‘Behold the Heart that has so loved men’
Was it a system unique to schools in the care of the Sisters of Notre Dame? I have no idea and it probably betrays my vintage. However, during the last days of Pope Pius XII and the first of Pope John...
View ArticleToday’s Catholic must-reads: 19/10/11
God is the “star of hope” in our darkest hours, Benedict XVI said at his general audience this morning (video). The Pope has confirmed that Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò will be the next Apostolic...
View ArticleNotre-Dame Cathedral evacuated after suicide
Notre-Dame Cathedral was evacuated on Tuesday after a historian shot himself dead in front of the main altar in what is believed to have been a protest against gay marriage. Dominique Venner, 78, who...
View ArticleNotre Dame theologian Fr Richard McBrien dies
Fr Richard McBrien, a retired professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame and who was chair of the university’s theology department for 11 years, died on Sunday at the age of 78 in...
View ArticleBy giving Joe Biden a prestigious award, Notre Dame is continuing to destroy...
An article by David Carlin for The Catholic Thing last Friday attracted my attention with its provocative title: “Notre Dame and the Hungry Sheep”. I realised it must concern Notre Dame, the famous...
View ArticleObituary: Mgr Bernard Doyle
“I’m standing in an empty field with hordes of homeless boys. It’s a sea of mud. All around is chaos – bricks, rusting iron and crumbling cement. There is a steel shortage, a builders’ strike, protests...
View ArticleThree women charged over Notre Dame Cathedral gas canister plot
Three women accused of being part of an ISIS cell that was planning imminent attacks in France will remain in custody after a judge confirmed preliminary charges of terrorism, Paris prosecutors said on...
View ArticleUS presidential election offers the worst choice in 50 years, says archbishop
In his 50 years of voting in US elections, Philadelphia Archbishop Charles J Chaput has said he has never seen the two major parties offer “two such deeply flawed” presidential nominees “at the same...
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