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The week's reporting from across the Catholic world — what happened, who said what, and what it means.

Morning Catholic must-reads: 16/01/20

a bishop has defended a catholic parish’s offer to host the consecration of a female episcopalian bishop . a pentecostal pastor overseeing a...

Luke Coppen

Pope appoints first woman to Vatican foreign ministry post

pope francis has named francesca di giovanni, a longtime vatican official, as an undersecretary in the vatican's foreign ministry office, ma...

Junno Arocho Esteves

Brooklyn diocese releases video of man 'desecrating' altar during Mass

the diocese of brooklyn has responded to an act of vandalism at a parish this past sunday, and released a video showing a man “desecrat...

Catholic News Agency

Morning Catholic must-reads: 15/01/20

the apostolic exhortation on the amazon synod will be released “by the end of this month or in early february” , cardinal cláudio hummes has...

Luke Coppen

Cardinal Pell transferred to new maximum-security prison

cardinal george pell has reportedly been transferred out of the melbourne prison in which he has been incarcerated for more than a year&nbsp...

Catholic News Agency

Four seminarians abducted in Nigeria

four seminarians, between the ages of 18 and 23, were abducted last week from their seminary in kaduna, in northwestern nigeria. pius kanwai...

The Catholic Herald

Morning Catholic must-reads: 14/01/20

the number of south korean catholics increased by 49 per cent between 1999 and 2018, a new study has found. apostolic nuncio archbishop giam...

Luke Coppen

Vatican: Pope Francis not in favor of optional priestly celibacy

a vatican spokesman has said that pope francis’ position on priestly celibacy is “known,” quoting the pontiff’s remarks in a january 2019 pr...

Hannah Brockhaus/CNA

Benedict and Sarah back Francis's position on priestly celibacy. Media storm ensues

the vatican’s communications outfit scrambled on monday to catch up with a media storm surrounding news two priests have written a book defe...

Christopher R. Altieri

Planned Parenthood is worried. And it should be

planned parenthood released their annual report on monday. the company performed 345,672 abortion procedures in the 2018-2019 fiscal year— n...

C C Pecknold

We used to believe bishops told the truth. What happened?

one of the biggest stories of 2019 took place exactly a year ago. the diocese of pittsburgh confirmed that cardinal donald wuerl of washingt...

Fr Raymond de Souza

Will life get worse for India's Christians in 2020?

most christians in india will remember the year 2019 as challenging, to say the least. religious minorities in general and christians specif...

Andreas Thonhauser

Who can replace Cardinal Sodano as dean?

an apostolic letter which tweaked the role of the dean of the college of cardinals was one of two moves at the end of 2019 which made it cle...

Christopher R. Altieri

World news: from Mexico City to Maiduguri

washington, dc supreme court considering louisiana abortion law more than 200 senators and members of congress have signed an amicus brief s...

Staff writers

Overlooked: Twenty-nine missionaries killed in 2019

what happened? according to the vatican’s missionary agency fides, 29 missionaries were killed around the world last year. of these, 18 were...

Staff writers

The big story: Pope apologises for slapping woman's hand

what happened? pope francis has apologised for slapping the hand of a woman who reached out and grabbed him on new year’s eve. film of the i...

Staff writers

Chile: a wake-up call for the global Church

chile is the new ireland: a once proud catholic nation dramatically turning its back on the church. a survey by the pontifical catholic univ...

The Catholic Herald

January 10, 2020

The Catholic Herald

Tafida Raqeeb moved from intensive care unit in Italian hospital

a five-year-old british girl, whose parents won a legal battle to take her to italy for medical treatment, has been moved out of intensive c...

Hannah Brockhaus/CNA

Bishop suspends sign of peace and chalice after flu outbreak

bishop robert deeley of portland issued a directive on thursday suspending the distribution of communion under both species and the exchange...

Catholic News Agency

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