One of the Normandy church attackers ‘was on police radar and travelled to...
A local Muslim leader says one of the men who attacked a Normandy church was on French police radar and had travelled to Turkey. Mohammed Karabila, president of the Regional Council of the Muslim Faith...
View ArticleNormandy church attackers gave ‘sermon’ in Arabic before killing priest, says...
The two men who killed Fr Jacques Hamel in a French church filmed themselves and gave “a sort of sermon” in Arabic before murdering the 85-year-old, a nun who witnessed the atrocity has said. Fr Hamel...
View Article‘Do not think holiness is not for us’: a profile of Fr Jacques Hamel
Fr Jacques Hamel, murdered yesterday by Islamist terrorists at the age of 85, has been called the first priest-martyr of Western Europe in the 21st century. But before his death, he insisted that...
View ArticleThere is a solution to the Islamist threat to Europe
One of the great turning points in French history occurred during the summer of 1788. One of the King’s ministers sent a note to the royal treasury, requesting a sum of money. The reply when it came...
View ArticleFr Hamel was martyred ‘in odium fidei’, says Archbishop Fisher
In his homily at a Mass for the repose of the soul of Fr Jacques Hamel, Archbishop Anthony Fisher of Sydney, a theologian and member of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, said the priest...
View ArticleThe Pope’s comments on Fr Hamel’s murder were very mysterious
I am still trying to work out what it was the Pope meant to say when he spoke on the plane to Poland, saying that “It’s war, we don’t have to be afraid to say this … a war of interests, for money,...
View ArticleFrench imam says priest’s killers ‘are not part of humanity’
Muslims and Catholics joined in Friday prayers at the mosque in the Normandy town where an elderly priest was slain this week, with one imam chastising the extremists as non-Muslims who are “not part...
View ArticleMuslims go to Mass across France in show of solidarity with Catholics
In a gesture of solidarity following the killing of a French priest, Muslims attended Mass in churches and cathedrals across France and Italy on Sunday. A few dozen Muslims gathered at the towering...
View Article‘It’s not right to equate Islam with violence,’ says Pope Francis
Speaking to journalists aboard his return flight from Kraków, Poland, on Sunday, Pope Francis said that violence exists in all religions, including Catholicism, and it cannot be pinned to one single...
View ArticleIn the aftermath of Fr Hamel’s murder, France must reconnect with Christian...
The cold-blooded murder of 86-year-old Fr Jacques Hamel in a sixteenth-century church in Normandy by an Algerian-born youth has rattled Catholics around the world. How dare those people walk into our...
View ArticlePope Francis was wrong to equate Islamist terror with ‘Catholic violence’
Fifteen years after the September 11 attacks, and 10 years after Benedict XVI’s address at Regensburg, Pope Francis has adopted the consensus of the secular elite in relation to the threat of jihadist...
View ArticleThe saints’ answer to terrorism
The killing on July 26 of Fr Jacques Hamel, as he said Mass in Normandy, brings sharply to mind the priests the Church has lost to murder across the centuries – in our own times, to mention but a few,...
View ArticlePakistani Church deplores suicide blast at Quetta hospital
The Catholic Church in Pakistan has condemned a suicide blast at a hospital in Quetta, Pakistan, where at least 70 people — many of them lawyers and journalists — were killed and more than 120 injured....
View ArticleSecurity to be tightened at Lourdes for feast of the Assumption
After a series of recent terrorist attacks in France, security is being stepped up at Lourdes for the feast of the Assumption. The prefect of the Pyrénées region, Beatrice Lagarde, says the authorities...
View ArticleFaithful flock to Lourdes under heavy security
Catholic pilgrims from around the world, many sick or disabled, flocked to Lourdes on Monday under exceptional security after recent extremist attacks. Armed soldiers and police patrolled the train...
View ArticleChristians and Muslims must work together to prevent radicalisation, says...
French Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran has said that it is up to Christians and Muslims to prove to terrorists that it is possible for them to live side by side. The cardinal, president of the Pontifical...
View ArticlePope offers prayers for victims of Turkey suicide bombing
Pope Francis has offered prayers for the victims of Saturday’s suicide bombing in Turkey. 51 people were killed in the blast and a further 69 people were injured, including women and children, as they...
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French minister: ‘We are at war with an enemy trying to pit Muslims against...
France’s interior minister has said the country is at war with an enemy trying to pit Muslims against non-Muslims. Bernard Cazeneuve called for urgent action to create a strong bond between the nation...
View ArticleAmid terrorist threats and increased security, the gentle visibility of our...
During this summer I was fortunate enough to have spent a few days in Rome. It had been some years since I last went and so most of the four days were spent in the oppressive August heat trudging...
View ArticlePope Francis to celebrate Mass for Fr Jacques Hamel
Pope Francis is to celebrate Mass for Fr Jacques Hamel, the French priest killed by two Islamist terrorists in July. The murder took place on July 26 in the church of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray as Fr...
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