(Reuters) - The Vatican has appointed the archbishop of Berlin, seen by German media as part of a "new generation" of less dogmatic clergy, to take over the Cologne archdiocese, the largest and richest in Germany, it said on Friday. The move makes Rainer Maria Woelki, who turns 58 next month, one of the most...
Plans to assign every child in Scotland a state guardian could lead to good parents being penalised, an academic has warned ahead of a final vote on the issue in Holyrood later this month. Sociology lecturer Dr Stuart Waiton said the “secrecy” inbuilt in the SNP’s proposals – which would give children a ‘named...
Merriam-Webster is going to have to update the next edition of its dictionary, at least if marriage redefiners have their way. Do you know what the words “monogamish,” “throuple,” and “wedlease” mean? If not, you soon will. After all, the power to redefine words is the power to redefine reality. Let’s start with “monogamish,” a...
Pope Francis is back at the Vatican after a whirlwind World Youth Day celebration in Brazil. Not a single doctrine of the Catholic church was altered during this event. Frankly, there seems little likelihood there will be change to any Catholic doctrine in the foreseeable future. Pope Francis even made clear that there will...
I've just watched the Newsnight Scotland discussion on the BBC documentary Sins of Our Fathers - exposing physical and sexual abuse at Fort Augustus Abbey, the prestigious Catholic school in the Highlands - broadcast last night, and available to watch for the next six days. Throughout the entire documentary (and again on Newsnight Scotland) there...
Having spent some quite some time this week, in two telephone conversations with Madeleine Teahan, journalist with the Catholic Herald, as she wrote up her report on the Rob Flello MP & Co. attack on Catholic Truth, I was appalled to read her short report this morning, giving the majority of space to the Flello position and a short, inaccurate, quote...
Update - 15th July, 2013 My reply to Rob Flello MP Original Report - 13th July, 2013 Yesterday I received a phone call from Robert Watts, Deputy Political Editor on the London Telegraph, asking if we are the Scottish group responsible for demanding the excommunication of Catholic MPs who voted in favour of same sex marriage. Apparently, there is a leaflet circulating to that...
Update - article submitted by blogger Leo... For He must reign, until He hath put all His enemies under His feet – 1 Corinthians 15:25 “With God and Jesus Christ excluded from political life, with authority derived not from God but from man, the very basis of that authority has been taken away, because the chief...
Some time ago, A reader commented that Catholic Truth is not included in the list of British Catholic Blogs (BCB) and remarked "you're probably too Catholic for them!" I took a quick look and agreed - there's everything up there from "Auntie Joanna" (Bogle) to Medjugorje. Some time later... I decided to approach the BCB and on 21 June, sent...
There's allegedly a secretive "gay lobby" that wields massive behind-the-scenes influence at the Vatican. Pope Francis himself appears to have confirmed it, during what was intented to be a private conversation with a delegation of Latin American religious orders. His words somehow got leaked, and although his visitors apologised, his press office hasn't denied that...
