Columban missionary Fr Liam O’Callaghan describes an indifference to religious extremism in some sections of Pakistani society, writes Jason Osborne January 30 this year saw another deadly blast in Pakistan, this time at a mosque located inside a high-security compound that includes police headquarters and a counterterrorism department. The attack’s final toll saw 101 dead and hundreds more wounded.…
In the case known as “Coup I,” Bolivia’s attorney general’s office has requested that 10 bishops testify regarding their role in the alleged 2019 coup d’état that led to the resignation of President Evo Morales. Archbishop Percy Galván of La Paz, the nation’s capital, charged that the move is an attempt to “intimidate us,” and…
Irish convents formed the “backbone of Irish Catholic society” for centuries, but they have been largely ignored, an Irish historian has said. Convents and the women religious in them were “hugely significant” to the development of the Church and Irish State, Dr Gillian O’Brien told The Irish Catholic. Dr O’Brien is leading a project to…
by Paul Senz One of the challenges we Catholics face is the way in which our liturgical calendar almost becomes like white noise in the background. There is such consistency in our liturgical year that we often don’t give much thought to the changing of the seasons, the feasts, the memorials, the solemnities, as they…
The Church in Honduras faces many challenges, Bishop Michael Lenihan OFM tells Ruadhán Jones It came as quite a shock to Limerick-born Bishop Michael Lenihan OFM when he got a call from the papal nuncio telling him he would be Honduras’ newest archbishop. “It came out of the blue completely,” he tells me over the…
Dublin’s RDS was packed for the Divine Mercy Conference that took place over the weekend after a two-year hiatus due to Covid-19. At the closing Mass, Archbishop of Dublin Dermot Farrell thanked all those who attended and encouraged them to resist the temptation facilitated by social media to “speak ill of another”. “We live in…
A History of Alsace 1871 – 1939 by Liam Murphy (Kingdom Books 2023). Alsace and Lorraine have been described by historians as “the shuttlecock of Europe”. Both regions passed between Germany and France on five occasions. Alsace is located in eastern France on the west bank of the upper Rhine and borders Switzerland and Germany.…
Missionary injured by land mine has foot amputated An Italian-born Catholic priest has undergone numerous gruelling surgeries, eventually losing his foot, after he sustained injuries in a land mine explosion in the Central African Republic (CAR). The Catholic pontifical and charity foundation Aid to the Church in Need International (ACN) reported that Fr Norberto Pozzi,…
by Kate Scanlon The FBI is facing scrutiny after a leaked memo suggested some “radical traditionalist” Catholics pose threats of racial or ethnically motivated violence. The memo has since been retracted by the bureau, a spokesperson told OSV News. Robert A. Destro, a professor of law at The Catholic University of America’s Columbus School of…
by Junno Arocho Esteves A series of deadly raids by Israeli authorities in the West Bank and attacks on Jewish civilians in the first month of the new year have made the goal of a lasting peace in the Holy Land seemingly unattainable. The January 26 raid in the West Bank city of Jenin, which…
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