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Vatican rejects Cardinal Sarah's ad orientem appeal

Pope Francis met Cardinal Sarah to indicate that no liturgical directives will begin in Advent, according to Vatican spokesman

Catholic News Service

Former Fox News reporter Greg Burke named Vatican spokesman

Spanish journalist Paloma Garcia Ovejero will work alongside Burke as vice director of the Vatican's press office

Junno Arocho Esteves

Cardinal Nichols discourages priests from celebrating Mass ad orientem

The Archbishop of Westminster has told clergy Mass is 'not the time for priests to exercise personal preference or taste'

Madeleine Teahan

Cardinal Pell's role at Vatican reduced after Pope approves decree

A reorganisation of the oversight of the Vatican's financial affairs was announced on Saturday

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Evelyn Waugh's forgotten battle to preserve the Latin Mass

The great novelist, who died 50 years ago, almost became the first president of the Latin Mass Society

St Mary's appoints Churchill expert as new pro vice-chancellor

John Charmley said the university aimed to educate 'the whole person, body and spirit as well as intellect'

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Vatileaks: monsignor and PR expert found guilty of conspiring to leak documents

But Vatican judges acquitted an aide and said they did not have jurisdiction to try Italian journalists

There's a good reason that annulments in India now have no legal force

India's Supreme Court has made technical bigamists of Catholics who have remarried after an annulment. But it has not acted unreasonably