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Meanwhile... Cardinal climbs down manhole

a polish cardinal has provoked anger from italy’s deputy prime minister after climbing down a manhole to restore electricity to a state-owne...

The Best of the Web: March for Life, Fatima and comedy

marching for life and a positive future on the letters page of the financial times, john green took issue with another letter-writer, barbar...

Overlooked: Pope dampens expectations of women deacons

what happened? pope francis has disappointed campaigners for women deacons, saying that the commission he appointed to study the subject was...

The Catholic Herald

The Big Story: Vatican introduces new law on reporting abuse

what happened? whistleblowers will be protected and bishops given extra scrutiny under new laws promulgated by pope francis last thursday. v...

The Catholic Herald

Vos estis: revolution and realism

last week the vatican announced with much fanfare a new law concerning clerical abuse. the law, issued via the document vos estis lux mundi ...

The Catholic Herald

The time to keep silence is over

one of the most interesting, and largely overlooked or at least under-noticed, points of pope francis’s new apostolic letter motu proprio , ...

Christopher R. Altieri

Diocese 'surprised' by police search in abuse investigation

a spokeswoman for the diocese of dallas has said they were surprised by a police search of three properties. police executed search warrants...

Ontario court: Doctors must refer patients for abortion, assisted suicide

ontario’s highest court has ruled that doctors who object to procedures such as abortion and assisted suicide must refer patients to another...

Catholic News Agency

Four more Burkina Faso Catholics killed in new attack

just one day after six catholics were murdered by gunmen in burkina faso, four more catholics were shot and killed in the northwest african ...

Catholic News Agency

Morning Catholic must-reads: 16/05/19

notre-dame cathedral has received only  13.5 million of the promised billion euros for reconstruction, archbishop michel aupetit of par...