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

Morning Catholic must-reads: 08/03/17

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

Luke Coppen

Morning Catholic must-reads: 07/03/17

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

Luke Coppen

Cardinal Müller: Vatican officials aren't resisting Pope's reforms on abuse

The Vatican doctrinal chief was responding to criticism by abuse survivor Marie Collins

Junno Arocho Esteves

Catholics in Egypt are sheltering Orthodox families fleeing ISIS

A Catholic spokesman says ISIS is now 'strongly entrenched' in the North Sinai region

Jonathan Luxmoore

Morning Catholic must-reads: 06/03/17

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

Luke Coppen

The media’s moment of truth

Mainstream news sources used to define reality. Now that their dominance is ending, Christians face a new culture war

Maggie Gallagher

Patriarch Kirill: chasing ‘likes’ on social media is a disease

The Russian Orthodox leader said selfie taking can lead to 'sinful thought'

Staff Reporter

Salesians to pray for Indian priest abducted a year ago

Fr Tom Uzhunnalil was kidnapped in Yemen in an attack that left at least 16 dead

Catholic News Service

What’s inside this week’s magazine?

Take a look inside this week's Catholic Herald

Staff Reporter

Wavering on abuse?

this is a dangerous moment in the global struggle against clerical abuse. there is a growing perception that, after almost two decades of co...

The Catholic Herald

Cardinal: I fear Rome will betray the faithful

cardinal joseph zen has said he fears the vatican will betray the underground church in china by pursuing a deal with the government. in an ...

Staff writers

In brief

pope ‘helping sspx to buy church in rome’ pope francis has played a “decisive role” in helping the society of st pius x buy a church in rome...

Staff writers

The media’s moment of truth

in 2010, benedict xvi gave an address at westminster hall on what he called “the real challenge for democracy”. he told the assembled politi...

Maggie Gallagher

Fine art: Celebrating the imperfect world of Paolozzi

eduardo paolozzi whitechapel gallery, london, until may 14 it’s great when an artist’s work can be seen by millions of people in their every...

David V Barrett

Theatre: Hillary lookalike brings down Caesar

as the audience arrived at this modern-day production of julius caesar they were greeted with television images of caesar’s conquest of “bar...

Alexander Jolliffe

Pastor Iuventus

my first visit to liverpool afforded me enough time to visit the two cathedrals. i liked “paddy’s wigwam” much more than i expected to. i ca...

Pastor Iuventus

The nature of virtue and sin

there’s an axiom which says that nothing feels better than virtue. there’s a deep truth here, but it has an underside. when we do good thing...

Fr Ronald Rolheiser

Cover

The Catholic Herald

We can no longer pretend that the Vatican is getting to grips with the abuse crisis

The Pope's commission has failed to deliver. Marie Collins's resignation is just the latest example

Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith

US cardinal tells priests to turn away immigration officers without warrants

Cardinal Cupich's advice came after Donald Trump began a crackdown on illegal immigrants

Staff Reporter

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