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NY auxiliary bishop is credibly accused of sexual abuse

The evidence against Bishop John Jenik is ‘sufficient to find the allegation credible and substantiated’, Cardinal Dolan said

Catholic News Agency

Morning Catholic must-reads: 01/11/18

A daily guide to what's happening in the Catholic Church

Luke Coppen

Halloween is more Catholic than you might think

The holiday presents a great opportunity for evangelization

Charles Coulombe

The Church must be clear: Truth is absolute and sinners must convert

To tell sinners that they have in fact not gone astray is to lead their souls into grave danger

Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith

The mysterious removal of Bishop Holley

The Vatican ousted Martin Holley as Bishop of Memphis, but no one seems sure why

Michael Warren Davis

Brave new Church: can Catholicism be decentralised?

The youth synod’s final report resoundingly endorses ‘synodality’. This could be a positive step – once bishops have worked out what it means

Fr Mark Drew

Vietnam: Replanting ‘Mother Mushroom’

a catholic blogger is sent into exile the vietnamese catholic blogger and activist nguyen ngoc nhu quynh, also known as “mother mushroom”, h...

The Catholic Herald

Ukraine: Vocations nation

in one of europe’s poorest countries, one thing is still doing well: christianity arguably no european country is in a worse economic and po...

Filip Mazurczak

Bishops: Memphis mystery

why did the vatican oust bishop martin holley? on october 24, pope francis removed bishop martin holley from the diocese of memphis without ...

Michael Warren Davis

Higher education: Teach first

a new degree in catholic social teaching is now accepting applicants a few years ago, there was an unexpected wave of interest in catholic s...

Dan Hitchens

Northern Ireland: London calling

mps haven’t given up on introducing abortion and gay marriage to the region say “the northern ireland problem” to followers of british polit...

Dan Hitchens

Youth Synod: Continental shift

african bishops don’t share their western counterparts’ doom and gloom some general assemblies of the synod of bishops have been more closel...

Christopher R. Altieri

In brief

mundelein us bishops to hold retreat on abuse crisis pope francis’s personal preacher will lead a retreat for american bishops early next ye...

Staff writers

Sense and synodality

as the youth synod entered its final week, there was an air of optimism among the bishops. they had spent almost a month listening to the co...

The Catholic Herald

How to decentralise a Church

since his election in 2013, pope francis has often expressed the desire for a more “synodal” style of church life, and commentators on catho...

Fr Mark Drew

Police launch homicide investigation after bones found at Vatican-owned property

Local media have speculated about links to two girls who disappeared 35 years ago

Christopher R. Altieri

Epicentre of low life and high conversation

soho in the eighties by christopher howse, bloomsbury, 266pp, £20 soho in the 1970s, with its strip joints and steamed-up caffs, was an exci...

Ian Thomson

Henry VIII's master of bureaucracy and propaganda

thomas cromwell: a life by diarmaid macculloch, allen lane, 730pp, £30 this new biography is so prodigiously thorough and clever that it is ...

Jack Scarisbrick

The spiritual intensity of a Suffolk weekend

composers by tradition channel their most serious, abstract thinking into symphonies and string quartets. and though benjamin britten was ne...

Michael White

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