Michigan Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer's staged a mockery of the Eucharist by giving a crisp to a kneeling feminist, mimicking the act of taking Communion. She speaks of a misinterpretation, but it her feeble excuse fails to convince.

Father George Haddad with some students
INTERVIEW / FATHER HADDAD

In Bethlehem there is a Catholic school preparing for a better future

Despite the many difficulties and discrimination caused by the war, more than 1,200 students - Christians and Muslims - keep hope alive. ‘Education is the key to being able to stay in this land and make it a safer place’. Says Father Giorgio Haddad, Franciscan, director of the Holy Land School.

VATICAN

New cardinals: Africa punished, Fiducia supplicans' takes revenge

Africans almost absent among the 21 cardinals appointed by Pope Francis: failure to endorse gay blessings bars entry to the sacred college. Promoted Radcliffe, the pro-lgbt Dominican preacher at the Synod.

ASSESSMENT

Israel’s war for survival ignores international laws

After a year of war against Hamas, Israel acts like a maverick, violating international law. It claims the right to exist, but ignores the prerogatives of other peoples. Since 7 October to date, the Israeli army has killed 41,878 people in the Gaza Strip and 96,794 have been injured.

Cardinal Muller

Abundance of political correctness and devoid of concern for the crisis of faith in Christ: the former Prefect of the Doctrine of the Faith comments on the pre-Synod penitential vigil and points the finger at the bankruptcy curators in cassocks.


Everyone is waiting with bated breath for Israel's harsh response to Iran’s missile attack (with announced counter-response). But it will not be war, with its burden of death destruction and suffering, that will restore peace and security. And this is the reason why everyone should participate in the day of prayer and fasting on 7 October as requested by the Patriarch of Jerusalem.

The Belgian theologian Gabriel Ringlet has not digested Pope Francis' papal” expressions against abortion and reproaches him in the name of the ethics of exceptions. By dint of triggering trialsnow the Pontiff himself is overwhelmed.

NEW CONSULTANTS

Fernandez appoints progressive theologians to change Church teaching on morality

The new Consultors of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith are progressive theologians who promise to change the Church's doctrine on contraception, homosexuality, marriage, theology of the body, to fundamentally change Catholic morality in general.

AFRICAN CONTINENT

Pope’s call for cancelling poor countries debts rewards most corrupt governments

Cancelling the debt of the poorest states is one of the constants of solidarist thinking. But young Africans protest against corruption and oppose the indebtedness of their governments.

DEVOTION

Italian city revives veneration of Precious Blood of Jesus relic

Terni, a town in Italy’s most central region, is hosting celebrations for the feast of the relic of the Precious Blood, preserved in the cathedral. The link with Saint Joseph of Cupertino, who venerated the precious relic. And the city liberated from the plague. A glimpse of "a fundamental devotion".

ANALYSIS

Vatican Note on Medjugorje a desire for control amid contradictions

The Vatican's nihil obstat to the spiritual experienceof Medjugorje changes very little for pilgrims, but from now on the messages will be scrutinised by the Pope's envoy. What concern is there if any, about the announced secrets? And how does one reconcile the refusal to establish the supernaturalness with the established authenticity of the first seven apparitions?