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Pope goes prime time and does first US TV network interview

April 25, 2024

Pope Francis has done his first extended one-on-one interview with a US TV network in the course of his 11-year papacy. The 87-year-old Pope on 24 April did an interview in Rome with news anchor Norah O’Donnell of CBS (the abbreviation of Columbia Broadcasting System), one of the main commercial broadcast television and radio networks

Columbia University’s Catholic chaplain condemns ‘malevolent’ nature of pro-Palestine protests

April 24, 2024

NEW YORK – Amid pro-Palestine protests at Columbia University that have led to more than 100 arrests, forced classes online and left Jewish students and faculty feeling unsafe and unwelcome, the university’s Catholic chaplain says the path forward “must first ensure that such malevolent protests, brimming with anti-Semitism, be stopped”. Father Roger Landry, who is

‘Something inexorably broke’ in the Holy Land after Hamas attack, says Latin Patriarch

April 24, 2024

The violence, which began on 7 October 2023 with the Hamas attacks on Israelis, marks a turning point in the 76-year-old conflict in the Holy Land. Even now, Hamas holds more than 100 Israeli hostages, and the Palestinian victims of the disproportionate Israeli reaction exceed 30,000. Some 70 per cent of them are women and

War has become ‘a way of life’ in Holy Land

April 17, 2024

War in Gaza has become a “way of life,” says a Franciscan priest in the Holy Land. “The Holy Land has been at war for almost seven months,” said Franciscan Father Ibrahim Faltas, Vicar of the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land. “It is a way of life, or rather an obligation to live the

‘Something has gone truly, terribly wrong’: the latest outbreak of anti-Semitism in Britain

April 13, 2024

The atrocities committed by Hamas on 7 October 2023 and the subsequent Israeli invasion of Gaza mark a turning point not just in the fraught relationship between Israel and the Palestinians but between religious communities and ethnic groups in the United Kingdom as well. Previous conflicts between Israel and Gaza have resulted in an increase

The Temple Mount encapsulates the tragedy of religious conflict today

April 09, 2024

Easter is a good time to reflect on what the Temple Mount means for the three Abrahamic faiths, especially in the wake of the 7 October attack by Hamas on Israel and all that has come to pass since. While holy to so many different religious believers, the Temple Mount in Jerusalem has also long

Pope’s ‘foreign policy’ Easter message: What got included, what got left out

March 31, 2024

ROME – A pope’s Easter Sunday Urbi et Orbi blessing, meaning “to the city and the world,” is generally understood to be one of his premier foreign policy statements of the year, a sort of 365-degree review of the global situation. Which issues and hotspots a pontiff chooses to highlight, therefore – and, equally, which he chooses

Gaza ceasefire ‘finally a step closer’ after UN Security Council resolution, says CAFOD

March 26, 2024

The United Nations Security Council on 26 March passed a resolution that calls for an immediate cease-fire during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. It also called for an unconditional release of all hostages. According to CAFOD, England’s leading Catholic international aid agency, as a result of the UN resolution, the conditions needed to prevent