Columban missionaries are urging young people to join in global action on climate change through its young journalists’ competition. The call links in to the COP24 climate conference in Poland which the Columbans hope “will result in meaningful policy and action that brings the urgent change needed to set the world on a path to […]
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CAFOD volunteers who travelled to COP24 on a pilgrimage with the Catholic aid agency took part in a march through the streets of Katowice with at least a thousand other young Catholics drawn from around the world to raise awareness of the need for action on climate change. The delegation’s main call was for the […]
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The Catholic Church has welcomed a shopping centre’s decision to overturn its self-imposed ban on displaying a nativity scene. Thistles Shopping Centre in Stirling backtracked on its initial decision after a group of protestors staged a living nativity in the premises and spoke to Christmas shoppers about Thistles’ controversial ruling. Thistles was recently branded “Grinch-like” […]
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Engelbert Humperdinck has revealed that he relies on prayer to support his wife in her battle with Alzheimer’s disease. The performer, known for his deep Roman Catholic faith, credits prayer for preventing his wife Patricia’s condition from worsening. “The reason I went public with her condition is because I do have great faith and I […]
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More than 24,000 people in Britain are facing Christmas sleeping rough, in tents or on public transport, according to new research. This number has increased massively over the last five years, according to the national homelessness charity Crisis, which commissioned the study from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. The research shows 12,300 people are currently sleeping […]
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Cardinal Vincent Nichols has told an inquiry into child abuse of his shock at learning that a vicar general of his former archdiocese tried to help two paedophile priests escape to the United States. The Independent Inquiry into Child Sex Abuse revealed for the first time that Mgr Daniel Leonard, a former vicar general of […]
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A London Mayor who was once homeless herself has applauded a charity’s new initiative to end homelessness. A reception named ‘A Place to Call Home’ drew attention to the 320,000 people experiencing homelessness in England, and specifically the local crisis in the London Borough of Newham, where one in every 24 people do not have […]
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The case for William Shakespeare being a Catholic sympathiser who left political messages in his work has been strengthened after new research found evidence of coded references in one of his most famous works. Although the Elizabethan playwright is often regarded as being largely apolitical, Clare Asquith, the Countess of Oxford and Asquith, has now […]
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Thousands of people have taken part in a mass sleepout across four Scottish cities in one night in order to give a voice to the voiceless and raise funds for the homeless. The Sleep in the Park event, arranged by social enterprise Social Bite, took place last weekend in Aberdeen, Dundee, Glasgow and Edinburgh and […]
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The Primate of All-Ireland has “warmly welcomed” Pope Francis’ appointment of Mgr Larry Duffy as the new Bishop of Clogher. Since 2013, Bishop-elect Duffy has been parish priest of Carrickmacross, Co Monaghan. He has served in various parishes of the Diocese of Clogher including Enniskillen, Castleblayney, Monaghan & Rackwallace, Ederney, Clones and Carrickmacross. In addition, […]
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