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Monthly Archives: July 2014
Why bishops oppose Falconer’s assisted suicide bill
It has certainly not helped the case against assisted suicide that two prominent retired Anglican clergymen, Lord Carey and Desmond Tutu, have both come out in favour ahead of Friday’s second reading of Lord Falconer’s Assisted Dying Bill. Their interventions have … Continue reading
Catholic bishops respond to Anglican decision to ordain women as bishops
The following statement was issued today on behalf of the Conference of Catholic bishops of England and Wales (CBCEW) by the chairman of its Department for Dialogue and Unity, Archbishop Bernard Longley of Birmingham. The Catholic Church remains fully committed to its … Continue reading
Did Francis really say that 2% of priests are paedophiles?
La Reppublica on Sunday published another ‘interview’ with Pope Francis by its 90-year-old atheist founder, Eugenio Scalfari, which has set the news media humming with three apparently remarkable claims: that one in 50 priests — that would make 8,000 members of the … Continue reading
Vatican reform leaps ahead with overhaul of bank and media
A new president of the so-called Vatican Bank, the IOR, and the appointment of Christopher Lord Patten, chancellor of Oxford University, to head a new committee overseeing reforms to media, were among the announcements made yesterday by Cardinal George Pell, prefect of the … Continue reading
Pope Francis tells abuse survivors in Santa Marta: Before God and his people I express my sorrow for the sins and grave crimes of clerical sexual abuse committed against you. And I humbly ask forgiveness.
In a searing, penitential and fiercely resolute homily this morning in the Domus Santa Marta, the Pope told six abuse survivors who had come to meet him that they represented a “miracle of hope, which prevails against the deepest darkness”. The survivors … Continue reading
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