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February 2018

February 01, 2018
L'Osservatore Romano announced last Saturday that Pope Francis has chosen the Portuguese priest poet Father...

January 2018

January 29, 2018
Does the Hungarian Catholic Church have a problem with anti-Semitism? The question returned to the...
January 25, 2018
A 'no' from Pope Francis this Wednesday to "fake news", and a 'yes' to a...
January 22, 2018
Further evidence that the highest circles of the Church disapprove strongly of the "Benedict option",...
January 18, 2018
All over Europe today, "religion plays a role of the epicenter of cultural resistance to...
January 15, 2018
A devastating rebuke last week of Pope Francis' critics by the Italian philosopher Massimo Borghesi....
January 11, 2018
In all the reports I've read about the new Archbishop of Paris, Michel Aupetit, one...
January 08, 2018
Nearly half-a-million Catholics in Bosnia-Herzegovina continue to suffer the pains of the 1992-1995 Bosnian war....
January 04, 2018
An interesting claim last week by The Economist: "Clergy are colliding with Christian soldiers across...

December 2017

December 21, 2017
"Only in a world without ethics, neutrality, impartiality and objectivity are synonymous". This is the...
December 18, 2017
Good news on the interfaith front from Florence, where the Church has agreed to sell...
December 14, 2017
Pope Francis has dealt out yet another rap on the knuckles of those European countries...
December 11, 2017
In a message to mark International Human Rights Day this past Sunday, the Justice and...
December 07, 2017
Yet another powerful figure in the Church has spoken in favor of Amoris laetitia, the...
December 04, 2017
Two months after taking possession of the see the new Archbishop of Milan, Mario Delpini,...

November 2017

November 30, 2017
A group of nine Orthodox theologians from theology schools in Greece and the US has...
November 27, 2017
"Identifying immigrants and refugees with criminals is enormously injust". This Monday noon that of the...
November 24, 2017
From our uncompromising vocation for quality religion news, and prompted by both the process of...
November 21, 2017
This Monday saw the beginning, in Madrid, of a week in homage to Cardinal Vicente...
November 16, 2017
A moving message was made public today from Pope Francis to the European Regional Meeting...
November 13, 2017
Are we near the end of compulsory clerical celibacy? The whispers have been in the...
November 09, 2017
"No, no change and no demolishing the dubia… the dubia are authoritative and clearly legitimate"....
November 06, 2017
The Secretary for Seminaries of the Congregation for Clergy in the Vatican, Archbishop Jorge Carlos...
November 02, 2017
Breaking news this Thursday afternoon from Catalonia as a Spanish High Court judge orders the Catalonian deputy...

October 2017

October 30, 2017
Today on the blog we return to Spain, where we'll look at some Church reactions...
October 26, 2017
"The Bible" apparently provides license, in Portugal, for a man to abuse his wife. This...
October 23, 2017
Consternation in Malta and around the world this week after the car-bomb slaying on Monday...
October 19, 2017
"For the Church, a political project derives legitimacy from its impact on human persons –...
October 16, 2017
"The Polish revolt against Pope Francis: the racist drift of the bishops of Warsaw", screamed...
October 12, 2017
We need to speak of roots in the plural because there are so many. In...
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