Speaking with ACI Prensa, CNA’s Spanish-language news partner, Father Kirill Gorbunov, who is also vicar general of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of the Mother of God at Moscow, said that “the majority of the people are suffering” and that “after a year of war [with Ukraine], there is no foreseeable solution.” “It seems that the Read more
Pope Francis said Wednesday that the traditions of the Church should not be based on opinion or ideological leanings but on whether they favour the proclamation of the Gospel. “Everything in the Church must be conformed to the requirements of the proclamation of the Gospel; not to the opinions of the conservatives or the progressives, Read more
A road that could see 1500 new homes on land once partly owned by a famous sailor is at the centre of a proposed plan change in Upper Hutt. The Guildford Timber Company wants to develop land, some of which was once owned by round the world sailor Sir Francis Chichester, behind Silverstream. Plan Change Read more
Father Vyacheslav Grynevych vividly remembers the first day of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine one year ago. The Catholic priest woke up to a phone call: “Father, wake up because the war has started.” “I understood that my life would never be the same as before,” Grynevych said. A few days ahead of the Read more
Strong lending growth has helped bolster the first half profits of Kiwibank but its chief executive is expecting a tougher second half ahead. The Government-owned bank saw its half year net profit rise 53 per cent to $98 million for the six months to December. Chief executive Steve Jurkovich said the strong first half reflected Read more
Earlier this month, two Poor Clare nuns were expelled from religious life for defying a Vatican order to abandon their 13th-century convent on Italy’s Amalfi coast. Now 13 Benedictine sisters in Tuscany could face a similar fate as they too resist a Vatican decree, which involves the removal of their mother superior. The drama centres Read more
The Holy See and Oman have established full diplomatic relations, leaving only six countries worldwide without any diplomatic connection to the Vatican. The announcement on Feb 23 did not come as a surprise because in November, during Pope Francis’ trip to Bahrain, there had been contact between the Vatican and Oman’s Foreign Ministry. The agreement Read more
A significant minority of Americans would favour genetic screening of embryos simply to boost their child’s chance to attend an elite university, a new survey indicates. Several bioethics experts and economists designed the survey to explore public opinion about in-vitro fertilization (IVF) and the hypothetical genetic testing of embryos before they are implanted in the Read more
When the cyclone came and the power failed in Napier, pharmacist Susie Farquhar and her husband, Richard jumped in the car, grabbed medicines that were ready and drove them out to people they could reach. “If people don’t have medicines, some people will die, that’s the fact of it … Pharmacists just have to find Read more
Pope Francis told the Pontifical Academy for Life on Monday that it faces an enormous task in evaluating the ethics of emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI) and human enhancement. The pope asked the academy on Feb. 20 to “ensure that scientific and technological growth is reconciled more and more with a parallel development Read more