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The week's reporting from across the Catholic world — what happened, who said what, and what it means.
Pope Francis: Prayer is about God's love, not wordiness
when praying, remember the words of jesus when he taught the ‘our father,’ pope francis said wednesday, meeting god as his beloved child and...
Hannah Brockhaus/CNA
January 4, 2019
The Catholic Herald
Why Taki’s views disgust me
Sohrab Ahmari argues that the veteran Greek playboy has ignorantly misrepresented the New York Times
Sohrab Ahmari
Ouellet letter: US bishops’ vote on abuse reform measures was blocked to allow more discussion
Cardinal Ouellet, prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, said the proposals needed time to 'properly mature'
Catholic News Agency
2018 in review: the Church's annus horribilis
This was the year that the abuse crisis engulfed the Church, and those in power failed to live up to the challenge
Christopher R. Altieri
Vatican spokesman and deputy resign
pope francis has accepted the resignation of greg burke as director of the vatican press office, and the resignation of his deputy paloma ov...
Staff Reporter
O’Malley sent concerns about NY priest to apostolic nuncio after NY Times report
the archbishop of boston this month forwarded to the pope’s u.s. representative concerns sent to him about a new york priest who was in acti...
Catholic News Agency
New York archdiocese issued suitability letter for priest under abuse investigation
the archdiocese of new york told a california college this month that a local priest had never been accused of sexual abuse, even while the ...
Ed Condon/CNA
McCarrick abused youth during confession, lawyer charges
a man who says he was serially sexually abused by archbishop theodore mccarrick testified thursday as part of a vatican investigation regard...
JD Flynn/CNA
Monks attacked during Vienna church robbery
two men robbed the monastery church of the immaculate mary in vienna thursday, according to austrian police, injuring five religious in doin...
Catholic News Agency
Vatican court convicts Italian of money laundering
the vatican city state court sentenced an italian contractor, who had done work for several vatican offices, to 2 1/2 years in jail for usin...
Cindy Wooden
Iraq declares Christmas Day a public holiday
All citizens of the majority-Muslim nation will now celebrate the day to mark 'the birth of Jesus Christ'
Nick Hallett
Priest apologises for funeral homily that focused on suicide
a michigan priest criticised for emphasising suicide in his homily during a recent funeral for an 18-year-old who took his own life has sinc...
Carol Zimmermann
Vietnam could allow the Holy See to appoint a nuncio 'in the near future'
Negotiators are trying to establish full diplomatic relations between the Vatican and the communist state
Carol Glatz
Morning Catholic must-reads: 21/12/18
vietnam has reportedly agreed to allow the holy see to appoint a resident nuncio “in the near future” . pope francis met the nobel prize-win...
Luke Coppen
Does the Christmas classic ‘Baby, it’s Cold Outside’ really promote date rape?
a controversy has erupted on american airwaves: should frank loesser’s christmas classic, baby, it’s cold outside, be banned by radio statio...
Jeff Cimmino
The double message of Christmas
i’ve never been happy with some of my activist friends who send out christmas cards with messages like: “may the peace of christ disturb you...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
The hammer that laid Europe’s foundations
as europe passed the poignant milestone of november 11, it could have escaped no one’s attention what inspired the project to unite the cont...
Ed West
It’s been a bad year for human rights. But there are still reasons to hope
"the people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned.” with those words ...
Benedict Rogers
The plot to depose Henry VIII
if a zealous priest called gregory botolph had guarded his tongue more carefully in holy week of 1540, england might well be a catholic coun...
Jack Scarisbrick
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