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Over the recent Whitsun weekend I, and more than 20,000 other pilgrims, descended upon the city of Chartres, in a walking pilgrimage

Entitled ‘From Samurai to Manga, the Christian epic in Japan’, an exhibition is on display until 13 July at the Mep premises. On display are objects from various collections that trace the history of persecutions and ‘hidden Christians’ but also the vitality of today's ‘little flock’.

Catholic thinkers would provide the intellectual leadership for the more numerous evangelical spearcarriers. With evangelicals, Catholics could potentially create a political majority for social conservatism.

Bishop Barron may be correct that the church has become intellectually weaker, but the way to truth is to continue inviting the voices of those who have been marginalized in the past.

All told, estimates are that only six of 328 parishes in the Archeparchy of Ernakulam-Angamaly actually obeyed the delegate’s warning.

According to a Kyiv International Institute of Sociology survey in August of 2022, 72% of Ukrainians identify with some variant of Orthodoxy. Their

Western bears a heavy responsibility for destabilising the Middle East, with tendency to export its culture and ask peoples in region to conform their lives to it, Claudio Gugerotti, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Eastern Churches said.

Lucas Banzoli is a very active Brazilian anti-Catholic theological writer, who denies that Jesus is immutable in His Divine Nature. In other words, Josephus uses adelphos [lit., “brother”] many times in a sense other than “sibling.” Thus, his meaning when he refers to James, the “brother of Jesus” isn’t certain.

A Ukrainian bishop warned huge numbers of citizens could flee to Western countries during winter, and he appealed for continued international support in the face of a threatened “humanitarian catastrophe.”

When Pope Francis met senior figures from the Russian Orthodox Church in mid-September, some feared Moscow could exploit the encounter to butt...