Morning Catholic must-reads: 27/09/13
Ireland’s largest Catholic-owned hospital has agreed to perform abortions under a new law, reports the Irish Independent. Asia Bibi could “be killed very soon” unless she is released from a Pakistani...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 31/10/13
The US National Security Agency (NSA) has denied Italian reports that it spied on the Vatican during the conclave. Russia is considering granting citizenship to about 50,000 Syrian Christians, reports...
View ArticleToday’s Catholic must-reads: 13/11/13
Vatican doctrinal chief Archbishop Gerhard Ludwig Müller has urged the Archdiocese of Freiburg to revise its new policy of inviting divorced and remarried Catholics to receive Communion. Cardinal Luis...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 04/03/15
L’Osservatore Romano has dismissed a film defending Pope Pius XII’s wartime record as “frankly clumsy” (trailer, Rome Reports video). Fr Alexis Prem Kumar has revealed that listening to Vatican Radio...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 12/08/15
ISIS has freed 22 Assyrian Christians seized in northeastern Syria in February. Composer Paul Inwood has won an international competition to create the official Vatican hymn for the Year of Mercy. A...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 14/08/15
Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin has arrived in Dili, where he will sign a concordat between the Holy See and East Timor. Indonesia has honoured two European Jesuits for their...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 07/10/15
The Church must examine “to what extent she is living as the family of God”, Pope Francis said at his general audience today (full text, full English text, full video). California’s decision to...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 08/10/15
The papal visit to America “generated goodwill” across the political spectrum, the Pew Research Center has found. Authorities in the Philippines are searching for a former Italian Catholic missionary...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 27/11/15
Pope Tawadros II has become the first Coptic pope in decades to visit Israel. The Church in El Salvador has suspended a prominent priest over abuse allegations. Officials are investigating reports of a...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 28/01/16
Tomorrow’s peace talks in Geneva are the “best chance the international community has to bring a stable and lasting peace to Syria”, Vatican diplomat Archbishop Bernardito Auza has said. The...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 19/02/16
Pope Francis “is doing a very good job” and “has a lot of energy” Donald Trump said last night. Cardinal John Onaiyekan has called for a national spiritual rebirth in Nigeria. Cardinal Philippe...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 03/03/16
Pope Francis will hear Confessions in St Peter’s Basilica tomorrow. L’Osservatore Romano has published a series of articles calling for women to preach at Mass. The Nigerian army has detained a...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 09/03/16
The creation of a Christian militia in Iraq “could lead to another ‘holocaust'”, Chaldean Patriarch Louis Raphael I Sako has said. The VatiLeaks trial will resume next week. Archbishop Želimir Puljić...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 14/03/16
Pope Francis marked the third anniversary of his election yesterday by giving away 40,000 copies of St Luke’s Gospel (full text, full video). The Pope has said that his recent annulment reforms had “an...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 19/04/16
The joint statement of Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill “helped save thousands of lives” in Syria, the Russian Orthodox synod has said. A Polish bishop has approved a bleeding Host that “has the...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 20/04/16
Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York has opened a new stage in the Cause of Dorothy Day (John Allen, Fr Brandon O’Brien). Western Europe has become like the atheist Soviet Union, Russian Orthodox...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 04/07/16
The Christian must be aware of the “sometimes hostile reality that awaits him”, Pope Francis said at yesterday’s Angelus (full text, full video). Christians are living in “a state of fear”, the...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 21/09/16
Chaldean leaders will meet tomorrow to discuss the beatification of 21st-century martyrs including Fr Ragheed Ganni and Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho. Five hundred Catholic scholars have defended...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 07/02/17
Donald Trump is expected to meet Pope Francis in May, reports Christopher Lamb. The German bishops’ guidelines on Amoris Laetitia are “very demanding”, a senior official has said. An Italian journalist...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 16/02/17
Cardinal Raymond Burke is being sent to Guam to investigate clerical abuse allegations. The Order of Malta will elect a new Grand Master on April 29 (Fr John Zuhlsdorf). Coptic Catholic bishops have...
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