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The best of the web: Sign language, papal press conferences and Twitter's demons

clerics who helped create sign language for millennia, wrote inés antón dayas at national geographic, those “with hearing impairments encoun...
Staff writers

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...
Staff writers

Hurrah for the language of prostitutes, beggars, pimps – and bishops

the vatican unveiled its latest innovation last saturday: a news bulletin spoken entirely in latin. hebdomada papae (“the pope’s week”) is a...
The Catholic Herald

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 ...
Luke Coppen

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

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...
Matt Hadro/CNA

US and English bishops welcome Vatican document on gender ideology

catholic bishops in the us, england and wales welcomed the vatican's statement that gender ideology is opposed to faith and reason, and that...
Elizabeth Bachmann

Morning Catholic must-reads: 12/06/19

the first mass since fire broke out in april will be celebrated at notre-dame on june 15 . indian police have exhumed the body of a bishop w...
Luke Coppen

More than a century later, Sagrada Familia gets building permit

after 137 years of ongoing construction, barcelona's sagrada familia received a building permit on friday. construction on the basilica is e...
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