Bishop encourages priests to celebrate Mass ad orientem
Bishop James S. Wall also announced a weekly ad orientem Mass at his cathedral
UK High Court to hear case on medical treatment of Tafida Raqeeb
Italian doctors have agreed to care for her, but UK doctors want to turn off her life support
Bishop Brennan named as successor to disgraced Bishop Bransfield
Bishop Mark E. Brennan is currently auxiliary of Baltimore
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Pope Francis tells Assad: ‘Stop this humanitarian catastrophe’
In a letter to the Syrian president, the Pope made particular reference to the situation in Idlib
Pope Francis: Follow St John Bosco in the fight against abuse
Comparing the fight against abuse with the war on drugs, the Pope said Don Bosco’s ‘preventive system’ has much to teach us
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Vatican announces sanctions on disgraced Bishop Bransfield
Vatican says Bransfield is obliged ‘to make personal amends for some of the harm he caused’
How the Catholic Herald reported the moon landing
Fifty years ago, man landed on the moon. The Herald, then still a newspaper, had a very Catholic angle on the story
Also in this issue…
Can boycott threats force dioceses to be financially transparent?
It worked in the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston, but may not elsewhere
For the first time, a non-journalist is Director of the Vatican Press Office
The appointment of Matteo Bruni, a British-born layman, marks a new era for the Press Office of the Holy See
Planned Parenthood’s firing of Dr Wen shows the stark choice facing America
The masks have all come off now. There can be no more subtlety about ‘reproductive health care’
The cautionary tale of Pastor Amy
Those who think a female priesthood is the answer to the Church’s woes need to consider this story
Good news for low-income, uninsured mothers
Title X funding is now redirected to those clinics where abortion isn’t a woman’s only choice
The many spiritual graces of wearing the Brown Scapular
The scapular, received by St Simon Stock from Our Lady of Mount Carmel, has been enriched with indulgences
The epic Russian novel you’ve never heard of
Vasily Grossman witnessed first hand the horrors of the Eastern Front
We can all learn from Regulus’s heroic self-sacrifice
His actions may baffle us moderns, but they speak to a higher truth
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Cardinal Newman saved both our lives
Melissa Villalobos was critically ill and in danger of losing her unborn child. Then she turned in desperation to her ‘spiritual father’
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