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Morning Catholic must-reads: 07/02/17

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

Keep searching for unity, Pope tells German Lutherans and Catholics

The Pontiff made a speech to the leaders of the Council of the Evangelical Church in German

South African Jesuits 'disturbed' by 94 patient deaths following neglect

A report has found centres in the Gauteng province failed to provide seriously ill people with enough food and water

Catholic News Service

US Bishops launch campaign urging Trump to protect religious freedom

Bishops post online letter for Catholics to send to the president calling on him to sign executive order

Catholic News Service

Royal commission: Seven per cent of Australian Catholic priests accused of abuse

The statistics were released during the opening of a hearing of Australia's Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse

Associated Press

The Maltese Church once defied secularisation. Now its bishops have surrendered

The Maltese bishops' guidelines on Communion mean that secular culture has triumphed over the Church

Once euthanasia is voluntary, it will become irresistible. Just ask the Dutch

Our task is difficult but urgent: to show that people who are old and ill nevertheless have value

Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith

Order of Malta’s clash with Francis put funding at risk, admits official

The grand hospitaller of the order said donors 'decided maybe not to help us any more'

Junno Arocho Esteves

Doctor ‘asked family to hold down struggling euthanasia victim’

The case will be examined by Dutch prosecutors to see if a crime has been committed

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