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Pope denounces ‘multiplication of massacres’ in Syria 27 Aug 2013 | 04:31 pm
Pope Francis has again called for an end to the fighting in Syria, denouncing the “multiplication of massacres and atrocious acts”, including the suspected chemical weapons attack that left hundreds d...
The Girl Guides’ new oath – sincere secularism or juvenile ageism? 27 Aug 2013 | 03:48 pm
Catholics might be disappointed to learn that a group of Christian Girl Guides, who initially refused to drop the traditional pledge to “love my God” from their oath, will now be using the Girl Guides...
Coptic Catholic leader: Egyptian government is not stopping hate speech against Christians 27 Aug 2013 | 02:54 pm
Egypt’s new interim government is doing nothing to prevent hate speech, which is inciting violence against Christians, a prominent Egyptian Catholic leader has said. “The state is paying no attention...
Morning Catholic must-reads: 27/08/13 27 Aug 2013 | 02:24 pm
Australian Cardinal George Pell has said that Coptic communities are being persecuted “even outside Egypt“. Bishop Hugh Gilbert of Aberdeen has compared the Nashville Dominicans’ arrival in Scotland ...
Pope asks pontifical academies to help fight human trafficking 26 Aug 2013 | 04:48 pm
At the request of Pope Francis, scholars and researchers belonging to two pontifical academies and the World Federation of Catholic Medical Associations are to begin focusing on the phenomenon of huma...
The essential question that Blessed Dominic Barberi’s life poses is one that we need to face 26 Aug 2013 | 04:31 pm
The Blessed Dominic Barberi, whom the Church in England commemorates today, is now chiefly remembered, if at all, as the priest who received the Blessed John Henry Newman into the Church. But Dominic ...
We can’t give children enough of Shakespeare 26 Aug 2013 | 03:02 pm
There was a provocative headline in the Telegraph on Saturday: “Children ‘force fed’ Shakespeare says head.” It seems that Tim Hands, the Master of Magdalen College School, Oxford, disagrees with refo...
Morning Catholic must-reads: 26/08/13 26 Aug 2013 | 02:26 pm
“The gate that is Jesus is never closed,” Pope Francis said in his Angelus address yesterday (video). Archbishop Georg Gänswein has denied claims that Benedict XVI resigned following a mystical exper...
With the use of one word, Pope Francis is signalling to the Vatican insiders that their day is over 23 Aug 2013 | 04:38 pm
It seems that Pope Francis has been on the phone again, as this heart-warming story that appears in both the Telegraph and the Guardian tells us. The latter’s headline even goes so far as to describe ...
The new decree on the rite of Baptism is unambiguous 23 Aug 2013 | 04:35 pm
Sandro Magister, the long established blogger on Vatican matters, has given a slightly mischievous twist to the headline of his most recent bulletin: “Pope Benedict’s Parting Shot” (it is reported mor...
