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Chaldean bishops order priests who fled Iraq to return home

They said priests who left without permission had to 'regularise their status'

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Morning Catholic must-reads: 30/09/16

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Amoris Laetitia is destined to be forgotten

Its ambiguity cannot be retroactively clarified by private letters

Fr Raymond de Souza

The Jesuits’ next chapter

The new superior general must be holy, humorous, a good administrator and able to lead the Society's worldwide efforts for justice

David Inczauskis SJ

The big story of the past seven days

✣   trump names panel of catholic advisers what happened? donald trump has assembled an advisory group of 34 catholics. it includes for...

Medics no longer given cash to judge miracles

doctors who judge whether healings should be declared miracles are no longer to be paid in cash under new norms approved by pope francis. th...

Three more priests are murdered in Mexico

three priests have been kidnapped and killed in mexico in just a few days, raising the death toll of clergy murdered in the country to 15 in...

No change on Communion, says US bishop

bishop thomas olmsted of phoenix, arizona, has said that pope francis’s exhortation amoris laetitia preserves papal teaching that bars commu...

Assisted suicide ‘a barrier to absolution’

the bishops of alberta and the northwest territories have issued pastoral guidelines for clergy dealing with catholics who are considering e...

The Jesuits’ next chapter

a general congregation meeting of the jesuits is always a major event. but this year’s, the 36th in history, is unique in a number of respec...

David Inczauskis SJ