Europe: The Progressivist Schism Grows Less and Less Latent

On March 23, 2012, the Swiss newspaper Le Temps published a study penned by journalist Patricia Briel on the demands of Catholic progressivists.  After Austria, Germany, Ireland and Great Britain, the “progressivist revolt” has won over Belgium, she points out, recalling that last fall, a priest from Courtrai launched a manifesto entitled “Believers Speak Out”, [...]

Switzerland: Moving Towards Adoption by Homosexual Couples?

On March 14, 2012, the Council of States, the high chamber of the Federal Assembly, granted homosexual couples the right to adopt children, by a 21 to 19 vote.  The senators accepted a motion from the Commission of Judicial Affairs that reasserted the demands of a petition from homosexual organizations.
Several democratic-Christian senators rose up against [...]

Communiqué from the Vatican, the open letter to Msgr. Bux and comments from journalists

On the morning of Friday, March 16, Cardinal William Levada, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, – assisted by Archbishop Luis Francisco Ladaria, Secretary of the Congregation, and Monsignor Guido Pozzo, Secretary of the Ecclesia Dei Commission, received Bishop Bernard Fellay, Superior General of the Society of St. Pius X, accompanied [...]

Vatican City: www.news.va in French

After the Italian, the English and the Spanish versions, as of March 8th the www.news.va website is now available in French. It brings together on one platform all the information issued by various news organs of the Vatican: Osservatore Romano, Vatican Radio, VIS, and Fides. The Pontifical Council for Social Communications wanted this site so [...]

United States: Report on the number of American mosques

An exhaustive study entitled The American Mosque 2011 was published on February 29, 2012, by a committee of Muslim university organizations.  The investigation, conducted between February and July of 2010 by Ihsan Bagby, professor of Islamic studies at the University of Kentucky, consisted of a count of mosques, followed by interviews with their imams.  This [...]

Switzerland: fourteenth century mural open for public viewing until Easter

According to a statement from the State of Fribourg chancellery on February 21, 2012, some exceptional murals were discovered during last year’s restoration work and clean up of the altarpiece to the Nativity altar, at the left of the choir in St. Nicolas Cathedral.
St. Nicolas Cathedral has unveiled one of its finest treasures, a scene [...]

UK: The Catholic Church against gay marriage

Cardinal Keith Michael Patrick O’Brien (on the picture), Archbishop of St. Andrew and Edinburgh and President of the Bishops’ Conference of Scotland, denounced the project of the British government to legalize gay marriage. In the Sunday Telegraph dated March 4, 2012, Cardinal believes that “no government has the moral authority to dismantle the universally understood [...]

Ireland: Theft of a relic of a patron saint of Dublin

During the night between March 2nd and 3rd, someone stole the heart of the patron saint of Dublin, Laurence O’Toole, from the Christ Church Cathedral [Church of Ireland], where it had been kept for 800 years in a wooden heart-shaped reliquary secured in a small iron cage on the wall of a chapel inside the [...]

Israel: Virtual visit to the Basilica of the Holy Sepulcher

The Franciscan missionaries who serve in the Holy Land are planning a website devoted to the Basilica of the Holy Sepulcher, with new graphics and a wealth of documentation;  it will be available in four languages (Italian, Spanish, English, French) starting on March 12, 2012.  A panoramic view allows the Internet to visit the smallest [...]

Morocco: “Information” campaign about Islam from the publishers

The Moroccan government, through its Ministry of Communications, in association with the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO), will lead a European communications campaign on Islam with the goal of ending “anti-Islamic stereotypes” that tarnish Islam’s image on the European continent.
On March 1st, the online Moroccan newspaper yabiladi.com specified that the campaign will be [...]

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