Lebanese Christian leader: alliance with Hezbollah imperiled

BEIRUT — The head of Lebanon’s largest Christian party said on Sunday that a 15-year-old alliance with the country’s powerful Shiite group Hezbollah was no longer working and must evolve. The televised speech by Gebran Bassil, who heads the Free Patriotic Movement, signaled an unprecedented level of frustration with Hezbollah and suggested the 2006 alliance […]

Dublin archbishop: ‘Radical change is coming in the church’

DUBLIN — After a year at the head of the Archdiocese of Dublin, Archbishop Dermot Farrell said, “Radical change is coming in the church,” which will see a renewal of energy and new forms of ministry. “With a powerful commitment from clergy and lay faithful, across the full range of the life and ministry of […]

Wearing a mask at Mass is a small sacrifice pleasing to God, priest says

ROME — Wearing a high-filtering mask over one’s nose and mouth at Mass “is a small sacrifice we can bring to the altar as an offering pleasing to God for the good of all his children,” said Father Roberto Colombo, a geneticist and member of the Pontifical Academy for Life. As the omicron variant of […]

France inches closer to COVID shot mandate

If the government’s bill becomes law, the sanitary pass that has been in place since the beginning of August for all people over 18 will create a disguised vaccine obligation.