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Order of Malta’s new leader promises to ‘strengthen governance’
May 12, 2017
With the Order's growth comes greater responsibility, said Lieutenant of the Grand Master Fra' Dalla Torre
What’s inside this week’s magazine?
May 11, 2017
Take a look inside this week's Catholic Herald
Saint of the week St Isidore the Farmer (May 15)
May 11, 2017
Farmer and husband On March 12 1622, Pope Gregory XV canonised five great saints: St Ignatius and St Philip Neri, founders of the Jesuits and the Oratory respectively; Francis Xavier, the pioneering missionary to the East; St Teresa of Avila, reformer of the Carmelites; and a Spanish farm labourer of the 12th century, who went to
News in brief
May 11, 2017
Coptic Christian shot dead in latest attack Militants shot a Coptic Christian man dead outside his barbershop on Saturday in Egypt’s North Sinai region. Nabeel Saber Fawzi, 40, had left the region three months previously because of the terror threat, but had reportedly returned to earn money for his family. Filipino Catholics in death penalty
Boko Haram frees 82 schoolgirls
May 11, 2017
Eighty-two of the schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram three years ago have been released. They were among 276 girls taken from their school in Chibok in north-east Nigeria in April 2014. The girls, most of them Christians, were forced into marriage with their Islamist captors. Some have given birth to children. It is believed that
Cardinal who converted captors declared Venerable
May 11, 2017
Pope Francis has signed a decree declaring Vietnamese Cardinal François Nguyen Van Thuan as Venerable. The decree confirms that Cardinal Van Thuan – who spent 13 years in jail, nine of which were in solitary confinement – lived a life of heroic virtue. During those years he clandestinely ordained priests, distributed Communion to Catholic prisoners,
Vatican investigates order over euthanasia
May 11, 2017
The Vatican is investigating the decision of a group of psychiatric care centres run by a Catholic religious order in Belgium to permit doctors to perform euthanasia of “non-terminal” mentally ill patients on its premises. Brother René Stockman, superior general of the Brothers of Charity, told the Catholic News Service (CNS) that Cardinal Pietro Parolin,
Coptic Pope Tawadros II visits flock in Britain
May 11, 2017
Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawad­ros II arrived in Britain for his first pastoral visit last Friday. He visited Coptic parishes across the country, officiated at liturgical services and perf­ormed several consecrations. Bishop Angaelos, General Bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the UK, accompanied Pope Tawadros throughout his stay. Speaking ahead of his visit, the Coptic
The big story of the past seven days
May 11, 2017
✣ Trump to meet Pope Francis for first time What happened? The Vatican has confirmed that Pope Francis will meet President Trump later this month. Trump will visit Israel and Saudi Arabia before going to the Vatican, then on to Brussels for a Nato summit and then Sicily for a G7 meeting. The papal audience will
Bishop: the West Country is mission territory
May 11, 2017
Bishop Mark O’Toole of Plymouth has called on every Catholic in his diocese to be a “disciple-making disciple”. In a pastoral message, the bishop noted that less than one per cent of the population in the region were church-going Catholics. This, he said, was “something akin to the percentages in countries like Pakistan or Myanmar
Archbishop: we’re open to grammar schools
May 11, 2017
The Church is open to the idea of creating new grammar schools, the Archbishop of Liverpool has said. In an interview with the Guardian, Archbishop Malcolm McMahon said the Church was “not anti-grammar schools”, explaining that there were already seven Catholic grammars and the Church welcomed “diversity of provision that promotes parental choice”. The archbishop,
READ: Pope Francis’s prayer at the site of the Fatima apparitions
May 11, 2017
The Pope will pray to the Virgin Mary to 'help us follow the example of Blessed Francisco and Blessed Jacinta'
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