Jonathan Luxmoore

2 days ago | churchtimes.co.uk | Jonathan Luxmoore

FIFTEEN Roman Catholic nuns have been declared blessed martyrs, eight decades after being murdered by Russian soldiers in Poland. One was shot while resisting rape; two others were dragged to their deaths behind a speeding truck. “They all gave supreme witness of faith in the context of an ideological struggle that sowed persecution and death, violence and destruction in the Europe of their time,” the Prefect of the Dicastery for Saints’ Causes, Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, said.

4 days ago | news.diocesetucson.org | Jonathan Luxmoore

(OSV News) -- Prominent British Catholics have voiced grave concern about new government-backed legislation that will require Christian clergy to report information obtained during confessions about sexual abuse. "Priests always try to comply with the law -- but this won't happen if that law contradicts Catholic teaching," said Timothy Guile, chairman of the English Catholic History Association.

5 days ago | churchtimes.co.uk | Jonathan Luxmoore

POPE LEO XIV has reiterated his Church’s commitment to traditional family life, while urging its priests to help rebuild the credibility of a “wounded Church”.

6 days ago | news.diocesetucson.org | Jonathan Luxmoore

(OSV News) -- A Polish religious order has requested prayers from Christians worldwide for one of its senior priests, Oblate Father Andrzej Juchniewicz, who was sentenced to 13 years' imprisonment on unspecified political charges in Belarus. "He's the second priest to receive a heavy sentence recently, in what's clearly meant as a warning to other clergy not to engage in any public activity," said Father Marcin Wrzos, spokesman for the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate.

1 week ago | osvnews.com | Jonathan Luxmoore

3 “People should stop weaponizing the abuse of children to damage and score points against the church. That’s what seems to be happening in this case, and it’s uniquely offensive,” she said. The 370-page bill, unveiled Feb. 25 by Yvette Cooper, Britain’s home secretary, or interior minister, will strengthen police powers against terrorism, international crime, public disorder and antisocial behavior, as well as tightening sanctions on stalking and sexual offenses.