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Raising banner, protesters raise questions about ‘Doctrine of Discovery’

In a brief protest at a papal Mass in Canada, Indigenous women unfurled a banner that said, “Rescind the Doctrine.” The protest July 28 was a momentary but graphic reminder of how, when representatives of Canada’s First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities met Pope Francis at the Vatican in March and April, they asked him […]

Religious orders call for international intervention in Haiti

Religious orders working in Haiti have called on the inter-national community to directly intervene to address the reign of terror of armed gangs they described as “diabolical, frightening and unacceptable.” The same gangs are responsible for nearly four kidnappings a day in 2022 and violence that killed more than 200 and forced 3,000 to flee […]

Nigerian cardinal says it’s not just Christians paying price of country’s violence

According to the former top Catholic official of Nigeria’s capital city, the violence in the country is “getting out of hand.” It’s not only Christians paying the price, he said. None of the country’s 200 million people are safe. “There is great insecurity throughout the country, people are being killed every day; bandits and terrorists […]

Pope Francis on birth control: Can the teaching of the Church on contraception change?

Can the Church’s teaching on birth control change? During Pope Francis’ return flight from Canada, a journalist asked him about the possibility of a development in the Church’s teaching on contraception. “This is very timely. But know that dog-ma, morality, is always in a path of development, but development in the same direct-ion,” Pope Francis […]

Lambeth Conference’s opening Sunday Eucharist stresses service, hospitality

Episcopal and Anglican bishops and their spouses filled Canterbury Cathedral on July 31 for the opening Sunday Eucharist of the Lambeth Conference. The service spanned several hours and was marked by prayer and pageantry in a worship space with more than 1,400 years of history that was described in a welcoming message as “the heart […]

Cardinal Müller: ‘The German Synodal Way was over before it even started’

Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, prefect emeritus of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, has sharply criticized the Synodal Way in Germany. In an interview, the 74-year-old cardinal said that the Synodal Way, declared a “reform process” by its initiators, is “over” and was on an “anti-Catholic, wrong track.” The Holy See issued a […]

Baby Blues: How to Face the Church’s Growing Fertility Crisis

Data from the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) from 1982 to 2019, along with data from four waves of the Demographic Intelligence Family Survey (DIFS) from 2020 to 2022, point to a widening gap in fertility rates between more religious and less religious Americans. In recent years, the fertility gap by religion has widened […]

Ordinary Indians pay price for Gandhian hypocrisy

Hypocrisy has been the name of the game when it comes to alcohol in India, particularly in Gujarat, the home state of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the father of the Indian nation, Mahatma Gandhi. Any number of human deaths will not stop politicians and even the state’s denizens from swearing by the Gandhian way […]