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Nuns open restaurant offering free food in London – named ‘Nundos’
October 19, 2017
The restaurant opened in Shoreditch as part of Channel 5's ‘Bad Habits, Holy Orders’ series
Pope Francis praises John Wesley for leading people to ‘knowledge of Jesus Christ’
October 19, 2017
He was celebrating 50 years of dialogue with the World Methodist Council
Francis announces synod for the Amazon
October 19, 2017
Pope Francis has announced a special gathering of the synod of bishops focusing on the Amazon region. Speaking at the end of a Mass in St Peter’s Square, the Pope said the synod, in 2019, would seek to identify new paths of evangelisation, especially for indigenous people who are “often forgotten and left without the
Diocese criticises ‘Coldplay Mass’
October 19, 2017
A Mexican archdiocese has distanced itself from a “Coldplay Mass” celebrated at a Jesuit university. The advertisement for the Mass at Mexico City’s Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla promised that worshippers would be able to “listen and reflect on the songs of the British group”, and “see how their messages interweave” with the liturgy. A video uploaded
Saint of the week: Pope Boniface I (October 25)
October 19, 2017
A time of schism Boniface did not want to become pope; he took up the role in 418 during a major crisis, and seems to have been chosen because, at such a dire time, only a saint would do. An old man, known for his orthodoxy, kindness and virtue, Boniface immediately faced a faction of
Pope canonises martyrs of the New World
October 19, 2017
Pope Francis has proclaimed 35 new saints, most of whom were martyrs killed as Catholicism spread in South America. Among them are the “martyrs of Natal” – a group of 30 Catholics massacred by armed groups led by Dutch Calvinists. The group, killed in north Brazil in 1645, included a child and a priest who
BBC exam guide retracts Church history claim
October 19, 2017
BBC Bitesize has retracted the claim that the Church banned dissection in the Middle Ages after a complaint from an academic. The popular revision website had told GCSE students that “the Church played a big part in medical stagnation” partly by “forbidding the dissection of corpses”. Professor David Paton, who wrote a blogpost for catholicherald.co.uk
Priest stabbed to death in Cairo
October 19, 2017
A Coptic Orthodox priest was stabbed to death on a street in Cairo last week. Fr Samaan Shehata had been walking through a poor area of the city when he was attacked. A man has been arrested, Associated Press reported. Christians in Egypt have faced a surge in attacks this year, with a series of
China’s barring of Catholic activist provokes furore
October 19, 2017
The Foreign Office is to hold “urgent” talks with China after a Catholic human rights activist was denied entry to Hong Kong. Benedict Rogers, a long-standing critic of Beijing and a writer for the Catholic Herald, was turned away while attempting to visit friends in the city’s pro-democracy movement. The incident prompted protests among campaigners
Marriage vote stirs up attacks on churches
October 19, 2017
Churches in Australia have been daubed with anti-Christian graffiti amid an increasingly toxic debate about same-sex marriage. Last weekend Anglican and Baptist churches in Melbourne were defaced with the words “bash bigots” and “Crucify ‘no’ voters” – a reference to those who are voting “no” in a same-sex marriage plebiscite. Another piece of graffiti equated
Updated: Polish bishops consider new document on accompanying the divorced and remarried
October 18, 2017
The council cited the traditional teaching reaffirmed by John Paul II and Benedict XVI
Archbishop Gänswein denies rumours Benedict XVI close to death
October 18, 2017
The former Pope's personal secretary said the rumours were 'false and wrong'
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