Church bells started ringing again for the first time in two years in the newly liberated Iraqi town of Bartella. Iraqi forces have been gaining ground against ISIS recently, particularly in a push to retake the major city of Mosul. Mosul, which some estimate to have a population of around...
Well at least the church and artist had good intentions! Vandals broke off and stole the head of the Baby Jesus from a statue at a Catholic church in Sudbury, Ontario in Canada last year. Replacing the whole statue would have cost around 10,000 Canadian dollars, so for months...
Elizabeth Anscombe is one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century. A student of Ludwig Wittgenstein, she eventually researched and taught at Oxford for 24 years. She was also a devout convert to Catholicism, taking lots of heat for defending the Church’s most controversial teachings. Her daughter,...
One of the presidential candidates “diverts from some aspects of the Church’s teaching and the other… has made statements vilifying immigrants and religious minorities,” a journalist from New York Times Magazine said to Pope Francis on his flight back to Rome from Azerbaijan earlier this month. “How would you...
Adults whose parents divorced when they were children are less likely to practice any religion, a new study finds. The same study also found that children whose parents practice different religions are also more likely to abandon religion altogether. In the last 40 years, as divorce rates rose, the percentage...
Pope Francis was “saddened” to hear of two lesbian nuns leaving religious life and getting “married” in Italy, according to Vatican Undersecretary of State Archbishop Angelo Becciu on Twitter. The former nuns went only by their first names, Federica and Isabel, in an article featuring their relationship in the Italian...
