Today’s Catholic must-reads: 20/07/11
Archbishop Charles Chaput visited the shrines of local saints St John Neumann and St Katharine Drexel, with his predecessor as Archbishop of Philadelphia, Cardinal Justin Rigali, yesterday. George...
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Christians should “welcome fraternal correction” and impart it with humility, Benedict XVI said at the Angelus yesterday (video).The Vatican published its long-awaited response to the Cloyne Report on...
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The funeral Mass of Archbishop Philip Hannan, a giant of the post-war American Church, took place in New Orleans yesterday.La Croix reports that the Holy See will publish the full Doctrinal Preamble...
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Benedict XVI has said that he has “never been welcomed with such enthusiasm” on a foreign trip as he prepares to leave Mexico after a four-day visit to the country (full texts, videos).The Vietnamese...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 24/05/12
The Italian bishops have issued their first guidelines on handling accusations of clerical sexual abuse.The Vatican has published a document on its website on discerning alleged apparitions previously...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 03/06/12
The Pope confirmed the appointment of Bishop Gerhard Ludwig Müller of Regensburg as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith yesterday (analysis by Rocco Palmo and John Allen, comment...
View ArticleThe Bishops’ Conference has decided that Day for Life 2012 is all about the...
A week or two ago, I referred to “the great conundrum, for the English Church, about the reign of John Paul II: why was it, when he had appointed most of our bishops, did nearly all of them go out of...
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“We cannot pray to God individualistically,” Benedict XVI said at this morning’s general audience (video).A businessman staged a protest against the Italian government on the dome of St Peter’s...
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Benedict XVI recalled his personal memories of Vatican II at his general audience this morning on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the start of the Council (full text, video).The Vatican has released...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 04/01/13
A group of European and North American bishops known as the Holy Land Co-ordination will visit Syrian refugees in Jordan next week.Almost 2.5 million pilgrims saw Benedict XVI at the Vatican in 2012,...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 14/01/13
Benedict XVI urged every Catholic “to make a memorial of his or her own baptism” in his Angelus address yesterday (video).Pope Benedict baptised 20 children in the Sistine Chapel on yesterday’s feast...
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Benedict XVI reflected on why the Creed describes God the Father as “Creator of heaven and earth” at his general audience this morning.The media “did a service” in revealing the extent of clerical...
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“God always waits for us, even when we have left him behind,” Pope Francis said as he formally took possession of the St John Lateran on Sunday (full text, full video). The Pope urged the faithful not...
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“Without prayer, what we do becomes empty,” Pope Francis said at the general audience this morning (full text, short video, full video). The Lord has redeemed everyone with the Blood of Christ,...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 30/05/13
The crisis in Syria will not be resolved by “a military intensification of the armed conflict“, the Holy See’s UN Observer Archbishop Silvano Tomasi has said. The Vatican will not be publishing the...
View ArticleIs Pope Francis thinking of appointing as prefect of the Congregation for...
There have, it seems, for the last four or five months been persistent rumours from the eternal city that a dedicated opponent of Benedict XVI’s liturgical reorientation of the Church (certainly...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 07/10/13
“Prayer is the breath of faith,” Pope Francis said in his Angelus address yesterday (full video). Fourteen people have died in clashes between Muslims and Christians in the Central African Republic,...
View ArticleSome Catholic ‘traditionalists’ have about the same relationship with the...
Well, Pope Francis continues to fascinate us all, and to unnerve some, even including old died in the wool papalists like me; though I still have a pretty unshakeable confidence that all is well. Pope...
View ArticleThe secular media caricatures the Pope’s words, but the Holy Father must...
Ever since Pope Francis initiated his own style of communicating his views on belief and the practice of the Faith through unrehearsed interviews and informal homilies during Mass at the Casa Sancta...
View ArticlePro-life campaigners must continue fighting the culture war
A friend, Amanda Lewin, who has been organising a monthly, peaceful pro-life witness outside the road leading up to the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford for nearly seven years, emails that recently...
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