What we thought was the probable next stage in the process to disentangle the United Kingdom from the European Union has been blocked by the court.
Europe
Posted inPolitics & Society, Signs Of the Times
After-Brexit Worries
The U.K.’s Catholic Association for Racial Justice plans to identify and support specific groups who have become newly vulnerable since Brexit.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
While French authorities clear out a migrant camp, U.K. politicians stall on response to child migrants
French authorities’ move to shut down the camp put further pressure on the British government to accept more refugees, especially unaccompanied children.
Posted inFaith, News
Italian quake destroys historic Catholic landmarks
The quake felled several significant churches including the 14th-century Basilica of St. Benedict in the main square of Norcia.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
At Citizens Assembly, Ireland’s abortion laws come back into focus
The assembly will be examining what is widely referred to as the Eighth Amendment, which gives effect to Ireland’s ban on abortion.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Signs Of the Times
News Briefs
Pope Francis made a surprise visit on Oct. 4 to the town of Amatrice in Italy, recently devastated by an earthquake, and told survivors there: “From the first moment” of the tremblor on Aug. 24, “I felt the need to be here.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Culture
Tracking the theologies coming out of Russian émigrés in mid-century Paris
Bitter, brilliant controversy wracked each stage of the evolution of The Way and its allied academic institutions.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Signs Of the Times
London town is falling up? Saving a famous skyline from too-rapid development
Along the River Thames, to the east and the west, new tall buildings shoot up almost monthly.
Posted inOf Many Things, Politics & Society
How Queen Elizabeth put forgiveness into action
Forgiveness, of course, is much more than a feeling. It is a series of small, often painful acts that culminate in a conversion of hearts that creates the very possibility of peace. Queen Elizabeth II put forgiveness into action.