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Morning Catholic must-reads: 29/04/19
April 28, 2019
“The wounds of Jesus are a treasure from which mercy comes,” Pope Francis said at yesterday’s Regina Caeli (full text, full video). The Pope has donated $500,000 (£387,000) to help migrants stranded in Mexico. Sunday Masses were cancelled throughout Sri Lanka yesterday. New York archdiocese has named 120 clergy “credibly accused” of abuse. Joshua McElwee
Morning Catholic must-reads: 26/04/19
April 26, 2019
Argentine Bishop Enrique Angelelli will be beatified tomorrow. The French bishops have issued a new document on the foundations of Catholic anthropology (introduction). Burundi’s bishops have forbidden speeches at Mass. Christopher Lamb looks ahead to the next conclave. George Weigel comments on the “immediate, volatile and sometime vicious responses” to Benedict XVI’s abuse essay. Cardinal
Morning Catholic must-reads: 25/04/19
April 25, 2019
Sri Lankan Cardinal Malcom Ranjith has said he would have cancelled Easter Masses if bomb warnings had been passed to him. Outspoken Bishop Silvio Báez has left Nicaragua. Rwandan bishops have apologised for calling for the release of prisoners who took part in the 1994 genocide. Peruvian Archbishop José Antonio Eguren has withdrawn a defamation
Morning Catholic must-reads: 24/04/19
April 24, 2019
The Vatican’s new constitution will reportedly create a new “super dicastery” for evangelisation. The US Church has welcomed more than 37,000 new members at Easter Vigil Masses. A court has blocked an order forcing the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) to rename itself the Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine. Ross Douthat asks why the persecution
Morning Catholic must-reads: 02/05/19
April 18, 2019
Archbishop Wilton Gregory has expressed “full support” for an abuse investigation by Georgia’s Attorney General. Authorities in Henan have demolished crosses in an campaign to “sinicize” the Catholic Church. Australia’s bishops have called for an economy of inclusion in a new pastoral letter. Support for church taxes remains strong in six European countries, reports the
Morning Catholic must-reads: 16/04/19
April 16, 2019
Opposing Benedict XVI to Pope Francis is a “false game”, Cardinal Gerhard Müller has said. The general secretary of the Indian Bishops’ Conference has denounced the murder of a Christian by “cow protectors”. Bishop Silvio Báez has urged Nicaraguans to “fight for freedom” before his departing to Rome for security reasons. Chinese authorities have reportedly
Morning Catholic must-reads: 15/04/19
April 14, 2019
At yesterday’s Angelus, Pope Francis urged young people to “pray the rosary for peace, especially for peace in the Holy Land and in the Middle East” (full text, full video). Around 15,000 people took part in a Palm Sunday procession in Jerusalem. Australian journalists and publishers will face court today over their coverage of Cardinal
Morning Catholic must-reads: 12/04/19
April 12, 2019
Archbishop José Gómez will meet Vatican officials to discuss new measures to hold bishops accountable. The world’s bishops’ conferences are reviewing the new draft constitution of the Roman Curia. Postulator Nicola Gori has reported that Carlo Acutis’s body is incorrupt. Archbishop Charles Chaput, Ed Condon, Jason Horowitz, Steve Skojec and Michael Sean Winters reflect on
Morning Catholic must-reads: 11/04/19
April 11, 2019
Benedict XVI has declared that “only obedience and love for our Lord Jesus Christ” can lead the Church out of the abuse crisis in a 6,000-word essay published in Germany (full English text, Rod Dreher, RR Reno, Fr John Zuhlsdorf). The Vatican has launched an investigation into the disappearance of 15-year-old Emanuela Orlandi in 1983.
Morning Catholic must-reads: 09/04/19
April 08, 2019
Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle will wash the feet of young people on Holy Thursday. South Sudan’s leaders are expected to begin their Vatican retreat today. The Pope has recognised the heroic virtues of a nine-year-old Brazilian boy who died of cancer in 1964. Pope Francis has dismissed an Italian priest from the clerical state. Sister
Morning Catholic must-reads: 08/04/19
April 07, 2019
We must drop the “the stones of denigration and condemnation”, Pope Francis said at yesterday’s Angelus (full text, full video). Facebook has temporarily suspended a bishop who defended his mother in a clash with Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte. A Chinese underground bishop who stepped aside for a state-sanctioned bishop has said he is unsure whether
Morning Catholic must-reads: 05/04/19
April 05, 2019
Polish Primate Archbishop Wojciech Polak has criticised a book-burning at a parish in Gdańsk. Patriarch Bechara Boutros al-Rahi has said that “structures of sin” are driving Lebanon to “the brink of economic and financial collapse”. Archbishop Éric de Moulins-Beaufort of Reims is the new president of the French bishops’ conference (French report). Fr Antonio Spadaro
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