Catholic News

Turkey gives early release to man convicted of murdering priest

Witnesses say 16 year-old Oguzhan Akdin shouted 'Allahu Akbar' while he shot the priest twice in the head
Catholic News Service

Morning Catholic must-reads: 31/08/16

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

Syrian patriarch fears Christianity is being wiped out in Middle East

Patriarch Aphrem II of the Syriac Orthodox Church has urged Western governments to tighten border controls to curb movement of terrorists
Susan Byron

Former Vatican official begins prison sentence for leaking confidential documents

Mgr Lucio Vallejo Balda was convicted of leaking documents to Italian journalists
Catholic News Service

French minister: 'We are at war with an enemy trying to pit Muslims against non-Muslims'

France's Interior Minister is mounting a bid to unite Muslims and non-Muslims in France as tensions rise following the 'Burkini ban'
Associated Press

What is the 'ordinary magisterium'? A brief history of a disputed idea

History suggests Cardinal Burke is right about the authority of Amoris Laetitia
Kurt Martens

Newly ordained Boston bishops to look out for 'the lost sheep'

Bishops Robert Reed and Mark O’Connell were ordained at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston
Catholic News Service

Morning Catholic must-reads: 30/08/16

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

The burkini, unlike nuns' habits, is a challenge to the French way of life

Are the French authorities right to try and ban it? I confess to being a bit torn on this one
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith

Under today's laws, Wilde's relationships with boys would have earned him a harsher sentence

The law in Wilde's time was not overly concerned with the age of his sexual partners
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith