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Turkey Converts Chora Church Into Mosque

Turkey has issued a presidential decree ordering the conversion of the nation’s best-known Byzantine monastic church into a mosque. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan published the executive order sealing the fate of the Church of the Holy Saviour in Chora, Istanbul, a month after Turkey’s top court delivered a unanimous verdict declaring the basilica of Hagia […]

Five faith facts about Kamala Harris

Few, if any, vice presidential candidates have had as much exposure to the world’s religions as Kamala Harris, the 55-year-old senator from California whom Joe Biden just picked as his running mate. Harris’ ethnic, racial and cultural biography represents a slice of the U.S. population that is becoming ascendant but that has never been represented […]

German bishops to accept Vatican offer of ‘clarifying discussion’ on parish instruction

The German Bishops’ Conference has said it will accept the Vatican’s invitation to discuss the new instruction on parishes at a meeting in Rome, suggesting that it will be accompanied by laymen representing the “Synodal Process” under way in Germany. At the conclusion of their meeting in the Bavarian town of Würzburg on August 24, […]

In openly criticizing Brazil’s president, 152 bishops spur anger, controversy

A letter signed by 152 Brazilian Catholic bishops harshly criticizing President Jair Bolsonaro’s administration and his unsuccessful handling of the COVID-19 pandemic has been spurring intense controversy among the country’s Catholics since its release in late July. As various groups expressed their support or disapproval of the document, backed by about a third of the […]

This Secret Society of Priests Still Won’t Recognize Pope Francis

Since the election upon Benedict’s retirement of Jorge Bergoglio, now Pope Francis, Leatherby has shunned the new pontiff and continued to only refer to Benedict as the church’s true leader in mass. After several warnings, he was charged with schism, defrocked and excommunicated from the Catholic Church. “I continue to regard Benedict as retaining the […]

‘’Unbaptised’ US Catholic priest ordained again

Detroit archdiocese ordained a Catholic priest for a second time on Aug. 17 after learning that his infant baptism was void, making his ordination invalid. Father Matthew Hood, ordained in 2017, has been working in the diocese for the past three years, just like any other Catholic priest. However, his priestly ordination was found invalid as his Catholic […]

Pope Francis: Make coronavirus vaccine available to all

A potential coronavirus vaccine should be made available to all, Pope Francis said at the general audience Aug. 19. “It would be sad if, for the vaccine for COVID-19, priority were to be given to the richest! It would be sad if this vaccine were to become the property of this nation or another, rather […]

Church selling the Eucharist ‘short’ says professor

The Catholic Church is selling “the Eucharist” and people short and is making a mistake by turning Mass into a YouTube experience, according to a UK theologian. Thomas O’Loughlin, emeritus professor of Historical Theology at the University of Nottingham and Director of Studia Traditionis Theologiae, said: “There are some things Zoom and YouTube just won’t […]