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

Don’t turn against refugees, German Church urges after axe attack

Spokesman for Würzburg diocese says the attack should not be used 'as a general indictment against refugees'

Jonathan Luxmoore

Morning Catholic must-reads: 22/07/16

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

Luke Coppen

Like the Fatima visionaries, we should meditate on hell

Reflecting on the horrors of hell can help us to avoid ending up there

Donal Anthony Foley

Pope Francis marries young deaf couple at chapel in his own residence

The Pope last presided over a wedding two years ago

Catholic News Service

Word This Week

The Seventeenth Sunday of the Year: Gen 18:20-32; Col 2:12-14; Lk 11:1-13 (year c)

Bishop David McGough

A turning point in the Amoris debate

in the three months since its publication, the pope’s exhortation amoris laetitia has been described as brilliant, erroneous, confusing, gro...

Dan Hitchens

Scholars: Amoris Laetitia needs to be clarified

forty-five theologians and clergymen have written to cardinals asking them to request a clarification from pope francis that amoris laetitia...

Staff writers

The best of the Catholic blogosphere

✣   highlights from the week online germany: the good news new figures suggest the german church is undergoing a steep decline. accordi...

Staff writers

The big story of the past seven days

✣   trump picks ‘evangelical catholic’ as deputy what happened? donald trump selected mike pence as his running mate for the republican...

Staff writers

Dragon’s den

pope francis gave one of the most puzzling interviews of his pontificate back in january. speaking to asia times, in what was billed as his ...

Staff writers

Cover

The Catholic Herald

Dennis Sewell: The danger of manufactured grievances

among the “burning injustices” identified by theresa may on the steps of downing street on her first day in her new job was “if you’re black...

Dennis Sewell

Word This Week

the seventeenth sunday of the year gen 18:20-32; col 2:12-14; lk 11:1-13 (year c) every real relationship must find expression as the one re...

Bishop David McGough

There was no fudge at Chalcedon

ecce homo: on the divine unity of christ by aaron riches, eerdmans, £21.99 aaron riches is unflinchingly orthodox when it comes to christolo...

Jonathan Wright

Seminarian dies rescuing woman

brian bergkamp, a seminarian from the diocese of wichita, has died after saving the life of a woman who fell into a river. the 24-year-old w...

Staff writers

Archdiocese prepares to open Cause of Romano Guardini

The 20th-century German theologian has influenced both Benedict XVI and Pope Francis

Staff Reporter

Miracles boldly go where Star Trek can't

Does the attempt to explain away miracles prevent us from fully embracing the love of God?

Fr Andrew Pinsent

Morning Catholic must-reads: 20/07/16

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

Luke Coppen

Ex-soldier who killed Guatemalan bishop dies in prison riot

Byron Lima was imprisoned for the murder of Bishop Juan Jose Gerardi, who was a critic of military abuses during the country's civil war

Associated Press

Fr Lombardi: a tireless servant of the Church

In his time as Vatican spokesman, Fr Federico Lombardi has encountered moments of great joy but also times which have required sensitive diplomacy

Sister Janet Fearns

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