A Christian GP who offers to pray with his patients has settled a case with the NHS after they tried to impose disciplinary measures on him. Dr Richard Scott, a GP for 35 years who practices at the Bethesda Medical Centre in Margate, Kent, was set to contest a ruling by the NHS in a Read more
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Christian GP who offers to pray with patients settles disciplinary case with NHS
Thursday, September 29th, 2022NSW to appoint school behaviour advisor
Thursday, September 29th, 2022NSW Labor leader Chris Minns says the best way to improve school students’ behaviour is a “blanket ban” on mobile phones, after the premier announced plans to appoint a specialist to advise on dealing with poor conduct. Dominic Perrottet said a chief behaviour adviser – a new NSW Department of Education role – would provide Read more
Human composting becomes a legal option
Thursday, September 22nd, 2022
Human composting has just become a post-life option in California. California’s governor on Sunday signed a bill allowing the process of converting bodies into soil. Despite opposition from the State’s Catholic bishops, the law will take effect in 2027 At present, burial, cremation and alkaline hydrolysis are the only death-care choices available in the Golden Read more
It’s ‘madness’ to think of using nuclear weapons in Ukraine says Pope
Thursday, September 22nd, 2022
It is madness, said Pope Francis when he heard Russia was threatening to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine. Last week Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the West he is not bluffing about using the weapons of mass destruction. He ordered Russia’s first mobilisation since World War Two and backed a plan to annex swathes of Read more
Belgian bishops create prayer liturgy for same-sex couples
Thursday, September 22nd, 2022
A group of Belgian Catholic bishops have defied the Vatican by introducing blessing ceremonies for same-sex couples in their dioceses. The bishops of Flanders also published a liturgy for the celebration of homosexual unions. “In doing so, they are going directly against the Vatican,” reported the Dutch newspaper Nederlands Dagblad. The Vatican clarified in March Read more
US synod concerned by division between laity and bishops
Thursday, September 22nd, 2022
A report on the 10-month US synod process has highlighted that Catholics are hurting from clergy abuse cases, and seek a church focused on lifelong spiritual, pastoral and catechetical formation as disciples. Participants were also concerned about the division between US Catholics and their bishops. They voiced a need for a welcoming church of “lived Read more
Using migrants as political pawns ‘offends God’
Thursday, September 22nd, 2022
Several US Catholic bishops slammed the actions of Republican politicians who have recently begun to ship migrants seeking refuge out of their states, saying using them as political pawns “offends God”. The bishops said these politicians are falsely telling the migrants that work, food and other benefits await them if they get on planes to Read more
Cardinal praying at Queen’s funeral signals King’s openness
Thursday, September 22nd, 2022
Inviting an English Catholic cardinal to take part in the Queen’s funeral signals the new King’s openness to ecumenical and interfaith dialogue. Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster’s inclusion was the first time for hundreds of years a Catholic cardinal or bishop has had a role in a royal funeral. Nichols is the president of the Read more
Cardinal Zen’s trial has been delayed due to COVID
Thursday, September 22nd, 2022The criminal trial of Cardinal Joseph Zen of Hong Kong has been delayed after the judge presiding over the case tested positive for COVID-19, Hong Kong media reported. Zen, 90, was to have stood trial beginning Monday in connection to his role as a trustee of a pro-democracy legal fund, which he and other trustees Read more
Cardinal Konrad Krajewski prays at mass grave in Ukraine
Thursday, September 22nd, 2022A Vatican envoy in Ukraine prayed in silence at the recently discovered mass grave in Izium on Monday while forensic experts in white protective suits exhumed bodies – at least 146 so far. Cardinal Konrad Krajewski said during his visit to the grave site on 19 September that “seeing so many [dead] in one area Read more