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A woman leaves the formerly Jesuit-run Central American University in Managua, Nicaragua, on Aug. 16, 2023. The university suspended operations Aug. 16 after Nicaraguan authorities branded the school a "center of terrorism" the previous day and froze its assets for confiscation. (OSV News photo/Reuters)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Clarke
Jesuits: The “unpunished and unjustified confiscation” of UCA has done “inestimable damage to the scientific and cultural heritage of Nicaragua.”
Detail of embroidery in Canongate Kirk in Edinburgh, explaining the origin of the church ​​​​​​​Stephencdickson - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=73268446)
Arts & CultureDispatches
David Stewart
The Edinburgh Festival of the Sacred Arts seeks to reclaim a place for Christian faith in human culture and put faith back into the festival season.
Cork, Ireland’s second-biggest city, is now debating whether to continue beginning city council meetings with a prayer. In this photo from Dec. 8, 2022, a statue of Mary is carried during a procession through the streets of Cork in celebration of the feast of the Immaculate Conception. (CNS photo/Cillian Kelly)
FaithDispatches
Kevin Hargaden
A newly elected city councilor in Cork, Ireland, wants to stop the practice of opening meetings with a prayer. He also calls for the removal of a crucifix from the council chamber.
The world's tallest cross dominates the scene above a Spanish Civil War cemetery and memorial in the Valley of the Fallen (renamed the Valley of Cuelgamuros) near Madrid, pictured in October 2019. (CNS photo/Emilio Naranjo, pool via Reuters)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Bridget Ryder
Spanish media reports that the ministry of culture is drafting a law that will expel monks. But that task will not be easy. The 21 monks do not wish to leave their monastery.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
David Stewart
Some polls are going as far to predict that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak might lose his own seat on July 4. He would be the first Conservative prime minister to suffer such a humiliation.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Michael O’Brien
Two-thirds of former prisoners in the United States are arrested again within three years of being released. A Catholic halfway house in Florida is trying to change that.