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

Is Jesuit influence growing in the Church? Not necessarily

last week pope francis finally filled an important vatican post that has remained vacant since june 2017. the holy father named fr juan...

The Catholic Herald

The sweet, neglected pastures of Latin

long live latin by nicola gardini, profile, 256pp, £14.99/$26 is latin still alive? yes, there are some intellectuals like benedict xvi who ...

Harry Mount

Does the Vatican's new financial czar have a hope?

if you want to know how the reform of vatican finances is going, two developments are a bellwether: the appointment of fr juan antonio guerr...

Christopher R. Altieri

Britain's angriest Quaker

the controversial historian david starkey was raised in a quaker family and, although he is no longer a believer, i think that quaker backgr...

Mary Kenny

Ethiopia's churches are being targeted – and no one is quite sure why

an outbreak of violence in ethiopia at the end of october has manifested a worrying new trend in one of the world’s most religious countries...

James Jeffrey

Moscow is failing to quell support for the new Orthodox Church of Ukraine

in december last year, patriarch bartholomew i of constantinople recognised an autocephalous orthodox church in ukraine. in doing so, he ris...

Fr Mark Drew

Does Marco Rubio's 'common good capitalism' go far enough?

marco rubio is changing for the better. the man who read atlas shrugged twice in his first state legislative term is now quoting leo xiii in...

Jordan Bloom

Cardinal Nichols at IICSA: A defence of Confession - and an unsettling rift

an earlier version of this article noted that fr gerard doyle had been asked by his superior to inform fr samuel penney that he was about to...

Simon Caldwell

The US bishops' conference rejects a 'myth' about resistance

the us bishops are making their ad limina visits this month, the pilgrimages bishops must make every five years “to the threshold of the apo...

Christopher R. Altieri

World news: from Santiago to Salford

washington, dc rubio calls for ‘common good capitalism’ one of the us’s best-known catholic politicians has called for a new economic model ...

Staff writers

Overlooked: Radio station shares 'new Akita message'

what happened?   a us radio station has claimed to have received a new message from the convent of sister agnes sasagawa of akita, a ja...

Staff writers

The big story: Former Irish president denounces child baptism

what happened?   mary mcaleese , the former president of the irish republic, has criticised the church for ‘imposing’ the sacrament of ...

Staff writers

November 15, 2019

The Catholic Herald

Faith and dying

we tend to nurse a certain naïveté about what faith means in the face of death. the common notion among us christians is that if someone has...

Fr Ronald Rolheiser

Letters: Do not forget the killing of priests

the synod we really need   sir – with all the attention on the amazon synod and the suggestion that married men might be ordained to ad...

The Catholic Herald

The pastoral challenge of the ‘gig economy’

is swearing a moral issue? in the past, we were taught that invoking “the holy name” blasphemously was indeed an offence. but there are so m...

Mary Kenny

The return of the Communion wars

joe biden, a frontrunner for the   democratic party’s presidential  nomination, is a lifelong catholic who has drifted leftward si...

Jordan Bloom

'I expected more': Why whistleblowers are surprised by the Buffalo inquiry

when the vatican announced the new law vos estis lux mundi, reforming the way the holy see investigates claims of abuse cover-up, veteran ch...

Christopher R. Altieri

On money and other matters, it's been a rough few weeks in Rome

the past few weeks have been awfully rough for pope francis, the roman curia, and for church leadership generally, especially on three front...

Christopher R. Altieri

World news: from Brazil to Berlin

washington, dc new rules to protect catholic adoption agencies catholic adoption agencies will be able to follow church teaching without los...

Staff writers

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