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 [...]

France: A Parish Priest Refuses a Voodoo Exposition in His Church

Fr. Philippe Roche, pastor of St. Tugdual Cathedral in Tréguier (Côtes-d’Armor in Brittany), was able to preserve St. Anthony’s Chapel in Pommerit-Jaudy from an exposition in honor of Voodoo primitive art.  Organized by the city council and sponsored by Unesco, this exposition was supposed to be in place from March 2 to April 6, 2012.  [...]

Spain: 70.2% of Students Take Religious Instruction

On March 1, 2012, the Bishops’ Conference of Spain’s Commission for the teaching of catechism (CEE) published an annual report on the number of students who receive a Catholic religious and moral formation at school. They count a total of 4,696,247 students in non-university establishments.
Former socialist Prime Minister José Luis Zapatero’s government abolished obligatory [...]

Bosnia and Herzegovina: A Dizzying Decrease of Catholics

Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Secretary of State for the Holy See, addressed a letter in the name of Benedict XVI to the members of the Bishops’ Conferences of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia, gathered for a meeting on January 30-31 in Sarajevo (capitol of Bosnia); the Osservatore Romano published a part of this letter on February 28, 2012.  [...]

Germany: Bishop Williamson’s conviction quashed

On February 22, 2012, on the grounds of a procedural error, the German courts revoked the conviction of Bishop Richard Williamson for denial of the Holocaust.
The High Court of Regensburg on July 11, 2011fined Bishop Williamson a reduced on-appeal amount of 6,500 euros for having denied the existence of gas chambers. His comments made in [...]

United Kingdom: A Bishop Speaks Out Against Homosexual Marriage

Bishop Mark Davies, Catholic Bishop of Shrewsbury, has called upon the United Kingdom’s Christian deputies to oppose the bill of David Cameron’s government to legalize homosexual marriage, reports the February 13 edition of the Daily Telegraph.
In his homily delivered on February 11, at St. Wilfrid Church in Northwhich (northern England), for the diocese’s annual celebration [...]

France: A cartoonist in court for attacking the Pope

French political cartoonist Plantu will soon appear in court following a complaint filed by the General Alliance Against Racism and Respect for French and Christian Identity (AGRIF) regarding the publication of a drawing depicting Pope Benedict XVI. Published March 22, 2010 on the cartoonist’s site, then republished on April 3rd of that year by Le [...]

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