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CATHOLIC COMMENT FROM JOSEPH KELLY: A generation denied a future: why Britain’s latest welfare crackdown is a moral failure ....
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Britain needs more understanding of religion, not less — so why is the BBC cutting back? ...
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Pope Leo XIV sends video message for World Mission Sunday ...
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Unbelievably Christa Pike is awake, she is speaking, against extraordinary odds, the woman Tennessee tried to kill is still alive. I have spent the last week debating people who insist that justice now requires Tennessee to finish the job. I understand the serious retributive argument behind that position. Pike committed an appalling murder and nothing that has happened diminishes the evil inflicted upon Colleen Slemmer.
But something has changed. The state strapped Pike to a gurney, repeatedly punctured her arms attempting to establish IV access, administered two doses of pentobarbital, left her critically ill and unconscious on a ventilator, and nevertheless failed to kill her. Her arms were reportedly left swollen, burned and blistered. The Commissioner of Correction has resigned and the Governor has halted executions pending an independent investigation.
And now Pike has opened her eyes and spoken. At what point does mercy enter the equation? Catholicism does not require us to pretend that retributive justice is unreal, but neither does Christianity teach that justice consists in relentlessly exacting everything that is deserved, quite the contrary. Every one of us lives by a mercy we could never claim as our due.
Tennessee's Catholic bishops are now asking Governor Bill Lee to commute Pike's sentence and I think they are right to do so. She has survived the state's attempt to kill her. Let her spend whatever remains of her life confronting what she did, seeking repentance and making whatever reparation remains possible.
Justice need not disappear for mercy to have the final word.
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Justice, not vengeance: Christa Pike and the Catholic case for mercy ...
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Leo in France, Sheen in America: the Church reconfigures the art of speaking to the world ...
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El #Papa se detiene a rezar ante la placa con la inscripción “Hic decederunt”, que conmemora la masacre ocurrida el 2 de septiembre de 1792 durante la Revolución Francesa.
Más de 100 sacerdotes y religiosos fueron asesinados por negarse a prestar un juramento contrario a la fe.
Actually Polanski is the smartest man in room here by a mile, and Khan's smug arrogance handed him a priceless PR gift! Polanski's going to landslide Holborn!
Humiliation for @ZackPolanski, but @MayorofLondon simultaneously, powerfully and perhaps unwittingly proves the point being made by @KemiBadenoch, @Katie_Lam_MP and the @Conservatives.
Political discourse in England must be in English.
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No, it was a smug, arrogant and intentionally demeaning response to a perfect reasonable question. But sadly pretty typical of the individual concern. And don’t underestimate Polanksi, he’s the cutest political player on the pitch!
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Father Brent Bowman’s statement about his Eucharistic experience during Mass at St. Gabriel the Archangel Catholic Church, where he wept while consecrating the chalice.
“I felt the heaviness of Jesus’s substantial presence in the chalice in my hands. The chalice became too heavy to hold as I felt it pulled down to rest upon the altar. I felt my hands fixed to the chalice of the Precious Blood, and I could not physically move it. Attempting to elevate the Precious Blood, which I was not able to do for a period of time, I believe I was given grace to understand more deeply the bitter sweetness of Our Lord’s Passion and how much blood Christ shed for the immense weight of all our sins.”
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Don't care what one's view is of this or that political donation, this is a key point. Democracy is ill-served by playing fast and loose with law in this way. A sort of gerrymandering and manipulation as dangerous as any alleged interference in elections
Changing the law retrospectively is a very dangerous path for any government to follow. To criminalise what an individual believed to be legal behaviour at the time undermines the whole principle of the rule of law.
If the law is not clear, accessible and known in advance of any actions we take then we enter the realm of arbitrary justice which is the hallmark of dictators and tyrants.
The huge donations given to Reform UK raise genuine questions about whether we want to have a complete laissez faire approach to political fundraising or whether we want some restrictions at an individual, constituency or party level.
Do we want an American system where money is the dominant political influence or a nanny state which restricts our freedom to do what we want with our own money, or do we seek some equilibrium between the two?
This is a massively important debate for our democracy but knee jerk reactions designed to punish individual actions or parties create not only dangerous precedents but represent a frightening view of our potential future.
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I get the Catholic Church has very specific guidelines, but Father Judge should've been declared a Martyr.
He was killed in his religious duties by terrorists acting in the name of Islam. Not doing so treats 9/11 as a civil matter & not correctly as the result of a holy war.
Here is Father Mychal Judge in his last moments.
His mind is stirring and soul is heavy. It’s as if he knows. He whispers prayers to himself and for the tragic events happening above him.
He unfortunately would not survive the collapse of the south tower as debris fell on top of him in the north tower (as seen here).
The next scene is Batallion Chief Pfeifer’s brother Kevin, also deep in his thoughts and what he is seeing in front of him, who also tragically did not survive as the North tower collapsed.
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Remembering Father Mychal Judge—the FDNY chaplain and first official 9/11 victim.
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25 years on, I finally heard the story of Bill Biggart, photojournalist who lost his life on 9/11. One of 12 siblings from a Catholic Co. Leitrim family ...
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Archbishop John Sherrington thanks those who united to defeat assisted suicide Bill.
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On September 11, 2001, Chuck Costello, an elevator technician, ran 2.1 miles from the Mercer Hotel in SoHo, where he was working, to the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan to help those trapped in the two towers. His life-saving acts of courage and the lives he saved that day would come at the ultimate price.
Through the humble faith he modeled as a husband and a father to his final acts of heroism, Chuck demonstrated the very finest qualities of a Brother Knight.
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It is so so disappinting to see @Humanists_UK backing a bill that is so steeped in superstition and so transparently a vehicle for a corporate raid on what remains a great humanist achievement - the NHS
Listen to our seventh FREE weekly podcast of David Torkington’s spiritual classic set in the Outer Hebrides ...
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Parliament’s rejection of the assisted dying bill is a moment for gratitude — and renewed responsibility ...
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