The abuse crisis is the Church’s 9/11, Archbishop Georg Gänswein has said (Rod Dreher).

Fifty-four per cent of Americans have an unfavourable view of the Church, according to a new poll.

Chinese authorities have banned online evangelisation.

Ed Condon considers what the Vatican can clarify about the McCarrick scandal.

RR Reno argues that McCarrick’s rise to power is “evidence of moral resignation”.

Jordan Grantham profiles the “most senior laywoman in the Vatican in the 20th century”.

And Fr John Zuhlsdorf witnesses a remarkable moment at the newly consecrated Abbey Church of Our Lady of Ephesus.

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