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peoria, illinois archbishop sheen’s body will be moved as appeal fails the body of venerable fulton sheen will be moved to peoria, after a l...

The week ahead: 40 hours, Cardinal Arinze and Courage

many churches will hold forty hours’ devotions in the days leading up to the solemnity of corpus christi on sunday, june 23. the devotion co...

Overlooked: Five bishops issue 'declaration of truths'

what happened? cardinal raymond burke and three bishops from kazakhstan have signed a document aiming to affirm traditional church teaching ...

The big story: Vatican department speaks out against 'gender theory'

what happened? the vatican’s education department has issued a new document on gender issues, saying that the trend towards transgender iden...

US bishops vote to create hotline for reporting abuse by bishops

a nationwide third-party system for receiving confidential reports of "certain complaints" against bishops took a step closer to being imple...

Dennis Sadowski

Morning Catholic must-reads: 13/06/19

a poll has found that a quarter of us catholics have reduced their mass attendance because of the abuse crisis ( full report ). the vatican ...

Pope advances sainthood cause for women martyred in Spanish Civil War

on june 12, the vatican congregation for the causes of saints announced that pope francis had moved forward the causes of canonization for e...

Aaron Benavides

The Old Mass ban will hurt the Order of Malta's charism

the grand master of the order of malta has forbidden the extraordinary form: as of monday, we chaplains of the order may only offer the mass...

Fr Edmund Montgomery

Former slave Fr Augustus Tolton moves one step closer to sainthood

fr augustus tolton has been named “venerable” after pope francis recognized his “heroic virtues,” moving him one step closer to sainthood. t...

Aaron Benavides

Tell Vatican to release McCarrick files, lay advisers urge US bishops

advisory bodies to the u.s. conference of catholic bishops called tuesday for the bishops to urge the holy see to make public all documentat...