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Meanwhile: A masterpiece rediscovered, football club denies using exorcist
✣ it’s a long way from venice to sydney. but that seems to have been the journey taken by a hugely important 16th-century drawing of our lad...
Staff writers
The big story of the past seven days: Francis calls for 'all-out-battle' against abuse
what happened? pope francis has called for an “all-out battle” against the sexual abuse of children, following a major vatican meeting on th...
Staff writers
The Holy See is finally calling Maduro's bluff
the italian newspaper corriere della sera recently published a three-page letter purportedly from pope francis to venezuelan president nicol...
The Catholic Herald
March 1, 2019
The Catholic Herald
What happens to priests who father children? Vatican cardinal explains the guidelines
when the vatican congregation for clergy developed guidelines a decade ago for handling cases of priests who father children, the first obje...
Cindy Wooden
Pell's lawyer apologises for describing abuse as 'vanilla sex'
robert richter qc has apologised for his “terrible choice” of words after describing the abuse for which cardinal pell was convicted as “van...
Staff Reporter
Big rise in public lynchings of Christians in India
violent attacks including public lynchings against christians in india are reportedly becoming increasingly common, with international ngos ...
Catholic News Agency
Disaster for Pell as his lawyer appears to concede his guilt
cardinal pell’s plans to appeal his conviction for rape have been thrown into confusion by an extraordinary statement from his own lawyer wh...
Staff Reporter
Vatican announces canonical investigation of Cardinal Pell
the day australian cardinal george pell was jailed in melbourne after being found guilty of child sexual abuse, the vatican announced his ca...
Cindy Wooden
Duterte: Stop threatening priests or 'deal with me'
after calling the country's catholic bishops "useless fools" who should be "killed," philippine president rodrigo duterte has now warned any...
Catholic News Service
Morning Catholic must-reads: 27/02/19
a new survey suggests there is “a striking variance” between catholics attending ordinary and extraordinary form masses ( joseph shaw , stev...
Luke Coppen
Cardinal Pell no longer prefect of Vatican's economy secretariat
alessandro gisotti, interim holy see press office director, confirmed tuesday via twitter that cardinal george pell is no longer prefect of ...
Catholic News Agency
Pell to appeal guilty verdict
cardinal pell has lodged an appeal against his conviction for sexual offences, his lawyers have said. in a statement issued after a court li...
Staff Reporter
Thieves break into Dublin church, steal head of mummy
anglican archbishop michael jackson of dublin said he was shocked after thieves broke into a church in the irish capital, vandalizing the cr...
Michael Kelly
Court finds Cardinal Pell guilty of sexual offences
prosecutors have abandoned a planned second trial against australian cardinal george pell, who was convicted in december 2018 on five charge...
Ed Condon/CNA
Morning Catholic must-reads: 26/02/19
chinese authorities have reportedly blocked an app popular with underground catholics . brazil's national security office has confirmed that...
Luke Coppen
Australian archbishop faces questions over handling of abuse allegations
archbishop mark coleridge of brisbane is being investigated by his former archdiocese over his alleged handling of information on child sex ...
Catholic News Agency
The Church needs transparency. These two cases show it has a long way to go
(rome — 25 february 2019) even before the thing began — whatever the thing was that happened over four days last week and into sunday ...
Christopher R. Altieri
Pope Francis covered up for bishop who had gay porn on his phone, Vatican journalist says
a prominent vatican journalist has accused pope francis of covering up for an argentine bishop who had gay porn on his phone. inés san marti...
Nick Hallett
As the abuse summit closes, what has changed?
(rome — 24 february 2019) the vatican’s four-day “summit” on child protection ended on sunday, with little to show. the three days of the me...
Christopher R. Altieri
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