News from the Vatican
In Rome, it’s been revealed that the Vatican is hosting a conference at the same altar, and on the same day, that organisers of the annual Summorum Pontificum pilgrimage had been refused permission to use it for a traditional Latin Mass. Michael Haynes examines the apparent contradiction and what it reveals about the continuing restrictions surrounding the older liturgy.
Feminism is usually presented as a movement created by women for women, but Carrie Gress argues that its intellectual origins tell a very different story. David Hahn speaks with the author of The End of Woman and Something Wicked about feminism’s male founders, its relationship with Christianity and what she believes it has done to relations between the sexes.
Sr Miriam James Heidland has announced that she is discerning the foundation of a new religious community dedicated to the renewal of the Church through the renewal of priests and religious life. Christine Rousselle reports on the proposed community, which would bring priests, religious sisters and lay people together in a shared mission of healing and formation.
Two Catholic schools in northern Syria have reopened almost six decades after they were taken from the Franciscan friars who established them. Corrie Douglas-Young reports on the restoration of the schools and the return of Catholic education to two Christian villages after years of war and upheaval.
The counterculture of the 1960s has become the establishment, leaving a new generation of young Catholics to discover that rebellion can sometimes mean embracing tradition. Patrick Neve argues that their instinctive rejection of contemporary orthodoxies must ultimately mature into something deeper: fidelity to Christ and His Church.
Feminism is usually presented as a movement created by women for women, but Carrie Gress argues that its intellectual origins tell a very different story. David Hahn speaks with the author of The End of Woman and Something Wicked about feminism’s male founders, its relationship with Christianity and what she believes it has done to relations between the sexes.
Sr Miriam James Heidland has announced that she is discerning the foundation of a new religious community dedicated to the renewal of the Church through the renewal of priests and religious life. Christine Rousselle reports on the proposed community, which would bring priests, religious sisters and lay people together in a shared mission of healing and formation.
Two Catholic schools in northern Syria have reopened almost six decades after they were taken from the Franciscan friars who established them. Corrie Douglas-Young reports on the restoration of the schools and the return of Catholic education to two Christian villages after years of war and upheaval.
The counterculture of the 1960s has become the establishment, leaving a new generation of young Catholics to discover that rebellion can sometimes mean embracing tradition. Patrick Neve argues that their instinctive rejection of contemporary orthodoxies must ultimately mature into something deeper: fidelity to Christ and His Church.
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