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Tuesday, February 9, 2010 |
Cardinal proposes shared ecumenical catechism
Cardinal Walter Kasper has proposed a shared "ecumenical catechism" for Catholics, Anglicans, Lutherans, Methodists and members of Reformed churches, during opening remarks to participants at an international ecumenical symposium on Monday. Read More ...
Posted: Monday, February 8, 2010 10:44 pm |
Irish Bishops in second meeting with abuse survivors
Irish Bishops held a second meeting with survivors of institutional abuse in Maynooth on Monday. Mr Tom Hayes of the Alliance Support Group, Mr John Kelly and Mr Patrick Walsh of Irish SOCA, Mr Michael O'Brien of Right to Peace, Mr Michael Walsh of Right of Place met with Bishop Colm O'Reilly, Bishop of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise, Read More ...
Posted: Monday, February 8, 2010 10:18 pm |
World Churches welcome G7 relief of Haiti's debt
The World Council of Churches (WCC) has welcomed the initiative by the seven most industrialized nations (G7), which have pledged to write off Haiti's debts with them. In a letter from the WCC general secretary, the Rev Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, the WCC also asked for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and other international financial institutions to follow the G7 example Read More ...
Posted: Monday, February 8, 2010 9:02 pm |
Deptford: Memorial Mass for Africa's Oldest Catholic Bishop
The last day of January was a day Ijebu Catholics, fellow Nigerians and other nationalities gathered in remembrance of the oldest Catholic Bishop of Nigeria; Most Revd Anthony Saliu Sanusi. The service was however not in Nigeria but in the United Kingdom at Our Lady of the Assumption in Deptford, south London. Read More ...
Fr Gregory-Mario Verissimo - Posted: Monday, February 8, 2010 8:44 pm |
The Equality Bill and the Pope
The Pope has aroused some controversy to say the least, over his comments about British Equality legislation. He has been accused of interfering in internal British Politics. However in view of the fact that the British Government lectures other countries on their attitudes to Gay Rights clearly we cannot complain about "foreign" interference in our country. Read More ...
Posted: Monday, February 8, 2010 7:56 pm |
Satan comes to Yorkshire
Hull has a date with the Devil in a very few days. 'The fiend of Hell', aka Titivillus, is the arch-villain of the celebrated, but rarely performed, medieval morality play Mankind which will be staged at Hull University’s Gulbenkian Theatre this week. Read More ...
Posted: Monday, February 8, 2010 7:17 pm |
Candlelight images from Gaza
Sometimes a picture is more powerful than a thousand words. Photographer Lawrence Cain has sent us the following beautiful gallery of images of Palestinian children in Gaza. In his caption, Lawrence says: " this 'video' should in no way be considered, or promote, an attack on a particular people or culture .." Read More ...
Posted: Monday, February 8, 2010 12:13 am |
Ash Wednesday on Canary Wharf
Archbishop Vincent Nichols will be visiting Canary Wharf in London's Docklands next week, to celebrate the Ash Wednesday Mass. Barclays have once again given permission for the service to be held at their headquarters located at One Churchill Place. Read More ...
Posted: Sunday, February 7, 2010 11:59 pm |
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Independent Catholic News now has free classified sections, advertising jobs, accommodation, (both commercial and private), holidays, pilgrimages, retreats, business and other services. This section is updated daily. Read More ...
Posted: Sunday, February 7, 2010 11:07 pm |
Treasures salvaged from fire at Irish cathedral
More than 200 priceless objects have been recovered from the Christmas Day fire in St Mel's Cathedral in Longford, in the west of Ireland, Bishop Colm O'Reilly, revealed on Saturday. Speaking at the Vigil Mass in the Temperance Hall, Longford, the Bishop of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise, the Bishop said: Read More ...
Posted: Sunday, February 7, 2010 10:52 pm |
Sunday Reflection with Fr Terry Tastard - 7 February 2010
What would it be like to have an overwhelming experience of the presence of God? Most Christians must have wondered about this. There are times when we long for God to show himself, for a dramatic revelation which would convince others and for that matter convince ourselves. Life, we think, would be so much easier. But would it? Read More ...
