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✣ pope accepts cardinal mccarrick’s resignation what happened? pope francis accepted the resignation from the college of cardinals of theodo...

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✣ highlights from the week online the priest sacked for preaching catholicism much is written about the intolerance of students banning what...

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managua tens of thousands rally in support of nicaragua’s bishops a huge crowd of nicaraguans marched in support of their bishops in the cap...

The Pope’s in-tray: Back to work

francis’s packed august schedule includes a daunting trip to ireland pope francis is back to work this coming week, after a month of “stayca...

Christopher R. Altieri

McCarrick scandal: O’Malley’s new challenge

the cardinal’s formidable record on abuse is being tested in 2014, pope francis chose cardinal seán o’malley of boston to head the new ponti...

Michael Warren Davis

Bahrain: Catholics return to the desert

a cathedral is being built in the arabian peninsula there were christians in the arabian desert before the coming of islam: they included bi...

Who’s next?

recent media coverage of gk chesterton’s possible canonisation morphed into speculation as to when he would be made a saint. misunderstandin...

Fr Raymond J de Souza: A promotion for lay people

it was thirty years ago this summer that st john paul ii promulgated pastor bonus, his reorganization of the roman curia, completing the cur...

Fr Raymond de Souza

Matthew Schmitz: The avuncular archbishop

theodore mccarrick did not want to be known as a father. he encouraged young men and boys to call him “uncle”, and called them his nephews i...

Matthew Schmitz

Back to school after Goldman Sachs

a year of celebrations begins at stonyhurst this september, marking the college’s 425th anniversary. founded in 1593 in saint omer, the scho...

Stephen Withnell