Lucia Kennedy wants to help thousands of children across the world achieve their dreams. The Christchurch 12-year-old has enlisted the help of some well-known New Zealanders, written a book, created a website, commissioned a song, and set up a mentoring programme to support her cause. The Take a Chance project was developed by Lucia after Read more
The Vatican on October 19 sent a message to Hindu leaders asking them to resist “hateful propaganda” against Christians and allowing Christians to practice their faith in peace. A principal cause of conflict is the conversion to Christianity of Dalits or “untouchables.” The aggression against Christians stretches across much of India, from the eastern state Read more
After the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Doctrine had delivered its criticism of Quest for the Living God: Mapping Frontiers in the Theology of God by St. Joseph Sr. Elizabeth Johnson, theologians and boards of theological societies in the United States contested the content of the criticism and protested the manner of its formulation (NCR, Read more
In an interview with the Catholic Herald, Ania Golędzinowska, a model and tv presenter and the girlfriend of Paolo Enrico Beretta, the nephew of the Italian prime minister, reveals why she has moved to Medjugorje to lead a prayerful life. She explained that she had been invited there by a friend who had paid for Read more
Eve reputedly led Adam into temptation with an apple. Now an enterprising Irish Catholic priest has designed an Apple app designed at leading men into the priesthood. Fr Paddy Rushe’s new “Vocations” app is billed as the first of its kind in the world and is available to download free from the Apple iPhone app Read more
John Waters writes in the ‘Irish Times’: – I had an odd feeling last Friday morning, listening to an RTÉ apology broadcast on Morning Ireland. We don’t think of published apologies as journalism, but this went to the heart of matters the Irish media refuses point-blank to ventilate. Something was being “reported” that generally remains Read more
Thousands of people spanning all ages and races honoured the legacy of the nation’s foremost civil rights leader during a formal dedication of the new Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington. Aretha Franklin, poet Nikki Giovanni and President Barack Obama were among those who attended the more than four-hour ceremony. King’s children and other Read more
Worried about its dwindling numbers, the Roman Catholic church in southern India is exhorting its flock to have more children, with some parishes offering free schooling, medical care and even cash bonuses for large families, church officials have said. The strategy comes as India’s population tops 1.2 billion, making it the second most populous country Read more
The Rev. Mark Lewis awoke early on the last morning of his life as an Anglican priest and dressed in a suit and tie instead of his usual priestly regalia. That’s different, he thought, for the first of many times on a day when so much was different for St. Luke’s, the small Episcopal church Read more
Many of China’s churches are full of worshippers every Sunday. The number of Christians are multiplying, although statistics, official and unofficial, fail to give a reliable image of what seems to be a phenomenon of extraordinary proportions. So much so that one wonders, as did a recent survey by the BBC, whether this wave of Read more