English and Welsh bishops ‘stand in solidarity’ with US in challenging ‘evil of racism’ and ‘brutal killing’ of George Floyd

The Catholic bishops of England and Wales have expressed their “solidarity” with those in the United States who “challenge the evil of racism” and the “brutal killing” of George Floyd. In the days since the killing of Mr Floyd, a 46-year-old unarmed black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis on 25th May, hundreds... Read More

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November 6, 2019

Co Down girl who spent 90 years touching countless lives in the USA dies, aged 111

Mercy Sister Mary Aidan Donaldson worked in education for almost 50 years – but that wasn’t nearly half her life story. The eldest Sister of Mercy in the world and believed to be the oldest living religious of any order, died on 25th October at the age of 111 at the Convent of Mercy retirement... Read More

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October 29, 2019

Pope’s stargazer visits Scotland

The pope’s stargazer is set to attend a series of events in Scotland, aimed at exploring the evidence for God’s existence. Br Guy Consolmagno an American research astronomer and director of the Vatican Observatory was due to arrive in Scotland today after he accepted an invitation to attend a series of events organised by the... Read More

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August 13, 2019

US bishops condemn immigration raids

Mississippi’s Catholic bishops have issued a statement with Episcopalian, Methodist and Evangelical Lutheran bishops condemning immigration raids. The raids, carried out by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers on 7 August, have left many children without parents. In one of the biggest operations of its kind in over a decade, workers were targeted at seven... Read More

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May 16, 2019

Pro-life leaders applaud passage of abortion bill in Alabama

By passing a bill to ban abortion in nearly all circumstances, the Alabama Legislature has recognised that abortion is “the extinguishing of a unique human life,” said the president and CEO of Americans United for Life. “From conception to natural death, every single human life deserves to be protected by law. The violence of abortion... Read More

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September 10, 2018

Letter confirms Vatican officials knew of McCarrick allegations in 2000

A top official from the Vatican Secretariat of State acknowledged allegations made by a New York priest in 2000 concerning Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick, according to a letter obtained by Catholic News Service. Father Boniface Ramsey, pastor of St Joseph’s Church Yorkville in New York City, told CNS last Friday that he received the letter... Read More

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March 29, 2018

To honour Rev. King, ‘deepen’ commitment to work for justice, US bishops urge

Fifty years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, ‘we need to ask ourselves if we are doing all we can to build the culture of love, respect and peace to which the Gospel calls us,’ the US bishops’ Administrative Committee said on 28th March. On 4th April 1968, James Earl Ray gunned down... Read More

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March 15, 2018

Trump looks at prototypes for border wall that bishop calls ‘grotesque’

On the day that marked the fifth anniversary of the election of a pope who has called on others to “build bridges, not walls,” the president of the United States toured Southern California to look at prototypes for a wall he promised to build on the border with Mexico. “The state of California is begging... Read More

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