Posted: Sunday, February 7, 2010 12:15 am |
President Obama: "I'm praying a lot these days"
US President Barack Obama called for civility in the public square, and encouraged people to pray, during his address at the National Prayer Breakfast attended by 3,000 in the ballroom of the Washington Hilton on Thursday. “For while prayer can buck us up when we are down, keep us calm in a storm; while prayer can stiffen our spines to surmount an obstacle – and I assure you I’m praying a lot these days -- prayer can also do something else,” Read More ...
Dan Bergin - Posted: Saturday, February 6, 2010 12:47 am |
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Posted: Friday, February 5, 2010 7:05 pm |
Irish Cardinal welcomes Devolution agreement
Cardinal Seán Brady, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, has issued the following statement in response to the announcement of an agreement on the Devolution of Policing and Justice Powers to the Northern Ireland Assembly. Read More ...
Posted: Friday, February 5, 2010 2:58 pm |
Philippines: "authorities ignore child sex trade"
It is no easy task to rescue the child victims of trafficking for commercial sexual exploitation in the Philippines. The authorities deny it even it exists. "The problem has been solved", they say, "it does not exist now". Journalists and human rights workers are not welcome in the office of Mayors that host sex industries in their communities Read More ...
Fr Shay Cullen - Posted: Friday, February 5, 2010 10:37 am |
US Bishop calls for world free of nuclear threat
Archbishop Edwin O’Brien of Baltimore said humanity must “build a future free of the nuclear threat” in remarks on 3 February at the Global Zero Summit in Paris. The two-day conference brings together 200 international political, military, business and faith leaders for strategy talks on the phased elimination of all nuclear weapons. Read More ...
Posted: Friday, February 5, 2010 12:36 am |
Salvation in Christ is the foundation of human justice
Pope Benedict's Message for Lent 2010 was issued by the Vatican yesterday. Hans-Gert Poettering, former president of the European Parliament and current president of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, introduced the Message at a press conference. The theme this year is: "The justice of God has been manifested through faith in Jesus Christ". Read More ...
Posted: Friday, February 5, 2010 12:21 am |
India - navy blockades island church
For the seventh year running, the Indian navy has denied pilgrims access to an historic church on the island of Anjediva near Goa. On Tuesday, more than 300 Catholics and Hindus from Goa and neighboring Karnataka state tried to visit the church to celebrate the feast of Our Lady of Springs. Read More ...
Posted: Thursday, February 4, 2010 11:41 pm |
Free download: children's activity book on St Vincent de Paul
A beautiful new activity book for children has just been published by the Daughters of Charity in Australia. The Life of St Vincent-de-Paul Activity Book has a story, puzzles, quiz, brain teasers, games, drama and pictures to colour, with formats for children in Kindergarten to Year 6. Read More ...
Posted: Thursday, February 4, 2010 10:38 pm |
ADVERTISEMENT: Latin Mass Society seeks Full-Time General Manager
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Posted: Thursday, February 4, 2010 6:37 pm |
Rome: Bishops follow in steps of Cardinal John Henry Newman
The Bishops of England and Wales, currently on their ad limina visit to Rome, visited two places connected ot the life of Cardinal Newman yesterday: the Chapel of the Three Kings, where he was ordained, and the chapel inside Missio headquarters, where he celebrated his first Mass. Read More ...
Posted: Thursday, February 4, 2010 6:19 pm |
Patients in 'vegetative state' able to communicate
Ethical questions have been raised by a groundbreaking new study which has discovered that some patients who are completely paralysed, are able to respond to communication and even answer questions. Over three years, scientists from Britain and Belgium studied 23 patients diagnosed as being in a vegetative state, using a called functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) which detects large flows of blood to different regions of the brain. Read More ...
Claire Bergin - Posted: Wednesday, February 3, 2010 11:38 pm |
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