biography from a Believer. He has met several popes, and presented a copy of
In brief
June 16, 2016
Pope backs charity’s call for works of mercy Pope Francis is giving his support to an appeal by Aid to the Church in Need (ACN). In a message released today he will urge people to “carry out works of mercy together with ACN in every corner of the world” as part of an initiative called
Pontiff expresses ‘deepest horror’ at massacre
June 16, 2016
Pope Francis has expressed the “deepest feelings of horror and condemnation” after a massacre at a Florida nightclub that killed at least 49 people and injured 53 more. The Vatican spokesman Fr Federico Lombardi said in a statement that the Pontiff denounced the “senseless hatred” of the shooting at the Pulse nightclub in the early
Pan-Orthodox Council hangs in the balance
June 16, 2016
The Pan-Orthodox Council, which is due to begin on Sunday, was hanging in the balance this week after two of the 14 invited churches withdrew and others expressed major reservations. As the council neared collapse, 50 Orthodox scholars signed an open letter urging the churches to press ahead with the gathering. But Metropolitan Hilarion, the Moscow
Spanish cardinal reported for hate crime
June 16, 2016
Campaigners in Spain have called for the government to prosecute Cardinal Antonio Cañ­izares, who has denounc­ed the influence of gender ideology and what he called a “gay empire”. In a homily on May 13, Card­inal Cañizares, who is former prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for Divine Worship and current Archbishop of Valencia, said: “The family
Feast day for St Mary Magdalene
June 16, 2016
Pope Francis has raised the celebration of St Mary Magdalene’s memorial to a feast day. Archbishop Arthur Roche, Secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship, announced the change. He said it emphasised “the dignity of women, the New Evangelisation, and the greatness of the mystery of Divine Mercy”. The status of a feast is higher than
In brief
June 16, 2016
Consistory called to approve canonisations Pope Francis will preside over a consistory on Monday to approve the canonisation of five new saints, the Vatican said this week. The Blesseds include Elizabeth of the Trinity, a Carmelite mystic known as St Thérèse of Lisieux’s “spiritual sister”. St John Paul II relic stolen from cathedral A cloth
Saint of the week St Thomas More (June 22)
June 16, 2016
Early success Born in 1478, Thomas More was called the most virtuous man in British history by both Jonathan Swift and Samuel Johnson. He was born into a comfortably off family, and – despite trying his vocation with the Carthusians – entered the legal profession, through which he rose to become Lord Chancellor to Henry
Cafod to keep Tina Beattie as adviser despite views on abortion
June 16, 2016
The theologian had signed a letter to Polish bishops calling for 'early, safe and legal abortion'
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