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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: 05/07/10

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

Luke Coppen

Augsburg's confessions: the strange case of Bishop Mixa

The bizarre case of a bishop at the heart of the German hierarchy's fiercest public fight

Anna Arco

Sporting priest looks back

Fr John Williams marks 50 years of priesthood. He nearly had a career as a football player

Staff Reporter

Notre Dame athletics team triumphs a second time

Notre Dame under-12 athletics team won nine medals and became champions for the second year in a row

Staff Reporter

The police must justify the raid on the Belgian Church

The Church’s annus horribilis continues

The Catholic Herald

Pope deplores police raid on Belgian Church

Police opened tombs, searched the home of a retired cardinal and detained bishops for nine hours

Staff Reporter

New head for ecumenism department

Swiss Bishop Kurt Koch named to major curial post

The Catholic Herald

Morning Catholic must-reads: 01/07/10

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

Luke Coppen

Sharp rise in cases of euthanasia in Holland

Euthanasia cases in Holland have risen by a massive 13 per cent in the last year, new figures have revealed

Simon Caldwell

Corruption probe reaches Cardinal Sepe

The cardinal Archbishop of Naples will cooperate with a corruption investigation, the Vatican has said

Ed West

Keeping up with the Peter Joneses

Cristina Odone meets a Catholic headteacher who is performing wonders at a school for the less affluent residents of Kensington and Chelsea

Cristina Odone

Catholic player is selected

Cardinal O'Brien with Fr Simon Harkins and his loving parents Jim and Betty Harkins

The Catholic Herald

Donkey born at Wintershall

Talitha, pictured right, is the filly who was recently born on the Wintershall estate

The Catholic Herald

More stood against the tyranny of ego

This year's feast of St Thomas More has more significance than ever, says Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith

Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith

Leeds bishop plans to almost halve number of parishes

Bishop Arthur Roche of Leeds has announced a programme of church mergers and closures that will cut the number of parishes in his diocese almost by half

Mark Greaves

Archbishop: organisers will try to keep to £7m budget for papal visit

Bishops have promised to operate within the original £7million budget planned for the papal visit, despite reports of soaring costs

Anna Arco

Pope appeals for peace during Cyprus visit

Pontiff preaches message of reconciliation as tensions in eastern Mediterranean escalate

Staff Reporter

Time to stop the Christian exodus from the Middle East, says Vatican

The plight of Christians in the Middle East is threatened by an "extremist current" of "political Islam" and is being ignored by the world, the Pope has said ahead of a new Vatican report

Ed West

French nun said her life 'changed totally' since she was healed

Sister Marie Simon-Pierre was cured of aggressive Parkinson's disease after her order prayed to John Paul II

Staff Reporter

Peter Thiel brings Antichrist lectures to Rome

American technology investor Peter Thiel has been delivering a series of private lectures in Rome on the theme of the Antichrist and the future of western civilisation, drawing attention from Italian media and journalists

Niwa Limbu

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