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

Cardinal Wuerl acknowledges calls for 'new leadership'

The Archbishop of Washington did not say whether he is considering resigning

Catholic News Agency

Morning Catholic must-reads: 07/09/18

A daily guide to what's happening in the Catholic Church

Luke Coppen

Cover

The Catholic Herald

The big story of the past seven days

✣ viganò and papal aides clash over kim davis saga what happened? the row over the testimony of archbishop carlo maria viganò entered new te...

Staff writers

In brief

washington, dc ‘we need answers’: catholic women appeal to pope francis more than 30,000 catholic women have signed a letter to pope francis...

Staff writers

Roman Curia: Five years on tenterhooks

officials are adrift as the vatican reels from one crisis to the next back in january, the question on everyone’s mind was: will the curial ...

Christopher R. Altieri

Viganò letter: Disunited front

the pope’s american allies don’t seem to be wholly in harmony since pope francis’s election, the us conference of catholic bishops has incre...

Michael Warren Davis

Cartoon: by Kipper Williams

The Catholic Herald

Fr Raymond J de Souza: The pontifical secret after Viganò

whatever the truth or falsity of the claims made by archbishop carlo maria viganò in his “testimony” calling for the resignation of pope fra...

Fr Raymond de Souza

The busy genius with time for the lowly

the world in thirty-eight chapters by henry hitchings, macmillan, 320pp, £16.99 there have been many biographies of dr johnson. indeed, imme...

Jack Carrigan

Dashes, brackets, and Oxford commas

after scanning the contents page of this slim volume, i made my way directly to chapter 17. the title of this chapter, “-ize or -ise”, had s...

Michael Duggan

How to respond

sometimes all you can do is to put your mouth to the dust and wait.” that’s a counsel from the book of lamentations, and while perhaps not t...

Fr Ronald Rolheiser

Burma Cardinal: the 'war' on the Kachin is being overlooked

Cardinal Bo said Kachin state had seen 'villages bombed and burned, women raped, churches destroyed, villagers used as human minesweepers'

Catholic News Service

Morning Catholic must-reads: 06/09/18

A daily guide to what's happening in the Catholic Church

Luke Coppen

Priest thanks Muslims for aiding flood victims at his church in Kerala

Amid flooding which has displaced a million people, Muslims brought food, water and medicine to those sheltering in Fr Puthussery's church

Catholic News Agency

Vatican updates schedule for papal visit to Baltic states

Pope Francis will make a four-day trip to Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia

Cindy Wooden

Morning Catholic must-reads: 05/09/18

A daily guide to what's happening in the Catholic Church

Luke Coppen

Kenya's bishops 'not worried' by breakaway married priests

Some Kenyan priests left in order to marry

Catholic News Service

'Harshest levels' of religious repression across 16 nations

A further 12 nations where repression 'engaged in or tolerated by the government is serious'

Catholic News Service

Morning Catholic must-reads: 04/09/18

A daily guide to what's happening in the Catholic Church

Luke Coppen

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