Cardinal Fernández explains the ‘novelty’ of new Vatican doc on dignity
In a church that values tradition, the idea of “novelty” strikes some people as strange, and a reporter asked the cardinal if people could expect that in another 80 years the teaching in the document would change again.
Kenyan Catholic bishop urges Parliament to reject LGBT ideology
The Kenyan Catholic Bishops’ Conference argued that the LGBT agenda threatens the ‘basis of social order’ in the nation, urging legislators to protect marriage and the family in law.
Belief and Observance
When I was at All Souls College at Oxford some years ago I had a conversation during a Saturday evening dinner that has stayed in my mind ever since. Saturday dinners were poorly attended, and so we did not dine in the Great Hall, as usual, but in the smaller “dessert room.” This was my […]
European Court of Human Rights rules on climate change cases
The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday rules that Switzerland’s failure to adequately work to meet emission reduction targets amounted to a vioaltion of human rights. Read all
Kenyan Catholic bishop urges Parliament to reject LGBT ideology
The Kenyan Catholic Bishops’ Conference argued that the LGBT agenda threatens the ‘basis of social order’ in the nation, urging legislators to protect marriage and the family in law.Read More
ROME 24/3– Day 20: Jasmine Report (no, not the Jesuit)
In Rome the sun rose at 06:37 and it will set at 19:47. The Ave Maria should ring at 20:00. Today is a 4th class feria, so I celebrated a Votive Mass of the Holy Angels and offered it for … Read More →
More than 700 baptized on Easter in Nigeria despite rise in attacks on Christians
Bishop Gerald Mamman Musa of Nigeria’s Catholic Diocese of Katsina. / Credit: Abuja Archdiocese ACI Africa, Apr 9, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA). More than 700 Christians were baptized on Easter Sunday in Nigeria’s Catholic Diocese of Katsina, where there is a rise in attacks mainly targeting Christian communities. In an April 3 interview with […]
Catholic bishop protests deportation by Mexican immigration authorities
Bishop Joseph Khawam is apostolic exarch for the Melkite Church in Venezuela and apostolic administrator of the Melkite Eparchy in Mexico. / Credit: Facebook screenshot/Bishop Joseph Khawam ACI Prensa Staff, Apr 9, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA). A bishop of the Melkite rite, one of the more than 20 Eastern rites of the Catholic Church […]
New Vatican document shows pope’s “unique” approach to issues of human dignity, says moral theologian
Interview with Professor Alain Thomasset, a Jesuit priest who teaches moral theology at the Loyola Faculty of Theology in Paris.
Survey: 21% of US adults attend religious services weekly (Gallup)
21% of US adults attend religious services weekly, and an additional 9% attend almost every week, according to Gallup, which interviewed over 32,000 people between 2021 and 2023. 23% of surveyed Catholics attend Mass weekly, and an additional 10% attend almost every week. 17% said they attend once a month, 32% seldom attend, and 18% […]