The Federal Constitutional Court of Pakistan will review a previous ruling that allowed a 13-year-old Christian girl, who was forced into child marriage and religious conversion, to stay with her …
Islamabad – No one has been held responsible. The 2014 murder of a Christian couple in Pakistan’s Punjab Province will remain unpunished after the country’s Supreme Court brought the case …
Juba – South Sudan is the world’s youngest State. It is also one of the most troubled.These days mark the fifteenth anniversary of its independence, achieved in 2011 following a …
I recently opened a piece of mail and unfolded a masterpiece of calligraphy: a letter written on a single sheet of soft beige Southworth 25% cotton stationery. A priest of …
Addressing a gathering of priests in Paraguay, the prefect of the Dicastery for the Clergy said that “the first vocation ministry is the witness of a happy priest.” “A young …
Amnesty International UK pulled a report that designated 117 organizations as “anti-rights,” including the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales and organizations that defend the rights to life and …
The president and two vice presidents of the French bishops’ conference lamented the legalization of euthanasia in France. The National Assembly (the French Parliament’s lower house) voted three times in …
At the conclusion of a three-day conference, most of which was held at Castel Gandolfo, some 200 Nobel laureates, AI experts, former heads of state, and Catholic prelates adopted the …
Detail from “The Scapegoat” (1854) by William Holman Hunt. (Image: Wikipedia) Everyone knows what a scapegoat is, but few realize that the word comes from the Bible. In Leviticus 16:20-22, …
Bishops at the Second Vatican Council. (Image: Lothar Wolleh/WikiCommons) In Part One of this essay on Dignitatis Humanae, I made the argument, following Tracey Rowland and Russel Hittinger, that DH …
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