One striking thing about modern Western societies is how quickly bioethical practices that would once have been shocking quickly become un-remarkable. It happened with abortion, it happened with embryo selection, and now it is happening with euthanasia. It emerged...
A major new study has found that more than three-quarters of the leaders of religious orders of priests, brothers and sisters in the U.S. believe it is “theoretically possible” to ordain women as deacons in the Catholic Church. Nearly as many, according to the...
A second church has been demolished by authorities in China’s Jinan province — and a third church is expected to suffer the same fate soon. After Liangwang Catholic Church was demolished on July 17, local Catholics prayed at the site and protested the unreasonable...
The now retired Archbishop Oswald Gomis of Colombo faced huge challenges during the takeover of Sri Lanka’s Catholic-run schools by the state in the 1960s. The government policy was “certainly not a good thing” and was intended to hit Catholics, said the 85-year-old...
President Ram Nath Kovind on August 9 lavished praise on the Christian community in Kerala, saying it was a symbol of India’s non-negotiable commit-ment to diversity and pluralism. Inaugurating the centenary celebrations of St Thomas College, Kovind said the...
