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Study from Netherlands: Most children outgrow transgender inclinations

04/08/2024 at 6:04 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Tyler Arnold, Catholic News Agency, April 8, 2024 A study from researchers in the Netherlands found that nearly two-thirds of children who had wished that they belonged to the opposite sex as adolescents ultimately became comfortable with their biological sex in early... read more

Chaos deepens as Dutch bishops collectively reject blessings for same-sex couples

01/23/2024 at 2:51 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Simon Caldwell, Catholic Herald, January 19, 2024 The Dutch bishops have become the latest conference to collectively reject the new provision by the Vatican for non-liturgical blessings to same-sex couples and those in irregular relationships. A statement issued by the Bishops’... read more

Dutch election winner Geert Wilders is an anti-Islam firebrand known as the Dutch Donald Trump

11/22/2023 at 6:54 PM By Kevin Edward White
Geert Wilders, leader of the Party for Freedom, known as PVV, speaks to media after casting his ballot in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2023. Dutch voters cast ballots in a general election that will usher in a new prime minister for the first time in 13 years,... read more

Faithful Dutch bishop: Pope Francis wrong to remove Bishop Strickland without appeal

11/20/2023 at 10:59 PM By Kevin Edward White
'It is extremely unusual to be deprived of a canonical procedure. These are methods we might expect to see in North Korea, or Rome in the days of Nero,' wrote Bishop Rob Mutsaerts of Strickland's removal. By Jeanne Smits, LifeSite News, Novmber 20, 2023 Bishop Rob Mutsaerts, auxiliary... read more

Cardinal Eijk: ‘I don’t give up’

10/30/2023 at 8:16 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Edgar Beltran, The Pillar, October 30, 2023 The Netherlands is one of the most secularized countries in Europe. It wasn’t always that way, of course. Between 1860 and 1960, the Church in the Netherlands flourished – in fact, by some estimates, one in 10 missionaries in the world... read more

Call to Synodality: Are we living through the 1970s again?

06/01/2023 at 6:46 AM By Kevin Edward White
The differences between then and now are obviously very real. Then it was the Vatican that nixed national pastoral councils; now it’s Pope Francis who is the moving force behind synodality. By Russel Shaw, the Dispatch/ Catholic World Support, June 1, 2023 People fretting over the... read more

Prominent Dutch Philosopher and Convert Charts Her Path to the Catholic Church

04/24/2023 at 10:35 PM By Kevin Edward White
Political commentator Eva Vlaardingerbroek and her father will be received Into the Church Sunday. By Edward Pentin, National Catholic Register, April 23, 2023 AMSTERDAM — Eva Vlaardingerbroek, a popular Dutch legal philosopher and political commentator who has become well-known... read more

Are We All Schismatics Now?

10/03/2022 at 2:09 PM By Kevin Edward White
The recent news of the Bishops’ Conference of Belgium approving a “blessing” and ritual service for same-sex couples is hardly surprising, given the current state of the Catholic Church in the Low Countries. Across the border, in Germany, the infamous “Synodal Way” marches apace... read more

Some Dutch churches to skip Mass due to energy costs, priest shortage

09/04/2022 at 11:09 PM By Kevin Edward White
Swissinfo.ch, September 1, 2022 AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Rocketing energy bills and a shortage of priests have driven a Dutch Roman Catholic Diocese to cut down on religious services in some churches. The southern Diocese of Roermond, which oversee roughly 290 churches in the province of... read more

Dutch cardinal urges reluctant parishes to re-open for worshippers

01/17/2022 at 10:48 AM By Kevin Edward White
By Francesco Paloni, Crux, January 17, 2022 Despite the fact that the current COVID-19 protocol in The Netherlands allows churches to admit 50 worshippers, six parishes in the Archdiocese of Utrecht chose not to hold any physical celebrations at all. The decision led to angry reactions from... read more

THE EUTHANASIA CANCER SPREADS

01/01/2021 at 3:42 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Wesley J. Smith, First Things, December 31, 2020The West is tearing itself apart. The symptoms are evident in our bitterly divided politics and the attempts to punish those with heterodox views. But they are particularly evident in the ongoing collapse of the sanctity of human life ethic, which... read more