Morning Catholic must-reads: 25/09/14
The Church must help to overcome “suspicion and prejudice” against immigrants, the Pope has said in his message for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees in January (full text). Francis told Spanish...
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European bishops have marked the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I with a pilgrimage to Verdun (photos). Remarried Catholics cannot receive Communion unless they abstain “from the acts...
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India’s foreign minister will lead the country’s delegation to Mother Teresa’s canonisation on September 4. A Chinese bishop who spent 35 years in prison, under house arrest and undergoing forced...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 28/11/16
Advent is an invitation “to not be dominated by the things of this world”, the Pope said at yesterday’s Angelus (full text, full video). Former Jesuit Father General Fr Peter-Hans Kolvenbach has died...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 29/11/16
Physicist Stephen Hawking met Pope Francis at a scientific gathering at the Vatican yesterday (video, full text). A priest in Aleppo has asked his “powerless and fearful” flock to pray for peace during...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 16/11/17
The removal of Robert Mugabe is “an opportunity for the birth of a new nation”, Zimbabwe’s Church leaders have said. The Pope has urged Catholics to pray silently before Mass. John Allen asks if...
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The Pope has told the people of Bangladesh that he will bring Christ’s “message of reconciliation” when he visits them this month. Pope Francis denounced “ideological colonisation” in yesterday’s...
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A priest has gone missing in Bangladesh on the eve of the Pope’s visit. The Russian Orthodox Church added 10 dioceses in 2016, Patriarch Kirill has said. Bishops in the Democratic Republic of the Congo...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 27/02/18
The Pope is reportedly preparing a new document “against neo-Pelagianism”. Mgr Alfred Xuereb, a former private secretary of Pope Francis, has been named nuncio to South Korea (Rocco Palmo). Jihadists...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 26/04/18
Benedict XVI is reportedly backing the seven German bishops objecting to new guidance on Communion for Protestants. Chinese authorities have seized an unregistered Catholic church in Henan province....
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