Interesting reading from the Vatican
The Vatican has marked the 60th anniversary of Nostra aetate by praising the growth of interreligious dialogue since the Second Vatican Council and calling for a renewed “shift in mindset” towards encounter and cooperation. Michael Haynes examines the new document’s vision of a “new ethic of dialogue” and the contrasting reactions it is likely to provoke within the Church.
President Donald Trump has nominated Jane “Cissie” Lynch, granddaughter of evangelist Billy Graham, to serve as US Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom. Christine Rousselle reports on Lynch’s background and the role she would assume as America’s chief diplomat for defending religious freedom abroad.
The historic Gillis Centre, administrative headquarters of the Archdiocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh, has been placed on the market as the Church seeks to reduce mounting maintenance costs. Corrie Douglas-Young looks at the history of the Pugin-designed complex and the archdiocese’s plans to find new premises in Edinburgh.
Claims that Catholics did not arrive in America until 1801 overlook a history stretching back to Spanish missionaries in the 16th century, the foundation of Maryland and the American Revolution itself. Christine Rousselle traces the Catholic presence in what became the United States and the prominent Catholics who helped shape the young republic.
Nations, loyalties and political communities are rarely so straightforward as the lines we see on a map. In light of President Trump’s recent comments, I examine the Catholic case for the Union and ask whether solidarity, subsidiarity and the claims of existing communities should make us warier of nationalism’s promise to tidy up the globe.
President Donald Trump has nominated Jane “Cissie” Lynch, granddaughter of evangelist Billy Graham, to serve as US Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom. Christine Rousselle reports on Lynch’s background and the role she would assume as America’s chief diplomat for defending religious freedom abroad.
The historic Gillis Centre, administrative headquarters of the Archdiocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh, has been placed on the market as the Church seeks to reduce mounting maintenance costs. Corrie Douglas-Young looks at the history of the Pugin-designed complex and the archdiocese’s plans to find new premises in Edinburgh.
Claims that Catholics did not arrive in America until 1801 overlook a history stretching back to Spanish missionaries in the 16th century, the foundation of Maryland and the American Revolution itself. Christine Rousselle traces the Catholic presence in what became the United States and the prominent Catholics who helped shape the young republic.
Nations, loyalties and political communities are rarely so straightforward as the lines we see on a map. In light of President Trump’s recent comments, I examine the Catholic case for the Union and ask whether solidarity, subsidiarity and the claims of existing communities should make us warier of nationalism’s promise to tidy up the globe.
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