(AFP. France24). El Congreso brasileño anuló un veto del presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva a una disposición que prohíbe destinar dinero público a actividades vinculadas con abortos, cirugías de cambio de…
Day: May 30, 2024
Sako calls for a unified civil law for personal status in Iraq
(ACIMENA. Georgina Behnam Hababa). Patriarch of the Chaldean Church, Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako, called on the Iraqi state to issue a unified civil law for personal status to address religious, sectarian and…
Modi in campagna elettorale prova a seminare zizzania tra cristiani e musulmani
(AsiaNews/Agenzie). Un comizio elettorale a Dumka nello Stato settentrionale del Jharkhand alla viglia della settimana e ultima tornata delle elezioni politiche in India è diventato ieri per il premier Narendra Modi un’occasione…
Monumental working tool facilitates study of sources on celibacy
(CNA. Martin Bürger). Discussions about priestly celibacy are often emotional these days. Reference is regularly made to the so-called “human sciences”, although it is often not clear what exactly this is supposed…
First Byzantine Catholic priestly ordination in St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna
(Kath). Next Saturday, June 1st, Siluan Gall will be ordained a priest in St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna. He belongs to the Greek Catholic Church. It is the first time in the…
Church of South India in limbo after apex court order
(UCA News Reporter). The routine administration of the Church of South India (CSI) has come to a standstill following a top court order that restrained a court-appointed panel from exercising its power….
Pakistan Christians return home amid uneasy calm after attack
At least 50 families have returned to the Mujahid colony in Sargodha district in Punjab province (UCA news Reporter). Christians have started returning home amid a tense calm after the May 25 mob…
Cardinal Marx: Renunciation of Christian traditions promotes radicals
(Katholisch). When it comes to integration , Munich Cardinal Reinhard Marx criticizes the way in which our own traditions are handled. “As a society with Christian roots, we are facing an integration challenge. We…
European bishops criticize Türkiye: “Another heavy blow for interreligious dialogue”
(Kath). The Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE) commented on Thursday, May 23, 2024, on the recent implementation of the Turkish authorities’ decision to convert the Church of…
A Xiamen Vescovi e studiosi di Taiwan e Cina continentale riuniti per “camminare insieme” in un Seminario dedicato all’inculturazione
(Agenzia Fides). “Camminare insieme nell’amore, mano nella mano”: è titolo del Seminario sull’inculturazione svolto congiuntamente da Vescovi e studiosi della Chiesa di Taiwan e della Chiesa della Cina continentale. Continue reading… Subjects:…
Opinion: I’m a Catholic bishop who has found an ally in Bill Maher.
(Opinion by Bishop Robert Barron. CNN). Editor’s Note: Bishop Robert Barron is bishop of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester (Minnesota). He founded the Word on Fire Catholic media ministry and is one of the…
Abusi sui minori: mons. Kennedy (Dicastero per la dottrina della fede), “le nostre statistiche indicano che il fenomeno è come un’onda che tocca una costa dopo l’altra
(Sir). “Sarebbe impossibile indicare degli elementi che sono tipicamente e esclusivamente italiani perché questi delitti non conoscono frontiere o limiti geografiche. Sono crimini internazionali e le nostre statistiche indicano che il fenomeno…
Rifiutano di convertirsi all’islam: 14 cristiani uccisi nel Nord Kivu
(L´Osservatore romano). Arriva da Eringeti, al confine tra le martoriate province del Nord Kivu e dell’Ituri, una delle ultime pagine della violenza senza fine nell’est della Repubblica Democratica del Congo. Quattordici cristiani,…
New clash shows strains in Germany’s ‘synodal coalition’
(The Pillar. LUKE COPPEN). The ZdK, which co-sponsored Germany’s “synodal way,” accused the bishops in a May 28 statement of putting the contentious reform project in jeopardy. In a sharply worded message, ZdK said that…
US bishops express ‘some frustration’ with Vatican in new Synod synthesis report
