“We spotted each other amid a crowd We became close and then parted ways. Our love was without joy Our parting will be without sadness.

demons.... The situation is" not a problem of celibacy but rather of infestation," one said, as

A Catholic priest in Phoenix, Arizona has been forced to resign and apologise after thousands of his baptisms have been found to be invalid because of a grammatical error.... On behalf of our local church, I too am sincerely sorry that this error has resulted in disruption to the sacramental lives of a number of the faithful.... “ I deeply regret my error and how this has affected numerous people in your parish and elsewhere....

President Vladimir Putin has used similar rhetoric to justify the invasion of Ukraine. The Pope appears to have made the comments in a live video address to Catholic youths gathered in St Petersburg.... You are the heirs of the great mother Russia.... This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding....

Listen 7 min Share Comment on this story Comment Add to your saved stories Save VATICAN CITY — Days before the start of the most significant Catholic gathering since the 1960s, Pope Francis dropped a theological bomb.... But the caution indicated a high hurdle for liberals looking for rapid change.“ I’m a bit disillusioned, ” said Rosanna Virgili, a theologian at the Rome-based Pontifical Lateran University.... “ It looks more like a rehash of Catholic doctrine.” The synod called it “ urgent ”

In a video posted online before he shot dead five people in Plymouth on Thursday, Jake Davison reflected on how some men his age had wives and children.“ Does an incel, a virgin, get that?... A third shows him complaining about having spent a year working out at the gym only to find himself still overweight.... There, some 46 people have been killed in shootings carried out by “ incels ”, perhaps the most notable example being when 22-year-old student Elliot Rodger murdered six people in Calif

This aerial photo taken on July 18 shows the giant Buddha statue at the Wat Paknam Phasi Charoen Buddhist temple complex in Bangkok, Thailand.... A devotee gives alms to Buddhist monks outside of a temple in Bangkok, Thailand on July 18.... A Buddhist monk walks to collect alms on a street in Bangkok, Thailand on July 18....

TOKYO — Jakucho Setouchi, a Buddhist priest and feminist author who wrote frankly about sex, entertained audiences with her insouciant wit and rendered one of Japan’s greatest classic works into a readable best seller, died on Nov.... Setouchi, whom some critics called “ Womb Writer ” because of her controversial novels about sex and family, flouted expectations for women throughout her lifetime.... Setouchi wrote more than 400 novels — fictional versions of her own love affairs and stories of

Read ourprivacy notice Thanks for signing up to theBreaking News email{{# verifyErrors}}{{ message}}{{/ verifyErrors}}{{^ verifyErrors}} Something went wrong.... ” Francis recounted Abril as saying, to which he replied that he had part of one lung removed after a respiratory infection.... After he assured the cardinal that the operation had taken place more than 50 years earlier, he remembered Abril muttering: “ Oh these last-minute maneuvers… ” Francis in the interview denied rumors he is pla

BANGKOK — In just four days, the reputation of a Buddhist monk who had spent decades fighting for the human rights of Cambodians was destroyed. First, grainy videos appeared on a fake Facebook page, claiming that he had slept with three sisters and their mother.... Under Prime Minister Hun Sen, the Cambodian government has repeatedly used falsified Facebook posts or manipulated audio to defame and imprison politicians, activists and other human rights defenders. Facebook has come under fire in