by Peter Westmore As News Weekly goes to press, the High Court of Australia has unanimously upheld the appeal by Cardinal George Pell against a majority decision of the Victorian Court of Appeal, reversing a terrible injustice suffered by the Cardinal last year. Cardinal Pell, pictured, had been convicted of sexually abusing two choir boys…
AIRBORNE NITROGEN DIOXIDE PLUMMETS OVER CHINA NASA and European Space Agency (ESA) pollution monitoring satellites have detected significant decreases in nitrogen dioxide (NO2) over China. There is evidence that the change is at least partly related to the economic slowdown following the outbreak of coronavirus. The maps on this page show concentrations of nitrogen dioxide, a noxious gas emitted by motor vehicles, power plants, and industrial facilities. The maps above show NO2 values across China from January 1 to January 20, 2020 (before the quarantine), and February 10 to February 25 (during the quarantine). According to NASA scientists, the reduction…
THE CHURCH IN CHINA The Wall Street Journal has published a most disturbing article, which describes the condition of the Catholic Church in China. The article refers to a recent agreement between the Catholic Church and the Communist Chinese Government. In September 2019, Chinese Cardinal Zen wrote a letter of appeal to the world’s 223 cardinals, alleging that the Chinese Church is being “murdered”. Since the agreement came into force, the persecution of the Church has increased. One is reminded of the concordat agreed between the Vatican and Hitler’s Germany. The Nazis violated the agreement almost as soon as it…
by Ernest R. Hull SJCatholic Truth Society, London, 1913 archive.org/details/galileoandhiscon00hulluoft This is an older book but about as good as it gets as a balanced popular account of the events that have become the affaire Galileo, which still has traction in our time. (A more recent (1964) popular treatment is by another Jesuit, James Brodrick. It too can be read online, at catholicsaints.info/galileo-and-the-roman-inquisition-by-father-james-brodrick-sj/) Hull opens his volume with a paradoxical assertion: “The condemnation of Galileo by the Roman Inquisition in 1633 is a subject from which any writer who aims at exciting interest would be most likely to abstain.” He…
