Spanish PM meets with head of country’s bishops’ conference
Spanish prime minister Pedro Sanchez meets with Cardinal Juan José Omella Jan. 24, 2022. / CEE Madrid, Spain, Jan 25, 2022 / 17:11 pm (CNA). Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez visited the president of the Spanish Bishops’ Conference, Cardinal… […]
Petition asks bishop to reconsider ‘devastating’ restrictions on Latin Mass in Arlington diocese
Noah Peters, who created a petition to Bishop Michael Burbidge, said the restrictions of the traditional sacraments and Masses in his diocese are ‘devastating’ to Catholic communities and vocations.Read More
New York mask mandate back in effect one day after judge strikes it down
The mask mandate ‘was promulgated and enacted unlawfully,’ rendering it ‘void and unenforceable,’ a New York judge had ruled Monday.Read More
When the Fight for Life Scores Points
MSI Reproductive Choices is a well-established NGO: 9,000 employees in 37 countries around the world, in order to “compassionately offer high-quality reproductive health care for all,” meaning abortion and contraception. In its activity report for 2021, MSI alerts the public to the risk of what would be the “largest setback in the right to abortion […]
The Catholic Church Loses Millions of Faithful in Latin America
The Spanish and Portuguese-speaking American continent is ceasing to be predominantly Catholic. Neither documents, nor synods, nor a thousand-and-one conditional pastoral plans seem to be able to prevent millions of baptized Catholics from joining Protestant church communities, especially those of Pentecostal denominations. In 1995, 80% of the Latin American population identified as Catholic. By 2018, […]
An Anti-Abortion Maltese Ascends to the Presidency of the European Parliament
The election of the one who was interim president since the death of David Sassoli, who was the previous president, is not a surprise. Indeed, at the end of the 2019 European elections, won by the EPP, the latter had to unite with the Liberals (Renew) and the Social Democrats (S&D) to form a parliamentary […]
In the Shadow of the Pyramids, Christians Begin to Breathe
A bill intending to carve out a tailor-made legal status for the Christian minority of the country will be examined by Parliament, as soon as it returns. The preliminary examination of the text – desired by Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sissi, upon his accession to power in 2014 – nevertheless took a long time. The revision […]
Emmanuel Macron Wants EU Charter of Rights to Recognize a Right to Abortion
And for good measure, he proposed “to update the Charter of Fundamental Rights [of the EU], in particular to be more explicit on … the recognition of the right to abortion.” The speech was intended to present the line that the presidency would follow for its 6-month term, but Macron took advantage of it to […]
Kurdistan: A Museum for Rescued Chaldean Manuscripts
The museum will be built in Ankawa, a district of Erbil inhabited mainly by Christians, in a building adjacent to the institute which houses Chaldean priests and seminarians. This heritage is a valuable testimony to the roots of Christian communities of apostolic origin in the lands of present-day Iraq. The documents that the museum will […]
U.S. senators call out Finland for prosecuting Christians on trial for defending traditional marriage
‘We are greatly concerned that the use of Finnish law is tantamount to a secular blasphemy law,’ a letter from the senators states.