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Fr Raymond de Souza
Viganò vindicated?
according to the organisers, the recent vatican sexual abuse summit was aimed at changing a mindset more than specific procedural reforms. y...
Pope Francis got it right on Cardinal Barbarin
pope francis did the right thing in refusing to accept the resignation offered by cardinal philippe barbarin of lyons after his conviction b...
Cardinal Danneels: the man who tried to surf a tsunami
a titan of the european church since the late 1970s, godfried danneels died as a symbol of an exhausted liberal catholicism resuscitated by ...
Pell, Barbarin and the need for canon law
the legal cases of three cardinals – theodore mccarrick, george pell and philippe barbarin – are a test of the church’s attitude towards her...
Vatican financial reform is in tatters
there is a classic episode of yes minister in which jim hacker is exasperated that a newly built hospital is fully staffed with some 500 adm...
Will the abuse summit be a turning point for the Church?
the vatican’s clerical abuse summit was many things at the same time, some of them contradictory. the summit was the sixth major initiative ...
Behind the abuse crisis, a crisis of governance
the sexual abuse summit’s second full day will be february 22, feast of the chair of st peter, the liturgical commemoration of the petrine o...
Courage and diplomacy in the UAE
it’s only because conditions elsewhere in the muslim world are so much worse that the united arab emirates appears to be a land of “toleranc...
World Youth Day offered glimpses of the Church at her best
world youth day appeared, even for those of us who watched from afar, to be the church at her best – joyous, united, drawing energy for evan...
Why the Vatican's abuse summit is doomed
a month away from the vatican’s sexual abuse summit and the smell of failure is in the air, emanating not from the holy father’s critics but...
The Holy See now looks diplomatically isolated
pope francis chose multilateralism as the theme for his annual address to the diplomatic corps, delivered on january 7. two days before that...
The Church must stop promoting people just to get them out of the way
last week, i argued that the specifics of the accusations made by archbishop carlo maria viganò were less important than the reform of cleri...
The Church has to ditch the culture that sees no evil
the most overlooked story of 2018 might become the most important story of 2019 and many years beyond. the central question that emerged wit...
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