Morning Catholic must-reads: 29/06/10
Pope Benedict XVI announced the creation of the Pontifical Council for the New Evangelisation yesterday. John Allen analyses the move (video, full text of papal homily). The US Supreme Court has...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 04/10/10
Benedict XVI urged young Sicilians not to be lured by the Mafia during his visit to the island yesterday. Bishops in the Philippines have said they may call for “civil disobedience” if the...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 03/03/11
Lesley-Anne Knight, the embattled secretary-general of Caritas Internationalis, has insisted that dialogue with the Vatican must be a “two-way street“. Archbishop Vincent Nichols of Westminster said...
View ArticleToday’s Catholic must-reads: 12/10/11
Pope Benedict XVI said he was “deeply saddened” by the violence in Cairo on Sunday at his weekly general audience this morning, which he dedicated to Psalm 126 (video). Bishop Martinus Dogma...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 05/03/12
“Like the three Apostles in the Gospel, we too must go up the mountain of transfiguration and receive God’s light,” Benedict XVI said during a visit to the Roman parish of San Giovanni Battista de La...
View ArticleToday’s Catholic must-reads: 03/04/12
Archbishop José Luis Escobar Alas of San Salvador has urged a group of ex-combatants to end their three-month occupation of his cathedral and allow the faithful to attend Holy Week services. Archbishop...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 09/04/12
Benedict XVI is planning to cut down on foreign travel as he prepares to celebrate his 85th birthday, his brother Mgr Georg Ratzinger has said. The Vatican has written to the Austrian bishops demanding...
View ArticleForget Andrew Sullivan, follow the Church
In the world of religious journalism, which is to say not the real world, one of the big stories of Holy Week was a Newsweek cover essay by Andrew Sullivan entitled “Forget the Church, Follow Jesus”....
View ArticleToday’s Catholic must-reads: 14/02/13
Benedict XVI gave a 45-minute off-the-cuff reflection on Vatican II before Rome’s clergy this morning (video). Pope Benedict suffered a previously undisclosed minor head injury during his visit to...
View ArticleToday’s Catholic must-reads: 03/07/13
The Archdiocese of Philadelphia recorded a “very serious” deficit of $39.1m (£25.6m, €30.1m) in the last fiscal year, according to figures released today (PDF of financial report). US President Barack...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 08/07/13
Pope Francis threw a wreath into the sea this morning in honour of migrants who died trying to reach on the Italian island of Lampedusa (full video of Mass). Pope Francis said he hoped his first...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 30/07/13
Rebels in Syria linked to al-Qaeda have reportedly kidnapped Fr Paolo Dall’Oglio, an Italian Jesuit critic of Bashar al-Assad. Members of the Spanish royal family attended a Mass in Santiago de...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 20/09/13
Pope Francis’s big interview with Fr Antonio Spadaro has inspired commentary from John Allen, Matthew Archbold, Andrew Brown, Brett Decker, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, William Donohue, Greg Erlandson, Joe...
View ArticleToday’s Catholic must-reads: 23/10/13
If the Church were to fail “to bring Jesus” it would be “a dead church”, Pope Francis said at his general audience this morning (short video, full video). The justice system punishes “the small fry”...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 06/03/14
Lenten fasting must help us “cultivate the style of the good Samaritan“, Pope Francis said yesterday at Ash Wednesday Mass (full text, short video). The “brotherhood among Crimean people”, must not be...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 07/03/14
Benedict XVI has said in a new interview that although he “could not” imitate John Paul II he “did try and continue his legacy and endeavours as best as I could”. Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith of Colombo...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 14/03/14
When the cardinals elected Francis “they did not know what a Pandora’s box they were opening“, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor has said. The ministry of slum priests in Buenos Aires is “not...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 27/06/14
Cardinal Seán O’Malley has welcomed a Supreme Court ruling that abortion clinic “buffer-zones” violate the US constitution. The Sudanese Christian woman who faced the death penalty for alleged apostasy...
View ArticleToday’s Catholic must-reads: 15/10/14
“Christian hope is not simply a desire,” Pope Francis said at today’s general audience (full text, short video, full video). The Pope has praised the “realism” of St Teresa of Ávila in a letter looking...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 16/10/14
Bombs and tanks “cannot stop” the ideology of ISIS spreading, Archbishop Giorgio Lingua, nuncio to Jordan and Iraq, has said. A bishops’ conference official has urged Pope Francis to spend more than...
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