Noe Trinidad Chavez a 56-year-old, a native of the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, was born and raised Catholic. Now he’s the owner of two Jewish food shops, including this one that’s no more than 6 feet by 14 feet with a lime-green awning adorned with a Star of David. Read more
Christ Church Cathedral is now feline-free for the first time in years after the capture of Bonnie and Clyde. The pair were the last two cats left roaming the earthquake-damaged cathedral and the surrounding square after more than 25 cats were rescued from the area in the past two years. Read more
On a street in Milan, the capital of Italy’s Lombardy region, which has been hit particularly hard by the coronavirus pandemic, Pope Francis begs for alms, his cassock in tatters. Read more
In the first case of its kind in New Zealand, a well-known Kiwi-Indian community leader based in Wellington, Mr Kantilal Bhagabhai Patel, has lost his membership of the Wellington Justices of Peace (JP) Association, after some of his social media posts were deemed anti-Muslim in nature. Ms Ann Clark, who is the Vice President of Read more
Father Sean Connolly has built a strong local following for his daily Evening Prayer podcast from St George’s in the East Anglia diocese. However, one recent broadcast did not quite go as planned after he went off for his hour’s daily exercise on his bike. Read more
In Montréal, Quebec, two Sikh doctors have made the choice to break the rules of their religion in the service of a greater principle. Bill Brownstein tells the story of Sanjeet Singh-Saluja and Rajeet Singh-Saluja, who both work within Montréal’s overtaxed hospital system. Their facial hair has never presented a problem before, but that changed when the spread of COVID-19 Read more
But the Trappist monks of New Melleray Abbey are not closed off from the world’s troubles. Last week, in response to the coronavirus, the 22 monks living in the abbey, about 13 miles from Dubuque, decided to offer pine caskets Continue reading
A Virginia priest ordered Chinese food on Uber Eats, but when the driver arrived, the priest got a second knock on the door. “Are you a priest? A Catholic priest?” the man asked Father Dan Beeman of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in the Virginia city of Newport News. Read more
Lifelong practising Catholic, Warhol’s spiritual side became more evident in his art in the 1980s. The retrospective, which includes the artist’s iconic images of Marilyn Monroe and Campbell’s soup cans, also includes a 1986 work entitled “Sixty Last Suppers,” a large-scale compilation made up of repeated images of Leonardo da Vinci’s “Last Supper.” A major Read more