Bishops say reducing refugee numbers ‘wholly counter to our values’
The Trump administration is reportedly considering further cuts to US refugee admissions
Bishop Bransfield’s life of luxury
A Washington Post investigation found the bishop took at least 19 trips in a chartered luxury jet
Pope Francis: Tradition is ‘the guarantee of the future’
‘Never break away from your roots to be modern, that’s suicide,’ the Pope told Discalced Augustinians
German bishops respond to Vatican intervention
Cardinal Marx is to travel to Rome next week to ‘dispel any misunderstandings’
Pope Francis explains decision to give relics of St Peter to Orthodox
‘This gesture is intended to be a confirmation of the journey that our Churches have made in drawing closer to one another,’ the Pope said
Pope Francis to visit Thailand and Japan in November
Catholics make up less than 0.5 per cent of the population of both countries
Priests ‘cannot comply’ with laws that break seal of confession, Tasmania’s archbishop says
Archbishop Porteous said that priests cannot violate the seal of confession under any circumstances
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Vatican: German synod plans ‘not ecclesiologically valid’
A legal assessment says the German bishops’ plans violate canonical norms
Dutch doctor cleared in case of euthanasia without final consent
‘We believe that given the deeply demented condition of the patient the doctor did not need to verify her wish,’ the judge said
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Full text: Pope Francis’s in-flight press conference from Madagascar
The full transcript of the Pope’s in-flight press conference from Antananarivo, Madagascar to Rome:
Also in this issue…
Will Catholic schools resist state pressure on sex education?
Catholic schools will soon find themselves having to make a difficult choice on sex education
Our cultural roots are in Latin and Greek
Pupils love the logic and complexities of ancient languages, says Alexander Jolliffe
How Newman brought God to a neglected village
Littlemore was poor and had few practicing Christians, but it received as its pastor one of the great Christian intellects
The Anglo-Saxon poem that exults the Holy Cross
‘The Dream of the Rood’ is the product of a society that understood the transformative power of the Cross
The German bishops are proposing a counterfeit mercy
They want to change teaching not to free people from sin, but to say that sin is no longer sin
Vos estis: why is it being applied in Crookston but not in Buffalo?
US Church authorities seem hesitant to test the new Vatican law
Has the German Church forgotten Pope Francis’s warnings?
The Church in Germany today is going far beyond where modernizers once dared to tread
Analysis: Who are the Central Committee of German Catholics?
The controversial lay group has a history of open dissent from Church teaching
Why this debate between Christian conservatives matters for everyone
In an age of increased hostility, should Christians simply defend ‘viewpoint neutrality’, or must they do more?
One off-the-cuff remark could now overshadow the Pope’s entire Africa trip
The Pope’s comment on American attacks got the press corps talking. It wouldn’t be the first time this has happened, either
Do liberals really now prefer authoritarian mob rule?
By rejecting the electoral college as ‘undemocratic’, liberals are rejecting a core ideological tenet of liberalism
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