Browsing: Catholic

Standing in the historic North End of Sydney, Nova Scotia, St. Patrick’s Church is the oldest surviving Catholic church on Cape Breton Island. Behind its stone walls lies an unusual history of forbidden religious practices, forgotten burials, and reported paranormal encounters.

Look up as you walk the old lanes of Victoria, Gozo’s capital, and you’ll start seeing them: small religious shrines — niċeċ in Maltese — set into house walls and above doorways. Some are elaborate stone niches holding carved saints under Baroque canopies; others are simple painted figures behind glass, with a vase of plastic…

A former Roman Catholic bishop has been sentenced to six and a half years in prison for sexually abusing two young indigenous men in Western Australia.