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The best of the web: Chinese demolitions, forgotten conservative thinker, Amazon synod protests

September 19, 2019

In China, 18 months of demolition At Asia News, Fr Bernardo Cervellera summarised the situation of Chinese Catholics. It includes “churches closed or destroyed; crosses torn down from bell towers or ripped from the walls of the churches; domes razed to the ground; ancient statues of shrines seized; religious signs removed from inside and outside

Meanwhile: Abba inside the Vatican, ‘Day of Sobriety’

September 19, 2019

You might imagine that Vatican officials would only listen to Monteverdi and Palestrina. But Archbishop Paul Gallagher, the Holy See’s foreign minister and incidentally the highest-ranking Briton in the Vatican, has revealed another side to ecclesiastical taste. According to a Times preview of the BBC’s forthcoming Inside the Vatican documentary, those passing underneath the archbishop’s

The week in quotations

September 19, 2019

“I sensed that this thought came to me from the Holy Spirit” Pope Francis explains why he decided to give a relic of St Peter to the Eastern Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew Letter to the Patriarch “Unfortunate, saddening, and simply untrue” A Planned Parenthood spokeswoman clashes with ex-president Leana Wen, who says she is being held

World news: from St Paul to Salta

September 19, 2019

St Paul, Minnesota First abuse investigation under new bishops’ law An archbishop will investigate cover-up allegations against a local bishop, in the first example of the new “metropolitan model” put in place by Pope Francis earlier this year. Archbishop Bernard Hebda (left) of St Paul and Minneapolis announced that he will lead an inquiry into

The growing worldwide threat to confessional secrecy

September 19, 2019

The Australian state of Victoria has passed a new mandatory reporting law, which does not respect the Seal of the Confessional. The bill had broad support among legislators, and passed the upper house comfortably. Premier Daniel Andrews remarked: “The most important thing is to send a message that the law is to be taken seriously.

Are deacons really ‘celebrating Mass’ in the Amazon?

September 19, 2019

Sandro Magister, the veteran vaticanista for Italy’s L’Espresso, wrote a column last week headlined “In the Amazon Married Deacons Are Already Saying Mass. And the Pope Knows It”. That’s splashy, to say the least. The story got a good deal of the play one might expect, in most of the places one would expect it

Britain will be judged by the way it treats Tafida

September 19, 2019

Last week the High Court heard the tragic case of Tafida Raqeeb, now aged five, who suffered a devastating intracranial bleed on February 9 of this year. She sustained widespread brain damage but is not brain-stem dead and is now on long-term ventilatory support. The doctors at Royal London Hospital wish to discontinue ventilation in

How America embraced Newman

September 19, 2019

The recent news that the Bishop of Northampton has declined to move forward with the cause for the canonisation of GK Chesterton was not well received in the United States. At this year’s annual conference of the American Chesterton Society in Kansas City, the news was met with disappointment by the 500 Chestertonians in attendance.