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April 04, 2019
Archbishop Wilton Gregory is expected to be named Archbishop of Washington today (Michael Warren Davis). South Sudan’s president and opposition leader will attend a “spiritual retreat” at the Vatican next week. The world is “witnessing a continued deterioration” in religious freedom, Cardinal Pietro Parolin has said. The Bulgarian Orthodox Church will not take part in
April 03, 2019
Environmental activist Brother Paul McAuley has been found dead in the Amazon city of Iquitos in Peru. Regular Mass attendance in Australia has fallen from 12.2 per cent in 2011 to 11.8 per cent in 2016, according to new figures. Hindu militants have reportedly ransacked a Catholic school in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
April 02, 2019
Pro-life film Unplanned has made a “strong $6M debut”, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith has led an anti-drugs protest in the Sri Lankan city of Colombo. The Muslim World League’s secretary-general has denied reports of a Vatican-Saudi Arabia deal on building churches. C Colt Anderson and Christopher Bellitto argue that seminaries shouldn’t
April 01, 2019
Pope Francis urged Morocco’s Christian minority to build a “culture of mercy” as he celebrated Mass in Rabat on Sunday (full text, full video). The Pope has appointed a a French Patristics scholar to oversee SSPX talks (Fr John Zuhlsdorf). Mexican drug cartels have left a church riddled with bullets. Egypt has sentenced 30 men
March 29, 2019
Cardinal Reinhard Marx has insisted that the German Church is not seeking “to ‘adapt to the spirit of the times,’ as some people fear”. Peruvian Bishop Kay Schmalhausen has criticised the “metropolitan model” for holding bishops accountable over abuse. Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith has urged Sri Lankan Catholics to demonstrate against the illegal drugs trade. Philip
March 28, 2019
A Chilean appeals court has ruled that the Church must pay around $150,000 each to abuse victims Juan Carlos Cruz, James Hamilton and José Andrés Murillo. A priest has been abducted in Nigeria’s Kaduna State. Almost two thirds of French people think Pope Francis has mishandled the abuse crisis, according to a new poll (full
March 27, 2019
Religious who are “illegitimately absent” from their religious house for a full year will be dismissed following a change to canon law. Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has said he will “kill” clerical abusers. Cardinal Joseph Zen has called for the details of the provisional Vatican-China agreement to be made public. The All India Catholic Union
March 26, 2019
Converts to Christianity are preparing to appeal for religious freedom when Pope Francis visits Morocco this week. A Franciscan friar has won a $1 million teaching prize. Almost two million people have attended pro-life marches in Argentina. Brendan Cole investigates a spate of church desecrations in France. Massimo Faggioli argues that “a whole system for
March 25, 2019
Pope Francis urged Catholics to avoid spiritual laziness in his Angelus address yesterday (full text, full video). A priest stabbed at Mass in Montreal on Friday is reportedly “eager to go back to work”. Cardinal Willem Eijk has rejected plans to sell his cathedral in Utrecht. A German cathedral has agreed to return a painting
March 22, 2019
Cardinal Stanisław Dziwisz has defended St John Paul II’s handling of abuse cases (full statement). A Capuchin superior has been killed in Cameroon. The oldest living US Catholic bishop has died aged 97. A crucifix that has hung in Montreal’s City Hall since 1937 is reportedly being removed. Rocco Palmo considers the next Archbishop of
March 21, 2019
Catholics have abandoned prayer and replaced it with “the evil of efficient activism”, Cardinal Robert Sarah says in a new book (French extract). Indian police have charged a priest with using a forged document to tarnish the reputation of Cardinal George Alencherry. It is immoral for Catholics “to see in the migrant an enemy”, the
March 20, 2019
Pope Francis has recognised seven Romanian bishops killed under communism as martyrs. Kazakhstan’s bishops have issued a statement of support for embattled nuncio Archbishop Francis Chullikatt. The Archdiocese of Milwaukee has said it is renaming buildings named in honour of two previous archbishops. John Schwenkler marks the centenary of “one of the most brilliant and
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