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September 2018

September 03, 2018

Cardinal Marx, Clearer Than Ever: “Nationalism Is Not Catholic”

"Patriotism is good, but nationalism is not Catholic". The president of the German Bishops' Conference,...

August 2018

August 27, 2018

Church to Salvini: “You Can’t Do Politics on the Backs of the Poor”

The latest chapter in the tumultuous relationship between the Italian Catholic Church and the xenophobic...

August 06, 2018

Swiss Bishop: I Don’t Believe in “God of Yore”

Three days after the Pope raised the ire of conservatives by reversing the centuries-old teaching...

July 2018

July 16, 2018

Spanish Bishops Warn Education Reform Will Bring “Dictatorship”

Spain's Catholic bishops are warning of a return to a "totalitarian dictatorship" after the country's...

June 2018

June 28, 2018

Austrian Bishops Slam Move to Extend Working Hours

The Austrian Bishops' Conference has blasted proposed changes to the country's Working Hours Act as...

June 25, 2018

On Interfaith Dialog, Pope Shifts from Theological to Political

The Pope called Saturday 23rd for a "healthy pluralism" among the religions in the world,...

June 21, 2018

Albanian Religious Leaders Knock on EU Door for Country

In 2014 Pope Francis hailed the "climate of respect and mutual trust" between the different...

June 18, 2018

Irish Bishops Take Two Steps Forward for Life, One Step Back

After the people of Ireland voted last month to legalize abortion, the Irish bishops have...

June 14, 2018

Vatican Flounders Over Papal Support for Lula da Silva

News broke Tuesday 12th that Pope Francis had sent a rosary and a card to...

June 07, 2018

European Christians Prouder of Their Nationality Than of Their Religion

To continue with the series we started on Monday, more today on the political implications...

June 04, 2018

European Christians Overwhelmingly Pro-Abortion, Pro-Gay Marriage

According to a major new Pew Research Center study of 24,000 adults from 15 countries,...

May 2018

May 28, 2018

Chaos in Bavaria Over Law Mandating Crosses in Public Buildings

Chaos reigns in the German state of Bavaria just days before a controversial new law...

May 24, 2018

New Bulgarian Religion Funding Law “Sad Reminder of Communist Past”

The leaders of Bulgaria's three biggest political parties have drafted a bill on religious affairs...

May 21, 2018

Proxy Battle of Catalonian Independence Leads to Church “Rebellion”

The war for Catalonian independence continues to take a heavy toll on the Churches in...

April 2018

April 30, 2018

Austrian, Croat Churches At War Over “Europe’s Largest Fascist Meeting”

The Catholic Church in the south Austrian state of Carinthia has distanced itself "with vigor...

April 26, 2018

Czech Bishops Blackmail City Council Over “Blasphemous” Play

October this year marks the 100th anniversary of the independence of the Czech Republic from...

April 23, 2018

French, Spanish Bishops Celebrate End of Terrorist Group ETA

The news that the Basque separatist group ETA is to dissolve after a sixty-year reign...

April 16, 2018

Vatican Worried about ‘Killer Robots’

Against the background of Trump's beating war drums in Syria, the Vatican has warned against...

April 10, 2018

Macron Makes Historic Overture to French Catholics

In an historic gesture that promises to alter the course of the venerable French tradition...

April 09, 2018

Politician Panned For Rehashing “Christian Roots of Europe” Argument

Yet another debate on the "Christian identity" of Europe has broken out after the leader...

March 2018

March 19, 2018

Can the Church Compromise on “Gender Theory”?

The Vatican is currently preparing two documents on so-called "gender theory", revealed the secretary of...

March 15, 2018

German Bishop “Surprised and Terrified” by Far-Right Hatred

"Xenophobia, racism and naked hatred are not legitimate expressions of opinion, but attacks on the...

March 12, 2018

Austrian Church Denounces Kurz’s “Dismantling of Welfare State”

What did Pope Francis and Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz talk about in their audience last...

March 01, 2018

Italian Church Scrambles to Stop Racist Salvini

Swift and harsh have been the Catholic reactions to the spectacle of Matteo Salvini, head...

February 2018

February 19, 2018

Catalan Bishops Reaffirm “Moral Legitimacy” of Independence Push

In the midst of the political paralysis brought on by the Spanish central government's ongoing...

January 2018

January 22, 2018

‘La Civiltà Cattolica’ Demolishes the “Benedict Option”

Further evidence that the highest circles of the Church disapprove strongly of the "Benedict option",...

January 04, 2018

‘The Economist’ and the Left-Right Divide in the European Church

An interesting claim last week by The Economist: "Clergy are colliding with Christian soldiers across...

November 2017

November 27, 2017

Outrage in the Spanish Church Over the Imprisonment in Málaga of Nearly 500 Refugees

"Identifying immigrants and refugees with criminals is enormously injust". This Monday noon that of the...

November 02, 2017

The Church Mustn’t Tolerate Political Prisoners in Catalonia

Breaking news this Thursday afternoon from Catalonia as a Spanish High Court judge orders the Catalonian deputy...

October 2017

October 30, 2017

Catalonian Independence: “Simplistic” Attitudes on What is Spanish Must Change

Today on the blog we return to Spain, where we'll look at some Church reactions...