Catholic Leftists on the march
The triumphal American visit of Pope Francis was covered widely as a boost to the Catholic Left, and a challenge to the Catholic Right. Yet the Pope, who is a “little bit more leftist”, poses a...
View ArticleFive controversial saints in the making
The controversy stirred up by the canonisation of St Junípero Serra is still raging in America. It’s a reminder that with social media and modern communications there is ever greater accessibility to...
View ArticleDorothy Day’s granddaughter urges Catholics to speak out against war and...
Catholics have a responsibility to respond to violence, poverty and wars, according to Dorothy Day’s granddaughter Martha Hennessy. Hennessy made the plea at a morning talk on November 21 in the church...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 14/04/16
The Obama administration has said it could make further changes to the contraceptive mandate to resolve its dispute with the Little Sisters of the Poor. US vice-president Joe Biden will visit the...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 20/04/16
Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York has opened a new stage in the Cause of Dorothy Day (John Allen, Fr Brandon O’Brien). Western Europe has become like the atheist Soviet Union, Russian Orthodox...
View ArticleCardinal Dolan announces next step in Dorothy Day’s canonisation
The Cause of social justice pioneer Dorothy Day has taken a step forward after a decision by Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, to open a canonical inquiry into her life. The Archdiocese...
View ArticleFriends of Dorothy Day commend important step in her sainthood cause
The recent update in the sainthood cause for American Catholic icon Dorothy Day is welcome news to many of her friends and associates who believe her understanding of Catholic social teaching should be...
View ArticleFr Daniel Berrigan, anti-war and pro-life campaigner, dies aged 94
Fr Daniel Berrigan, the American Jesuit and radical political activist, has died at the age of 94. Fr Berrigan died after a “long illness” at Murray-Weigel Hall, a Jesuit health care community in New...
View ArticleBrexit will hurt the vulnerable. Catholics must show solidarity in action
Recently I read that Pope Francis had commended a book by the theologian Fr John Navone SJ, entitled A Theology of Failure. Those of us who argued that Catholics should not support the leave campaign...
View ArticleYes, Tradinistas are left-wing radicals – but that doesn’t make us any less...
We’ve been called “Angry, Churchy Millennials Who Scorn Freedom” and told we must be joking. Our crime? To release a political manifesto which combines socialist ideas with Catholic orthodoxy. But the...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 07/02/17
Donald Trump is expected to meet Pope Francis in May, reports Christopher Lamb. The German bishops’ guidelines on Amoris Laetitia are “very demanding”, a senior official has said. An Italian journalist...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 09/02/17
The Holy See and China have reached “a preliminary consensus” on bishops’ appointments, Cardinal John Tong has said (full text). Cardinal George Pell’s spokesman has accused the Greens party of...
View ArticleA book of saints that includes Henry Thoreau and Bernard Häring? No thanks
Reading some of the entries in Robert Ellsberg’s fat book, Blessed Among Us: Day by Day with Saintly Witnesses (Liturgical Press) has given me much food for thought and not a little indigestion. His...
View ArticleThis was a grim night for Christians and pro-lifers in parliament
It turns out that June is the cruellest month: for Theresa May and her party, for pollsters and pundits, and also for Christians in politics. Last night we lost some outstanding examples of Christians...
View ArticleDorothy Day: the perfect saint for our time
When I blogged about the book Saints for the Family earlier this week, I was naturally referring to saints who had families themselves or who had a particular spiritual message for human families. Yet...
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