(Catholic World News). The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has released its national synthesis report for the interim stage of the synod on synodality. The synod’s interim stage followed the October 2023 session of the Synod of…
A Jew sentenced to death under Iranian Sharia Law
(By Marziyeh Amirizadeh. Voices). Recently, the story of a Jewish Iranian man, Arvin Netanel, has been in the news around the world. Arvin is in his early 20s and has been sentenced to…
Cardinal Parolin: ‘Africa is a land of hope’
(By Stanislas Kambashi, SJ. Vatican News). A “moment of joy,” reaffirming the need for our “personal” commitment… This is how Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State, described to Vatican Media the Eucharistic…
Chesterton compie 150 anni, un antidoto contro il male dilagante
(La Nuova Bussola. Paolo Gulisano), Il 29 maggio 1874 nasceva a Londra Gilbert Keith Chesterton, il grande autore cattolico che nei suoi romanzi scrisse le ragioni della Fede. E che oggi è più che…
Pro-lifers sent off to prison, witnesses of light in the darkness
(CWReport. Monica Migliorino Miller ) As behavior protected by the Constitution and regulated by statue in every state, abortion cannot be defined as “public or private injury” As we have shown, the defendants’…
Nearly 40% of Christians prefer not to tell people about their faith: survey
(By Anugrah Kumar. Christian Post) A new survey has revealed that nearly 40% of British Christians prefer not to disclose their religious beliefs. The findings reflect a broader trend of religious reticence in…
E ai bambini il Vaticano offre il trasformista drag queen
(La Nuova Bussola. Andrea Zambrano) Le parole del Papa sulla “frociaggine” mostrano che nella Chiesa l’omoeresia è dilagata. Fino ad arrivare anche ai bambini, ai quali vengono proposti anche spettacoli di trasformismo…
The Countries Where Christianity is Illegal in 2024
(Chandler Peterson in Persecution Trends to Watch) In various parts of the world, practicing Christianity is severely restricted or outright illegal. Though in some countries, the law does not explicitly ban the Christian faith,…
Rocco Buttiglione: el islam «se encuentra una Europa sin identidad, un campo abierto a ser ocupado»
(Religion en Libertad. Jueves, 30 de mayo de 2024 «Vivo», en Famiplay por Corpus Christi Catherine L’Ecuyer: cuatro tecnomitos Claves para triunfar en el amor El jardín donde se ha metido…
An apology (of sorts) over slur
(The CWR. Christopher R. Altieri), Troppa frociaggine. It’s an Italian expression meaning “too much faggotry”—that’s not a rough translation, and the Italian word hits about as hard as the English—and Pope Francis…
Se cumplen 150 años del nacimiento del genial escritor Chesterton: lo celebramos con 15 artículos
(Religion en Libertad. P.J.G.). Gilbert Keith Chesterton, escritor y periodista, famoso por sus aforismos y paradojas, nació hace 150 años, un 29 de mayo de 1874. Converso al catolicismo, de pluma ágil e ingenio…
Vatican makes progress against money laundering, European watchdog says
(Reuters. Staff). The Vatican has made progress in combating money laundering, a European financial watchdog said on Tuesday, handing it higher marks than previously for improving its banking and financial compliance measures….
Il Papa, i gay e le polemiche
(Il Giornale. Vittorio Feltri). Mi preme puntualizzare, per una questione di orgoglio lessicale, che il papa ha mutuato il termine frociaggine dal sottoscritto. Caro Santo, innanzitutto mi preme puntualizzare, per una questione…
Pope’s comments on blessing same-sex couples and gay men in seminaries are not as shocking as some think
(National Catholic Reporter. Michael Sean Winters). The full ambivalence of Pope Francis’ pastoral approach to the issue of homosexuality has come into view, first during his television interview with CBS News’ Norah O’Donnell,…
Afro-Cuban drums, Muslim prayers, Buddhist mantras: Religious diversity blooms in once-atheist Cuba
(National Catholic Reporter. Luis Andrés Henao). The 1959 Castro-led revolution installed an atheist, Communist government that sought to replace the Catholic Church as the guiding force in the lives of Cubans. But…
Víctor Manuel Fernández: «Era mejor verse y hablar sin tapujos»
(Alfa y Omega. María Martínez López). «Era mejor verse cara a cara y hablar sin tapujos». El cardenal Víctor Manuel Fernández, prefecto del Dicasterio para la Doctrina de la Fe, justifica así…