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Morning Catholic must-reads: 22/07/10

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

Conference discusses Billings Ovulation Method

Six Catholic doctors and 26 teachers were among those who attended a teacher-training programme in the Billings Ovulation Method (BOM) at Westminster Pastoral Centre

Vatican approves English feast days

The feast days commemorate St Gregory the Great, St Thomas Becket, the English Martyrs and St Augustine of Canterbury

The stunning papal visit exhibition that never was

The V&A is putting on a unique exhibition of Raphael tapestries to coincide with the Pope's trip – but another spectacular show seems to have bit the dust

Nuncio to Iraq named UN permanent observer

Indian Archbishop Francis Assisi Chullikatt takes up key post

The Catholic Herald

The Beatles never entirely shook off the Catholicism of their youth

Their songs included powerful and touching hymns to Mary and to creation

Lord Patten visits papal venues in Birmingham

The organiser of the papal visit enjoyed the sunshine at Cofton Park before visiting Cardinal Newman's private chapel

Morning Catholic must-reads: 19/07/10

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

New cardinals likely to be named

Pope Benedict expected to call a consistory

The Catholic Herald

'Bloody' Mary is the most unfairly treated woman in British history

Visitors from the 1550s would be baffled by the way Henry VIII’s eldest child is portrayed today