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August 31, 2017

How can the Vatican negotiate while China keeps demolishing churches?

August 31, 2017

Perhaps they could at least ask China to stop the demolitions as a sign of goodwill

The kids are old rite

August 31, 2017

Young Catholics feel they have been denied their inheritance. Where do they go from here?

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August 31, 2017

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A socialism that kills

August 31, 2017

Venezuela shows what happens when you sacrifice reality to ideology

Walk to freedom

August 31, 2017

We are a year away from England’s first national Eucharistic congress in more than a decade. In 12 months’ time organisers will be putting the finishing touches to the three-day event in Liverpool. Thousands are expected to attend the Congress Mass in the Echo Arena. Next year’s congress is unlikely to generate the kind of

The big story of the past seven days

August 31, 2017

✣ Archbishop: I’d go to jail over confessional seal What happened? In a long-expected announcement, the Vatican has confirmed that Pope Francis will visit Burma and Bangladesh this autumn. Francis will arrive in Burma (the first pope to do so) on November 27, then go to Bangladesh from November 30 to December 2. The visit has

The best of the blogosphere

August 31, 2017

✣ Highlights from the week online Kicking the national addiction to rage In his column at CatholicPhilly.com, Archbishop Charles Chaput compared recent political debate in America to the film 28 Days Later, in which a “rage virus … burns through the population like gasoline fire” and leads to social collapse. “We’re not yet tearing at

Diocese has highest number of seminarians for decades

August 31, 2017

The Diocese of Portsmouth will have 14 seminarians at the start of the new academic year, the highest number in living memory. Fr Gerard Flynn, vocations director for the diocese, thanked people for their prayers and asked that they continue to pray for current seminarians and for more vocations. The men are spread across six

Textbooks accused of teaching ‘anti-Catholic myths’

August 31, 2017

The BBC and other textbook providers are repeating baseless “anti-Catholic myths”, an academic has said. David Paton, who holds the chair of Industrial Economics at Nottingham University Business School, made the claim in an article for the Catholic Herald website. Prof Paton said that a “young acquaintance” had told him that “the Catholic Church held

Swiss Guards chief: we’re ready for terror attack

August 31, 2017

The commander of the Swiss Guards has said the elite group sworn to defend the Vatican and the Pope is prepared for a terrorist attack. His remarks came as ISIS released a new video showing its fighters ripping up photographs of Pope Francis and threatening to come to Rome. Christoph Graf told the Swiss Catholic

Nepal launches crackdown on evangelisation

August 31, 2017

The Nepalese president is expected to approve a bill that will outlaw any attempt to convert someone to a different faith, as well as the “hurting of religious sentiment”. The country’s parliament passed the law, which will effectively ban evangelisation, on August 8 as fears grow of a crackdown on religious minorities. Anyone convicted under

Nuncio ‘involved in deal to end Holocaust’

August 31, 2017

The papal nuncio to Switzerland played a crucial role in a plot to stop the Holocaust that may have saved 300,000 lives, a new book will claim. Most historians believe that the Nazis destroyed the death camps to hide the evidence of the millions they slaughtered. But historian and filmmaker Max Wallace believes there is