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Meet Sweden's first ever cardinal

The Bishop of Stockholm receives the red hat on Wednesday 28 June 2017

Karl Gustel Wärnberg

Vatican expresses 'grave concern' over missing Chinese bishop

Bishop Peter Shao Zhumin was taken 'on a trip' by officials and prevented from assuming diocesan duties

Catholic News Service

Clergy in Middle East must be the 'last among the least', says Pope

Francis urges priests and bishops to maintain 'evangelical closeness' to their flocks

Junno Arocho Esteves

Pope seeks to encourage Colombian reconciliation in forthcoming trip

The Pope will also celebrate Mass in Bogota's Simon Bolivar park that is expected to draw up to a million people

Associated Press

Vatican's Jacobite treasures go on display in Edinburgh museum

Artefacts are on loan to the Museum of Scotland for a new exhibition about Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobites

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Dutch royals pick up 400-year-old family heirloom during Vatican visit

William of Orange's baton, lost during the 16th-century Dutch War of Independence, had been housed in a Jesuit convent in Spain

Why is Pope Francis staying away from Argentina?

By January next year, the Pope will have visited nearly every country in South America - apart from his homeland

Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith

A broken system

the writer flannery o’connor once quipped that “the church’s motto is the wrong man for the job”. she was expressing a common complaint amon...

The Catholic Herald

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