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Cardinal Pell's appeal process to begin in June
an australian court announced on wednesday that cardinal george pell's application for leave to appeal his conviction of sexual abuse will b...
Catholic News Agency
Morning Catholic must-reads: 07/03/19
the number of priests worldwide has declined for the first time since 2010 , according to new vatican statistics ( vatican bulletin ). cardi...
Luke Coppen
Pope declines to take up young activist's Lenten vegan challenge
pope francis does not appear to have taken up a young environmental activist’s call to observe a vegan lent. the 12-year-old american girl, ...
Flora Watkins
Morning Catholic must-reads: 06/03/19
the diocesan stage of the cause of fr jacques hamel will be formally closed on saturday, le parisien reports ( french report ). the new mayo...
Luke Coppen
Pell lawyer will remain on legal team, despite report he would quit
robert richter, cardinal george pell's defense lawyer, said tuesday that he has not quit the prelate's legal team. a melbourne daily had ear...
Catholic News Agency
French minister calls on Holy See to revoke nuncio's diplomatic immunity over abuse claims
france's european affairs minister encouraged the holy see last week to aid in an investigation of the apostolic nuncio to france, who has b...
Catholic News Agency
Morning Catholic must-reads: 05/03/19
pope francis has appealed for “a new presence of catholics” in latin american politics. the rome-beijing agreement "will greatly help the ca...
Luke Coppen
Morning Catholic must-reads: 04/03/19
a good person “draws good from his heart and from his mouth” , pope francis said at yesterday’s angelus ( full text , full video ). the pope...
Luke Coppen
‘Disgraceful rubbish’: Video of Pell’s police interview released
a video of cardinal pell’s first police interview over 1996 abuse allegations has been released, showing him describing them as a “completel...
Staff Reporter
'Rot in hell, Pell': Amid the rage, was a fair trial possible?
the last thing a raging fire burning out of control needs is for a jet of petrol to be sprayed on it. but cardinal george pell’s defence cou...
Catherine Lafferty
Police investigate desecration of Virgin Mary statue as hate crime
new york police officials have declared an act of vandalism against a statue at a local catholic church last week to be a hate crime. the in...
Catholic News Agency
Morning Catholic must-reads: 01/03/19
nicaragua’s bishops have called for prayers ahead of new talks between government and opposition leaders. pope francis has chosen an italian...
Luke Coppen
You need to watch this German masterpiece
never look away tells kind of the story that invites superlatives and deserves them. based upon the life of painter gerhard richter, it tell...
Deal Hudson
The war on priestly celibacy
the consensus has it out for priestly celibacy and chastity in catholicism. which means we the faithful, lay and clerical, are called to ral...
Sohrab Ahmari
The best thing that could emerge from the abuse summit
fine words butter no parsnips. nor indeed can jargon take the place of an attempt to serve a better quality of vegetable. at the risk of see...
Fr Dominic Allain
The myth of the Bridge on the River Kwai
to the kwai – and back: war drawings 1939-1945 by ronald searle souvenir press, 308pp, £12.99/$19.99 this is a welcome reprint by souvenir p...
David Oldroyd-Bolt
The row over Franco's body exposes divisions in the Church
controversial plans by spain’s governing socialists to rebury general francisco franco will not be opposed by the vatican, which has now ins...
Jonathan Luxmoore
The trouble with lists of 'credibly accused' priests
frédéric martel’s new book, inside the closet of the vatican, was supposed to expose a “velvet mafia” calling the shots in the eternal city....
Michael Warren Davis
This week's Catholic news from around the world
burbank, california comic book series cancelled after outcry a comic book series has been cancelled after protests from christians. dc comic...
Staff writers
The week in quotations
"one has to report the defects to correct, but when … you make known the defects, you love the church" pope francis on reporting scandals sp...
Staff writers
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