Latest News
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Pope to bless mosaic with holy water from Wales
Friday, 3 September 2010The Pope will use water from St Non’s well in Pembrokeshire to bless a new mosaic of St David at Westminster Cathedral
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Archbishop insists that papal Masses will be ‘packed’
Friday, 3 September 2010
Archbishop Nichols rejects reports forecasting low attendance at big papal events
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Oratorian calls for protests over his removal to end
Friday, 3 September 2010
Brother Lewis Berry, who is being moved to South Africa, asks ‘fervently’ for attacks on his superiors to end
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Benedict XVI: I felt ‘hemmed in’ growing up under Nazism
Tuesday, 7 September 2010
Pope Benedict issues his message for World Youth Day 2011
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Secret papal Mass plans left in a pub
Tuesday, 7 September 2010Plans detailing the Pope’s exact movements at Cofton Park were left in a Warwickshire pub and never picked up
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Novena for Benedict XVI’s visit to Britain starts
Tuesday, 7 September 2010
Prayers for the success of the Pope’s visit begin in parishes across England and Wales today
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Popemobile’s route through London is unveiled
Monday, 6 September 2010
Crowds can wave at Pope Benedict XVI as he passes along the bank of the Thames and through Green Park
More News
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Poll: almost half of Mass-goers would attend older form
Friday, 3 September 2010
Poll suggests that 43 per cent of practising Catholics would attend traditional Mass every week if it was offered in their parish
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Pope meets Israeli president
Friday, 3 September 2010
The two men expressed hope that the renewal of talks in Washington would lead to ‘lasting peace’
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Papal visit will be a great Commonwealth event, says Lord Patten
Thursday, 2 September 2010
Visit organiser points out that Benedict XVI was more popular in Australia than the Olympics
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Abbot and Sister take on ‘bear pit’ of atheists in debate over papal visit
Thursday, 2 September 2010London audience backed the motion ‘The papal visit should not be a state visit’
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Benedict XVI gives book-length interview to German journalist
Wednesday, 1 September 2010
It will be the first in-depth interview of the Pope since his election in 2005
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Bishop to miss papal events after breaking his shoulder
Wednesday, 1 September 2010Bishop Logan is ‘deeply sorry’ that he is unable to take part in the visit
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Images of Cofton Park sanctuary put online
Wednesday, 1 September 2010
Computer-generated images show domed stage and sweeping stained glass background
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Cardinal is taped asking abuse victim to keep quiet
Wednesday, 1 September 2010
A spokesman for Cardinal Danneels says his remarks have been taken out of context
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Pope prays for trapped miners in Chile
Monday, 30 August 2010
Miners convert part of their shelter into a shrine as they brace themselves for another four months underground
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Pope discusses Vatican II with former students
Friday, 27 August 2010
The Pope’s former doctoral students were addressed by Archbishop Koch
Comment & Blogs
Morning Catholic must-reads: 07/09/10
By Luke Coppen
‘Why is the Church so hard-hearted as to refuse Holy Communion to remarried divorcees?’
By William Oddie
Peter Mandelson is not wise, old, or grumpy enough to be a national treasure
By Francis Phillips
Morning Catholic must-reads: 06/09/10
By Luke Coppen
If Britain is the geopolitical epicentre of the culture of death, where do we put North Korea and China?
By Stuart Reid
Edmund Adamus said our society was hedonistic, anti-life and anti-family – all true. So why was he slapped down?
By William Oddie
Morning Catholic must-reads: 03/09/10
By Luke Coppen
Debate: Is Britain a moral wasteland?
By The Catholic Herald