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Poland: ‘The Rosary to the Borders,’ criticized as anti-Islamic

The Polish Episcopal Conference has issued the following statement: Several million Poles prayed the rosary at the same time throughout the country on October 7. This was the largest prayer event in Europe after the 2016 World Youth Day. “The Rosary to the Borders” is the name of the prayer initiative, which took place on […]

German-speaking bishops move to take full control over liturgical translations

Catholic bishops in the German-speaking countries of Europe have been at odds with the Vatican for years over a controversial and never-implemented translation of the Missal, the Latin prototype for the celebration of the Roman Catholic liturgy. Germany’s bishops never even mentioned the disputed translation last month in the final report of the national episcopal […]

Hilarion: Russia and European Christians for the Salvation of the Continent

On 22 September, Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeev), the “Foreign Minister” of the Moscow Patriarchate, delivered an important speech at a conference organized by the Russian Embassy in London in front of diplomats, politicians, entrepreneurs and exponents of the major religious confessions. The Metropolitan’s address developed the main theses that have marked the positions of the Russian […]

AUSTRALIAN CHURCH FACING BIGGEST CRISIS IN ITS HISTORY, SAYS BRISBANE ARCHBISHOP

A leading Australian bishop says the Church in his country is facing the biggest crisis in its history after taking part in talks with the Vatican over how to address the problem. The Archbishop of Brisbane, Mark Coleridge, who is Vice President of the Australian Bishops’ Conference, told The Tablet that he and fellow bishops were in […]

Will a visit from Pope Francis compel Aung San Suu Kyi to act?

For the past three weeks, the world has watched aghast as Myanmar’s military has carried out the latest, most deadly phase of a five-year operation against the Muslim Rohingya people who number about 1.1-1.3 million. It has been an outrageously outsized reaction by Myanmar’s notorious military, known as the Tatmadaw, to a small attack by […]

Francis responds to critics: Morality of ‘Amoris Laetitia’ is Thomist

Pope Francis appears to have responded indirectly to the four cardinals who publicly challenged him last year over his most recent teachings on family life, as contained in the 2016 apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia. In a question and answer session with members of the Jesuit order in Colombia earlier this month, the text of which was […]

Tortured Communist-era priest beatified in Slovakia

A Slovak priest who died from torture and radiation poisoning after forced labour in Czechoslovakia’s uranium mines is the Catholic Church’s latest communist-era martyr to be beatified. Fr Titus Zeman, a Salesian of Don Bosco who died in 1969, was hailed during a beatification Mass Sept. 30 in Petrzalka Park in the Slovakian capital of […]

‘Middle East Christians are second-class citizens’

George’s mother is buried at Iqrit in Galilee, near the border with Lebanon. In 1948, the village of Iqrit was declared a military zone by the Israeli state and the inhabitants, all Catholics, were relocated. In 1951, a decision by the Israeli Supreme Court authorized their return. However, the army ignored the decision and completely destroyed the village, […]