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Let’s show more love for the marginalised, says archbishop
The Archbishop of Chicago has told reporters that something his mother once said might give the family synod a way to balance the need to affirm Church teaching while reaching out to those who are...
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Letters from the Synod: October 17-18
NEWS …from and about Synod 2015 An Interview with Cardinal Pell Cardinal George Pell (b 1941) was educated at the Pontifical Urban University and Oxford University, where he earned the doctorate in...
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Letters from the Synod: special edition, October 17
Archbishop Cupich and Cardinal Newman: A Debate Engaged Archbishop Blase Cupich of Chicago did Synod-2015 a great service on October 16, by holding a press briefing during which he said the following,...
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Letters from the Synod: October 21
NEWS …from and about Synod 2015 The schedule for the remainder of Synod-2015 has been changed by the Synod general secretariat. On Tuesday evening, October 20, the reporters from the various...
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Is the family synod being driven by sentiment?
Towards the end of the second week of the family synod the media divulged the unconfirmed story one bishop had reportedly shared with the assembly, a story from his diocese: a little boy whose father...
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Letters from the Synod: special edition, October 25
Those Three Paragraphs in the Synod Final Report or The German Spin Machine in Overdrive Within 90 minutes of the Te Deum being sung at the end of Synod-2015’s last working day, controversy broke out...
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What would Benedict XVI make of the synod’s final report? He told us 30 years...
The recent relatio at the end of the family synod was, it was hoped, going to provide some resolution to the vigorous debate on the best means of pastorally accompanying couples who are divorced and...
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Confraternity praises synod fathers for standing firm on marriage
A group of priests in England and Wales has praised synod fathers for remaining firm on the issue of same-sex marriage. The British Province of the Confraternity of Catholic Clergy (CCC) said it was...
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Morning Catholic must-reads: 02/12/15
The health of Mother Angelica, the 92-year founder of the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN), is reportedly declining. Bishops in the Democratic Republic of Congo have urged citizens to resist any...
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Morning Catholic must-reads: 31/12/15
The persecution of Christians and other religious minorities by ISIS should be recognised as “genocide”, US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has said. Bishop Joseph Alessandro has praised...
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Are there really two popes?
On December 8, Pope Francis pushed open the Holy Door of the Basilica of St Peter’s. He thus became the first person to walk through one of the “Doors of Mercy” in cathedrals and churches all over the...
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Morning Catholic must-reads: 11/02/16
The joint declaration that Patriarch Kirill and Pope Francis will sign tomorrow was agreed “late last night”, Interfax has reported. The Catholic Church in Brazil has rejected a UN appeal for the...
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Why is Cardinal Kasper doing a victory lap ahead of the apostolic exhortation?
On Monday of this week, Cardinal Walter Kasper said that Pope Francis would be ready to sign off on the final version of his post-synodal apostolic exhortation this weekend. While it remains unclear...
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Pope Francis ventures into uncharted waters
Reaction to Amoris Laetitia, the long-awaited apostolic exhortation on the family, shows that its short-term effect has been to stoke the flames of an ongoing and sometimes acrimonious debate within...
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Divorced and remarried Catholics should abstain from sex, says US archbishop
The Archbishop of Philadelphia has reiterated that divorced and remarried couples in his archdiocese should live “as brother and sister”. Archbishop Charles Chaput issued a new set of pastoral...
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Pope names Archbishop Cupich to Congregation for Bishops
The Pope has appointed Archbishop Blase Cupich of Chicago to the Congregation of Bishops. The appointment is likely to give the archbishop significant influence over future episcopal appointments in...
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There’s a good reason that annulments in India now have no legal force
Earlier this week the Indian Supreme Court ruled that annulments granted by ecclesiastical tribunals lacked any legal force, meaning that couples who had received an affirmative decision still...
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Maltese bishop denies he will suspend priests who don’t give Communion to the...
Bishop Mario Grech has denied that he will suspend priests who abide by traditional Church teaching on the Eucharist. Several websites had reported rumours that the Maltese bishop had threatened to...
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Cardinal Nichols praises Pope’s ‘patience and reserve’ over dubia
Cardinal Vincent Nichols has expressed his support for Pope Francis in the wake of questions raised by four cardinals about parts of Amoris Laetitia. The president of the Bishops’ Conference of...
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Cardinal Nichols praises Maltese bishops’ guidelines on Amoris
Cardinal Vincent Nichols, the Archbishop of Westminster, has praised the Maltese bishops’ approach to the Pope’s apostolic exhortation on the family, Amoris Laetitia. Malta’s two bishops issued...
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