One blow after another for Meloni, from the justice system to immigration. As for the former general’s programme, however, there has been silence. Just a few brief warnings and clarifications

The appeals from various churches, from the Catholic to the Evangelical, to counter Alternative für Deutschland, have come to nothing. The risk of political ‘retaliation’ is extremely high

Kremlin drones flying over children returning to school: the fear and resilience of a people. “Europe does not understand that Ukraine is defending the peaceful lives of Westerners,” says Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk 

From Alexander III, the pope who faced the schism caused by Frederick I Barbarossa, to Sergius I, elected in defiance of the hundred pounds of gold offered by Archdeacon Pasquale, via the unpredictable conclave of 1914 which took even the tailors—who had been left without their cassocks—by surprise

A Hong Kong court has upheld the conviction of Cardinal Joseph Zen and four other pro-democracy activists, fining them four thousand dollars each for failing to correctly register their fund (the 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund, which no longer exists) as an association under the city’s Societies Ordinance.

His success as a guru among the educated and inquisitive—a group that includes a great many attractive and capable people—is surprising in that it coincides with secularism; he follows a worldview rooted in existentialism and a spirit of liberty, utilitarianism and joie de vivre, seeking to ground all this in an encounter between East and West that today sounds strange and even sinister.

The first session of the Synodal Conference, which had already been scheduled for November, will not take place. It has been postponed until a date to be confirmed, amid grumbling from the local laity. The reason? The expected go-ahead has not yet arrived from the Vatican.

After four years of investigations and trials, a Canadian judge has ordered the woman who accused Cardinal Marc Ouellet to pay the cardinal $100,000 in damages for “defamation and slander”