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Recently, a very well regarded prelate of the Church — whom I happen really to believe to be a very good and holy man — tweeted about the Moderna coronavirus vaccine. He wrote that vaccine "is ...
A broad constitutional reform promoted by the Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, will probably increase the political persecution of the Catholic Church ...
On the hunt for a lost Scottish holy well (after forgetting the map) can take one’s thoughts to things divine ...
Doctors in England and Wales are to be denied the right to conscientiously object to involvement in assisted suicides under a Bill published yesterday. Under Section 4 of the Terminally Ill Adults ...
Bertrand Bonello has lately distinguished himself for using cinema in arguably its most valuable application: philosophical exploration. In his 2016 film Nocturama, he showed us that the spoils of ...
The 2024 Faith and Freedom Index reveals fluctuating and often low levels of religious freedom across the United States, especially in the majority of the seven swing states being contested on 5 ...
The only people involved in a child’s education who have an overview of the whole process, from babyhood to adulthood, and who truly know the child, and his or her needs and ambitions, are ...
Queen Elizabeth I and Sir Walter Raleigh have gone the same way as William Ewart Gladstone and Margaret Thatcher at No 10 Downing Street, the residence of the British Prime Minister. Paintings of ...
Twenty years ago, the last reigning Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary was beatified by St Pope John Paul II in Rome. The legacy of Emperor Karl von Habsburg (1887 – 1922) is complex and the ...
The Holy Father has done it again: 21 new prelates of his liking to be made cardinals on 8 December. By this stage of the Francis papacy the list comes as no surprise. Obvious contenders have been ...
Lebanon caught by political and economic interests working against peace, warns Maronite bishop ...
The theme for the 53rd International Eucharistic Congress in Ecuador last month was “Fraternity to heal the World”. The gathering promises showed fraternity in action, with an extraordinary ...