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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: 19/10/16

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

Luke Coppen

Patriarch Kirill concludes visit to UK amid criticism

The patriarch met the Queen and Archbishop of Canterbury during his time in London

Staff Reporter

Church in Spain may be fined over 'noisy bells'

Chimes at the Our Lady of the Assumption Church, in Mostoles, exceed permitted levels, according to officials

Associated Press

What the Catholic Church can teach Islam about responding to atheists

Unlike the lynch mobs of Bangladesh, the Church has nothing to fear from modern secularism

Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith

Iraqi Christians cautiously welcome start of battle to push ISIS from Mosul

Aid workers say the assault on the city is 'just the first of several phases' paving the way for Christians to return to their homeland

Catholic News Service

Morning Catholic must-reads: 18/10/16

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

Luke Coppen

Vatican sends emergency funding to Haiti following Hurricane Matthew devastation

The donation of $100,000 is a 'concrete expression of Pope Francis's spiritual closeness and fatherly support'

Catholic News Service

Catholic leaders in Nigeria welcome release of 21 girls kidnapped by Boko Haram

Cardinal Okogie and two bishops called on the Nigerian government to focus on securing the release of the remaining Chibok girls

Catholic News Service

Iraqi forces launch military push to drive ISIS from Mosul

Iraq's prime minister announced the start of the operations, backed by US-led coalition air and ground support, on state television

Associated Press

Morning Catholic must-reads: 17/10/16

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

Luke Coppen

Former Democrat strategist John Halpin defends leaked 'anti-Catholic' emails

John Halpin said the scandal the emails have evoked was 'fake'

Madeleine Teahan

Catholic convert Mary Seacole is Google's daily doodle

Seacole converted to Catholicism late in life, and is buried in St Mary’s cemetery, Kensal Green

Staff Reporter

Catholic bishops condemn 'ugly' and 'anti-Catholic' emails between Clinton team

Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia called the emails 'contemptuously anti-Catholic'

Madeleine Teahan

Evangelical leaders urge bishops not to change church teaching on gay relationships

More than 80 evangelical leaders in the UK have written to the College of Bishops

Staff Reporter

Morning Catholic must-reads: 14/10/16

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

Luke Coppen

The new global battle over abortion

The simple clash between pro-choice and pro-life camps is giving way to a more complex but no less ferocious struggle

Dennis Sewell

The new global battle over abortion

from poland to texas, from chile via indiana to channel 4’s dispatches, the issue of abortion seems to have recovered its political salience...

Dennis Sewell

How 13 cardinals changed the course of history

The letter that proved to be the turning point showed the Holy Spirit was at work in a most unexpected way

Fr Raymond de Souza

Red hats everywhere

on the flight home from azerbaijan earlier this month, pope francis summed up his approach to picking cardinals. “a little bit of everywhere...

The Catholic Herald

Pope prays amid rubble left by earthquake

pope francis made a surprise visit to the site of a devastating earthquake in central italy last week and prayed silently and alone amid the...

Staff writers

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