Morning Catholic must-reads: 05/08/16
Patriarch Louis Raphaël I Sako has issued a six-point plan for rebuilding Iraq after ISIS. Unidentified perpetrators have burned down a Catholic church in southern Chile. At least 14 of Ireland’s 26...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 21/10/16
China and the Holy See will seek “to finalise a deal on the ordination of bishops” at a meeting in Rome this month, reports Reuters. Political dialogue must continue in Venezuela despite serious...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 11/11/16
Pope Francis has discussed Donald Trump, immigrants and the poor in a new interview with La Repubblica’s Eugenio Scalfari (Italian text). More than 20 million pilgrims have visited Rome during the Year...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 04/01/17
Pope Francis could visit South Sudan or the Democratic Republic of Congo this year, reports Gerard O’Connell. Up to 18 million people are expected to attend the feast of the Black Nazarene in Manila on...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 01/05/17
Pope Francis urged the Venezuelan government and opposition “to avoid all further forms of violence” in his Regina Caeli address yesterday (full video). The Brothers of Charity in Belgium have...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 23/05/17
Belgium’s bishops have said they disagree with the decision by the Brothers of Charity to allow euthanasia in its psychiatric hospitals (French report, French full text). Ivanka Trump will discuss...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 28/06/17
Pope Francis will create the smallest group of new cardinals since 1977 today. Archbishop Jean Zerbo of Bamako will receive the red hat despite health problems (Joe Slama). Full communion between...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 25/08/17
Pope Francis will “almost certainly “ visit Burma and Bangladesh this year, according to Reuters. A new ISIS video shows a jihadist threatening the Pope. Francis’s letter to Buenos Aires bishops about...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 30/11/17
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: 14/03/18
Three Catholic bishops were among the delegates at the National People’s Congress who made Xi Jinping China’s president for life (Courtney Grogan). Hindu nationalists have “beaten up nurses and pushed...
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