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Feast of Divine Mercy Sunday to be offered up for a ‘hurting world’

April 04, 2024

The Feast of Divine Mercy Sunday is occurring this weekend on 7 April. Celebrated on the first Sunday after Easter, Divine Mercy Sunday focuses on the gift of mercy and love given through Christ’s death, burial and resurrection. “Our goal [is] to show to the contemporary lost man the richness of God’s Mercy, from the

Legendary and nearly beatified US Army chaplain honoured with statue by Kansas

March 28, 2024

NEW YORK – A Catholic priest from the Diocese of Wichita who served as an Army chaplain in both World War II and the Korean war, risking his life to minister to troops on the front lines, will soon have a permanent statue in his honour at the state Capitol in Kansas. On 22 March,

How the deep faith of John Studzinski has imbued his work in the worlds of finance and philanthropy

March 17, 2024

The following interview is part of a series called Profiles in Faith, exploring ways in which the personal and professional lives of noteworthy individuals have been shaped by their Catholic faith. Here Amanda Bowman speaks with financier and philanthropist John Studzinski. Amanda Bowman: As someone who has been so successful as a business leader, could

Poland grapples with changes to abortion law as Catholic Church hits back

February 01, 2024

Poland’s Catholic Church has spoken out against proposals by Poland’s new ruling coalition to liberalise the country’s abortion law and restore prescription-free access to the morning-after contraceptive pill. Civic Coalition (KO), the largest group in Poland’s ruling coalition, has submitted a bill to parliament to introduce abortion on demand up to the 12th week of pregnancy.

Women continue to be reduced to their economic output by Conservative government

January 29, 2024

As the UK General Election draws ever nearer, we can expect to see some desperate attempts from the Conservative Party to paint the last 14 years as a success story for Tory policy. But one effort last week from the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions set the bar pretty high for delusional framing.

30 years on, the lessons of ‘Veritatis Splendor’ are being ignored

October 24, 2023

In her ground-breaking paper ‘Modern Moral Philosophy’ (1958), Elizabeth Anscombe famously stated “if someone really thinks, in advance, that it is open to question whether such an action as procuring the judicial execution of the innocent should be quite excluded from consideration – I do not want to argue with him; he shows a corrupt mind”. Her target

Not all popes deserve to be canonised

August 04, 2022

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

Responsibility, Accountability, Transparency: The State of Church Reform

April 24, 2021

If there are stalwart reformers -- and we know there are some of the clerisy genuinely committed to the work of ripping out the rot and repairing the Church's leadership culture -- we might nonetheless reasonably wonder whether they have the wherewithal to bring about meaningful reform.