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

Possible 2017 release for Terrence Malick film on Catholic martyred by the Nazis

Radegund tells the story of Blessed Franz Jägerstätter

Staff Reporter

Morning Catholic must-reads: 17/02/17

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

Luke Coppen

Coptic Christian teacher shot dead in Egypt

Gamal Tawfiq, 50, was shot in the head by two militants on a motorbike who followed him as he walked from home to work

Associated Press

The big story of the past seven days

✣  media storm erupts over bannon and the pope what happened? donald trump’s chief of staff steve bannon has been accused of “carrying ...

Staff writers

The best of the Catholic blogosphere

✣   highlights from the week online why feminists are friars’ new friends a small act of mercy brought female protesters and dominicans...

Staff writers

Priest: prayers to saintly nun saved my life

a glasgow priest whose survival of a “flesh-eating bug” is said to have defied medical explanation has attributed his recovery to the interc...

Staff writers

Francis reveals anti-stress secret

pope francis has said that to retain a sense of peace he writes down all his problems in notes to st joseph. during an audience with religio...

Staff writers

Fine art: How David Hockney escaped naturalism

david hockney, or david mockney, for the purposes of this article, is having a show at the tate britain. he’s got all he asked for – fame, a...

Miguel Cullen

Can fox hunting end the Gibraltar dispute?

footprints in spain by simon courtauld, quartet, £20 ever since henry viii cast off catherine of aragon, we have had an uneasy relationship ...

David Twiston Davies

Welcoming the stranger

in the hebrew scriptures, that part of the bible we call the old testament, we find a strong religious challenge to always welcome the stran...

Fr Ronald Rolheiser

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The Catholic Herald

Morning Catholic must-reads: 16/02/17

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

Luke Coppen

Franciscan friar chosen to lead papal Lenten retreat

Franciscan Father Giulio Michelini will lead meditations on the Gospel of Matthew

Catholic News Service

Priest asks for prayers for thief who assaulted him

Fr Ed Mundwiller was attacked in his local neighbourhood of St Louis, Missouri

Catholic News Service

Morning Catholic must-reads: 15/02/17

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

Luke Coppen

Morning Catholic must-reads: 14/02//17

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

Luke Coppen

The Pope's council have given him their 'full support'. Translation: trouble is brewing

The Pope faces criticisms, including over his handling of the abuse crisis

Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith

Pope Francis praises abuse survivor for breaking silence

The suffering and suicides of people abused by clergy 'weigh on my heart', Francis said

Carol Glatz

Council of Cardinals publicly expresses support for Pope

The members of the international Council of Cardinals began their February meeting expressing their 'full support' of the Pontiff

Cindy Wooden

Pope Francis sending bishop to Medjugorje

Vatican says Bishop Henryk Hoser will not be deciding on the merits of reported apparitions of the Virgin Mary

Associated Press

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