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

Pope Francis tells parishes: the confessional light should always be on

The role of the traditional parish church fiercely defended by Pope Francis

Susan Byron

Bishop of Hong Kong defends Vatican stance on human rights in China

Cardinal John Tong said the Church 'cannot and should not' intervene in political struggles in China

Staff Reporter

Satanic Temple seeks to open after-school clubs across the US

A Satanist group is attempting to start after-school programmes in at least nine school districts

Associated Press

Morning Catholic must-reads: 05/08/16

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

Luke Coppen

New claimant to Boko Haram leadership has pledged to 'blow up every church we can'

New Boko Haram leader announced, with new threats aimed at Christians

Associated Press

Make Oscar Romero a patron saint of WYD 2016, says Panamanian bishop

The martyr, who was assassinated while celebrating Mass, is suggested as patron saint at WYD to be held in Panama

Mark Greaves

Body found of 24-year-old seminarian who drowned

The young man went missing a month ago after rescuing a fellow kayaker from turbulent waters

Catholic News Service

Book review: The modern martyrs we’ve already forgotten

Behind his roll-call of heroic individuals, The God of the Gulag shows how communism finally died from within

Francis Phillips

In brief

abuse claim against cardinal thrown out a french prosecutor has thrown out the case of a cardinal under investigation for alleged failure to...

Staff writers

Overcoming our fear of hell

hell is never a nasty surprise waiting for a basically happy person. hell can only be the full flowering of a pride and selfishness that hav...

Fr Ronald Rolheiser

French Muslims go to Mass in show of unity

in a gesture of solidarity following the killing of a french priest, muslims attended mass in churches and cathedrals across france and ital...

Staff writers

The best of the Catholic blogosphere

✣   highlights from the week online crisis for the jesuits despite reports that the jesuit pope has sparked a growth in jesuit membersh...

Staff writers

Melissa Kite: I’ve had enough of snooty young idealists

six months into marketing my flat, i can no longer bear to read the feedback from viewings. this is because i have had a long stream of unpl...

Melissa Kite

Music: A life-changing triumph in Yorkshire

when ts eliot drew together his sequence of reflections on humanity and time under the title four quartets, it was with reason. structurally...

Michael White

When Catholics knew how to tell a story

a blue whale made its stately way around the stage, and a pair of desperate dodos arrived too late for the ark. the arches of york minster r...

Anselm Audley

Comments of the Week

our parish’s stand against xenophobia sir – in a bold effort of defiance following incidents of hate crime and xenophobia in some parts of t...

The Catholic Herald

The modern martyrs we’ve already forgotten

the god of the gulag, vol 1 and vol 2 by jonathan luxmoore, gracewing, £20 each jonathan luxmoore, a writer who has specialised in church ne...

Francis Phillips

Cover

The Catholic Herald

Morning Catholic must-reads: 04/08/16

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

Luke Coppen

Pope Francis: 'During Auschwitz silence, I prayed for all victims of war and violence'

The Pontiff told the faithful that young people today gave 'strong signs' of hope and brotherhood in a world plagued with 'cruelty'

Staff Reporter

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