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Nice Jihad: Bishop Blames Europe, Cardinal Names Islam

A Portuguese bishop is blaming European prejudices for the slaughter and beheading of three innocent Catholics by an illegal Muslim migrant in Nice’s Notre Dame Basilica. “The attack on the cathedral in Nice is not Islam’s fight against Christianity: It is the result of the prejudices of those Europeans who not only do not foster intercultural and interreligious […]

At least one killed in terror attack in Vienna

At least one person was killed and at least 15 others – including at least one police officer – were seriously injured in exchanges of gunfire in central Vienna that Austria’s interior minister descri-bed as a terror attack. One attacker was shot dead after incidents at six locations close to Seitenstettengasse street in the heart […]

Trump wins white evangelicals, Catholics split

President Donald Trump won support from about 8 in 10 white Evangelical Christian voters in his race for reelection, but Ca-tholic voters split almost evenly between him and Democratic opponent Joe Biden, according to AP Vote Cast. Trump’s strong hold on white evangelical voters illustrates the GOP’s enduring success with a bloc of religious conservatives […]

‘Hard times’ ahead for Church in Poland after cardinal sanctioned by Vatican

In an unprecedented move for the Polish Church, the Vatican banned a retired cardinal from public ministry, public appearances, and the use of the bishop’s insignia. Cardinal Henryk Gulbinowicz of Wroclaw also cannot be buried in the archdiocesan cathedral after his death. The disciplinary measures are a historic and symbolic moment for the Church in […]

Priest Suspended for Blasting ‘Heretic’ Pope

An Italian priest who called out Pope Francis as “mediocre” and a “heretic in need of conver-sion” in his All Saints Day sermon has been suspended by his bishop. Father Fabio Ragusa, assistant priest in the parish Borgio Verezzi, Savona, denounced the pontiff for “uttering truly senseless statements” endorsing homosexual civil unions and stressed that […]

Pope Francis vows to end sexual abuse after McCarrick report

Pope Francis pledged November 11 to rid the Catholic Church of sexual abuse and offered prayers to victims of former Cardinal Theodore Mc-Carrick, a day after the Vatican released a detailed report into the decades-long church cover-up of his sexual misconduct. The Vatican report blamed a host of bishops, cardinals and popes for downplaying and […]

Cardinal Dziwisz defends himself in wake of McCarrick report

While the world is still digesting the McCarrick report, released by the Vatican on November 10, the blame game has begun in Poland, St John Paul II’s homeland. One of the report’s few living protagonists is Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, John Paul’s longtime personal secretary, who was mentioned 45 times in the document. But the storm […]

Opposition parties demand release of Jesuit priest, activists

Opposition leaders on October 21 expressed solidarity human rights activists such as Jesuit Father Stan Swamy and lawyers arrested under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, and demanded the repeal of the stringent law. Addressing a webinar organized by the People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), they urged the public to break their silence on the […]