London, England, Jul 22, 2019 / 06:01 pm (CNA).- The High Court has agreed to hear in September a bid from the parents of Tafida Raqeeb to take her to Italy for treatment. The five-year-old girl has been comatose since February, and UK doctors want to remove her life-sustaining treatment.
The UK doctors have barred Raqeeb’s parents from taking her abroad for treatment.
Two doctors from the Gaslini Children’s Hospital in Genoa examined Raqeeb via video link earlier this month, and they agreed to care for her in Italy. They said they did not believe her to be brain dead.
Bishop John Sherrington, an auxiliary bishop of Westminster and the English and Welsh bishops’ representative on life issues, said July 18 that “Difficult dilemmas have to be faced. In that process, I hope that all due weight will be given to the wishes of her parents, while also respecting the clinical judgement of the doctors caring for her. Those of us not in possession of all the relevant information mig
CNA Staff, May 21, 2021 / 05:45 am (CNA).
An ecumenical event in Germany last weekend culminated with the Catholic and Protestant leaders of the initiative publicly receiving communion in each others’ churches.
Bettina Limperg, the Lutheran co-president of the Ecumenical Church Congress, received Holy Communion in a Catholic church.
Thomas Sternberg, fellow co-president and head of the influential lay Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK), received communion during a service at a Protestant church.
The Ecumenical Church Congress took place in Frankfurt and online amid a controversy about intercommunion that drew the Vatican’s attention.
In the run-up to the May 13-16 event, Rome expressed concerns that the congress might promote a controversial proposal for a “Eucharistic meal fellowship” between Catholics and Protestants.
Catholics and Protestants Share Communion at German Ecumenical Convention 05/17/2021 at 7:13 PM Posted by Kevin Edward White
Frankfurt’s Cathedral of St. Bartholomew served as the site where Catholics and Protestants defied Church teaching against shared communion.
By Edward Pentin, National Ctaholic Register, May 17, 2021
FRANKFURT, Germany Protestant and Catholic worshippers in Germany defied Church teaching on Sunday by taking part in each other’s celebration of the Lord’s Supper at an Ecumenical Convention in Frankfurt.
In four services in the city, Catholics were invited to take part in an Evangelical Supper with Protestants and similarly invited to celebrate the Catholic Eucharist, with the decision to receive Holy Communion at Mass or bread at a Protestant service left to an individual’s conscience.
Germany s ecumenical assembly ends, but one bishop questions its benefits On: 5/17/2021, By , In: World .Three Christians lead the closing service of the Third Ecumenical Convention in Frankfurt, Germany, May 16, 2021: Volker Jung, president of the Protestant Church in Hesse and Nassau; Greek-Orthodox Archpriest Radu Constantin Miron, chairman of the Council of Christian Churches in Germany; and Bishop Georg Bätzing, president of the German Catholic bishops conference. Around 160,000 people, mostly via video conferencing, participated in discussions, Bible readings, worship services and other events exploring theological and social issues during three days of the convention. (CNS photo/Harald Oppitz, KNA) .Three Christians lead the closing service of the Third Ecumenical Convention in Frankfurt, Germany, May 16, 2021: Volker Jung, pres
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