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October 04, 2019
The Holy See has insisted that this week’s police investigation “proves that the new laws of Vatican City State are being applied”. The Vatican has relaxed restrictions on married ex-priests, according to Religion Digital (Spanish text). A parish priest has been found murdered, with his hands and feet tied, in his church in Colombia (Spanish
October 03, 2019
Members of female religious orders have called for women to have voting rights at synods. Fr Paul Béré SJ has said he was “very surprised” to become the first African winner of the Ratzinger Prize. Philip Pullella, Robert Royal and Michael Sean Winters preview the Amazon synod. Rocco Palmo notes that Malta, with fewer than
October 02, 2019
Cardinal Marc Ouellet has said that some approaches to evangelising the Amazon run “the risk of being artificial and syncretistic”. Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor and African theologian Fr Paul Béré SJ have won the Ratzinger Prize. Cardinal Christian Tumi has welcomed Cameroon’s “Major National Dialogue” on the Anglophone crisis. Austen Ivereigh describes the genesis of
September 30, 2019
“Do not be afraid to bear witness to Jesus even where it is uncomfortable or inconvenient,” Pope Francis has told missionaries. Sandro Magister argues that the new movements “are everywhere in decline, in some cases ruinously so”. Barbie Latza Nadeau says “there may be no more important meeting in Francis’s entire papacy” than the Amazon
September 29, 2019
The World Day of Migrants and Refugees affirms that no one should be excluded from society, Pope Francis said at yesterday’s Angelus (full text, full video). Prime Minister Narendra Modi has paid tribute to an Indian Sister who will be canonised on October 13. The Vatican law Vos estis “must be extended” to “other scourges
September 27, 2019
The decriminalisation of abortion in New South Wales is “a defeat for humanity”, Archbishop Anthony Fisher has said. The Pope and the Russian Orthodox Patriarch could meet again in 2021 in Kazakhstan. Pope Francis has hailed the Talitha Kum anti-trafficking network as “an example for the whole Church”. A Sister from Togo has successfully defended
September 26, 2019
Germany’s bishops have voted 51-12 in favour of adopting the statutes of their “synodal assembly”. A bishop in the Philippines has called for children to be vaccinated after the first outbreak of polio in almost 20 years. George Weigel accuses the reconfigured John Paul II Institute of “a craven surrender to the spirit of the
September 25, 2019
A Mexican archbishop has denounced the “shameful corruption” in his country. Officials in Burundi have claimed that bishops are “spitting venomous hatred”. An Indian archbishop has appealed for dialogue with Hindus over “forced conversion” allegations. The former Archbishop of Tokyo has accused the Roman Curia of hindering the Japanese Church. Tom Phillips reports on rising
September 23, 2019
Cardinal Robert Sarah has hailed Christian parents as the “hidden heroes of our time”. Changes to France’s bioethics laws risk “pointing the way to a liberal eugenics”, Archbishop Éric de Moulins-Beaufort has said. The “culture of the adjective has entered the Church”, Pope Francis has told members of the Vatican Dicastery for Communication. Patriarch Bartholomew
September 22, 2019
Jesus assures us that “we are always in time to heal the evil done with good”, Pope Francis said at yesterday’s Angelus (full text, full video). Nigeria’s bishops have criticised “attacks coming from some higher levels of the Church” against Pope Francis. Archbishop Charles Scicluna has delivered a “pointed message” to politicians on Malta’s Independence
September 20, 2019
The Council of Cardinal Advisers has met once again to modify the Vatican’s new constitution. Cardinal Joseph Zen has said that he was monitored by Chinese agents during a trip to Fatima. Fr Raymond de Souza argues that schism is “far more likely” in Germany than the United States. Massimo Introvigne marks the first anniversary
September 19, 2019
For any Catholic to deny the Real Presence is “in a certain sense to deny Jesus”, US Bishop Daniel Jenky has said in a new teaching document (full text). Cardinal Walter Kasper advised the Pope on his letter to German Catholics, reports Lucas Wiegelmann (German text). Zambia’s bishops are launching a Catholic television station. George
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