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

Philippine Catholic leaders criticise hero's burial for former dictator

Protesters were angered that former President Ferdinand Marcos was was buried in a heroes’ cemetery

Catholic News Service

Planned hardline Muslim rally may be attempt to occupy Parliament building, say Indonesian officials

The Islamic Defenders Front is demanding the arrest of Jakarta's Christian governor

Associated Press

Cardinal Dolan urges stronger action to stop assisted suicide

The Archbishop of New York says seriously ill people require doctors who are 'fully commited' to their welfare

Catholic News Service

Vatican calls for efforts to end forced labour at sea

Cardinal Pietro Parolin recommended coordinated international efforts to end exploitation in the fishing industry

Associated Press

Morning Catholic must-reads: 22/11/16

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

Luke Coppen

Bishops apologise for Church's role in Rwandan genocide

The Church acknowledged that members planned and took part in the genocide, in which more than 800,000 people were killed

Associated Press

Jakarta rally brings thousands onto streets in support of Christian governor

The rally called for unity after the city's popular Christian governor was named a suspect in a blasphemy investigation

Associated Press

Morning Catholic must-reads: 21/11/16

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

Luke Coppen

Washington archdiocese forgives parishes' debt during Year of Mercy

Long-standing debts at 27 parishes are to be substantially reduced

Catholic News Service

Trump’s glitz is a challenge to Church teaching on humility

The president-elect's penthouse, reminiscent of the palaces of Saddam Hussein, must give us all pause

Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith

Pope criticises 'legalism' after cardinals' request for clarification

The Pope spoke out after a letter from four cardinals asked for clarification of Amoris Laetitia

Staff Reporter

Morning Catholic must-reads: 18/11/16

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

Luke Coppen

Pope says Syria has become a 'workshop of cruelty'

Pope Francis tells officials of Caritas Internationalis that the world needs a 'revolution of tenderness'

Carol Glatz

The best of the Catholic blogosphere

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Staff Reporter

Migrants are hiding in fear, says archbishop

archbishop josé gomez of los angeles has called for mercy and an end to deportations as he led religious leaders in an interfaith prayer ser...

Staff writers

Pope rejects idea of ‘reform of the reform’

pope francis has said that the mass reformed at the second vatican council is here to stay and that to speak of the“reform of the reform” is...

Staff writers

The scandal that’s best left to rest

with a sweep of broad brushstrokes, a television documentary last week created such a damning picture of the treatment of young, unmarried m...

Maureen Paton

Comments of the Week

the bbc’s campaign for abortion abroad sir – the case made by robin aitken (feature, october 21) for challenging bbc bias on abortion covera...

The Catholic Herald

Music: A great modernist hymn to the Trinity

running a music festival in london is a hard task, because london is effectively a year-round festival with so much going on that no one not...

Michael White

Pictures of the Week

1 newman catholic college headteacher danny coyle, chaplain kalina boulter and students meet prince william at an event celebrating the livi...

The Catholic Herald

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