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Saints risk all for love of Jesus, Pope says at canonisation Mass

Pope Francis canonises Paul VI, Oscar Romero and five others

Eastern European bishops want a focus on Eucharist, fatherhood in Youth Synod

One bishop pointed out that the Instrumentum Laboris mentions the sacraments only 8 times

Andrea Gagliarducci/CNA

Bishop Barron at Synod of Bishops: Young people are ‘hungry for mission’

Outreach to young people needs to be accompanied by a call to holiness and conversion, he added

Courtney Grogan/CNA

Oscar Romero canonisation: right saint, wrong place

Romero should have been canonised in San Salvador

Fr Raymond de Souza

At the synod, the Church's culture war looks a lot like class war

Progressive bishops want to replace 'rigid' codes and speak of sexuality 'without taboo'. How very bourgeois

Matthew Schmitz

Give young people authentic message and messengers, archbishop says

Archbishop Leo Cushley said bishops must bring young people to 'the whole of the apostolic faith'

Catholic News Agency

Letters from the Synod-2018: October 12

Reports and Commentary, from Rome and Elsewhere, on the XV Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops

Xavier Rynne II

Archbishop Fisher is right: young people want clear and challenging teaching

The Australian archbishop's speech, in which he plainly confronted the abuse crisis and other failures of leadership, was a breath of fresh air

Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith

Shadow over the synod

The sex abuse crisis is gravely damaging the bishops

Christopher R. Altieri

How the Old Mass came to Balham

St Bede’s has become one of London’s great liturgical churches. The departing parish priest explains how it all began