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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: 07/10/16

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

Luke Coppen

Catholic Church pulls out of national dialogue in Congo

A Church spokesman said President Kabila should not be seeking a third term

Catholic News Service

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Take a look inside this week's Catholic Herald

Staff Reporter

Proposed synod on married priests ‘was voted down by Pope’s advisers’

The synod will instead focus on 'Young People, Faith, and Vocational Discernment'

Staff Reporter

We mothers of children with Down’s syndrome know something the experts never will

A child with Down's syndrome is a living human being, with the same longing to be loved as the rest of us

Francis Phillips

The big story of the past seven days

✣   papal visit draws small crowd what happened? there was a record low turnout for the closing papal mass in georgia. according to the...

Staff writers

The best of the Catholic blogosphere

✣   highlights from the week online trying to find a francis effect has the pope failed? yes, suggests matthew schmitz in the new york ...

Staff writers

Three cardinals back marriage appeal

six bishops, three of them cardinals, have signed a statement reaffirming the church’s teachings on marriage and morality. the declaration o...

Staff writers

In brief

world cup influenced benedict’s resignation mgr georg gänswein, aide to benedict xvi, has said the brazil world cup hastened the pope’s resi...

Staff writers

Our quest to bring ISIS to justice

listening to karlus’s testimony was almost unbearable. when i had asked him how he felt about isis, he had looked at me with his kind, tired...

Alexandra Tompson

Television: Abuse trial that puts us all in the dock

national treasure (channel 4, tuesdays, 9pm) is one of the most catholic dramas we’ve seen in a while. robbie coltrane plays paul finchley, ...

Tim Stanley

Thieves ransack Liverpool's Catholic cathedral

Glass images were smashed and cash stolen early this morning

Madeleine Teahan

War on drugs is destroying Filipino values, says archbishop

Archbishop Villegas says Filipino virtues are being replaced by 'cuss words, lies and vulgarity'

Catholic News Service

Pope urges journalists to always be motivated by 'strong sense of ethics'

In his prayer intentions for October, the Pope asks for prayers for journalists and World Mission Day

Staff Reporter

Kaine and Pence clash over abortion in vice presidential debate

Tim Kaine said he and Hillary Clinton 'support the constitutional right of American women to consult their own conscience'

Staff Reporter

Tonight's Channel 4 programme attacks my pro-life organisation. Here's what they won't tell you

Many pregnant women change their minds about having an abortion. But somehow their stories are ignored

Clare McCullough

Seven Catholic institutions plan to divest from fossil fuel companies

The organisations cited the Pope's encyclical on the environment as the inspiration for the decision

Catholic News Service

US Supreme Court and states to revisit use of death penalty

The Supreme Court cases address 'the brokenness of the judicial system', say Catholic campaigners

Catholic News Service

Pope names successor to retiring Alaska archbishop

Archbishop Roger Schwietz of Anchorage will be replaced by Bishop Paul Etienne of Cheyenne

Catholic News Service

Morning Catholic must-reads: 04/10/16

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

Luke Coppen

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