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Europe Synodality

German synodal path ‘cannot end well’, Cardinal Kasper warns

Cardinal Walter Kasper warned the leaders of the German synodal path initiative that their plans were “overshooting the target” for synodality and will not “end well”. Source: The Tablet.

Europe

Frederik and Mary crowned King and Queen of Denmark

Frederik X and his Australian-born wife Mary Donaldson became King and Queen of Denmark yesterday following the formal abdication of his mother, Queen Margrethe II, who had been on the throne for 52 years. Source: Vatican News.

Europe Laity Liturgy

Priest shortage forces Irish diocese to rely on laity to preside over funerals

More than 40 laymen and laywomen in the Clogher Diocese in the north of Ireland will soon begin presiding over funeral liturgies amid a shortage of priests. Source: CNA.

Europe

Irish bishops plan pastoral letter to urge return to Mass

Concern that attendances at Mass have not returned to pre-pandemic levels has prompted the Irish bishops to prepare a special pastoral letter on Sunday Mass. Source: The Tablet.

Europe

Macron to invite Pope to reopening of Notre Dame

French President Emmanuel Macron visited the newly erected spire of Notre Dame de Paris on Friday, one year before the cathedral is due to reopen on December 8 next year. Source: The Tablet.

Europe Religious Freedom

Court rules government offices in EU can ban wearing of religious symbols

A new ruling from the Court of Justice of the European Union allows member states to prohibit the wearing of religious symbols or clothing by employees in public institutions. Source: Aleteia.

Arts Europe

Class trip to see musical blocked by France’s secularism laws

The producer of a popular French musical about St Bernadette Soubirous has filed an appeal against an official ruling that a state school cannot use a free cultural pass for a class trip to his show because the topic violated France’s secularism laws. Source: The Tablet.

Europe

Police blame ‘far-right hooligans’ for riot after Dublin stabbings

Police in Ireland have arrested 34 people following a riot in Dublin last week that erupted following a knife attack outside a Catholic primary school, leaving three children and a woman injured, two of them critically. Source: The Tablet.

Europe Martyrs

Catholics call for opening of canonisation cause for slain sacristan

Catholics in the southern Spanish Diocese of Cádiz and Ceuta are calling for the Church to promote the canonisation cause of Diego Valencia, a sacristan who was murdered by a Muslim extremist in January. Source: CNA.