Luke Coppen, Author at Catholic Herald

Luke Coppen

September 01, 2019

The race to take top place “hurts the community, both civil and ecclesial”, Pope Francis said at yesterday’s Angelus (full text, full video). Cardinal George Alencherry has been “permanently stripped administrative power” in his Archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly. Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the killing of a Catholic priest. John Allen says the Vatican’s “Ironic

Morning Catholic must-reads: 30/08/19

August 30, 2019

St John Paul II should be declared the patron saint of Polish-Ukrainian reconciliation, Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk has said. Cardinal Achille Silvestrini, former prefect of the Congregation for Eastern Churches, has died aged 95. Bandits have killed a priest in Nigeria. The Canadian Mgr Carl Reid has been installed as head of Australia’s ordinariate. Mgr Charles

Morning Catholic must-reads: 29/08/19

August 29, 2019

Xu Hongwei has become the second Chinese bishop to be ordained since last September’s Vatican-China agreement. An Argentine judge has permitted Bishop Gustavo Zanchetta to return to Rome “to continue with his daily work” – even though he has been suspended from his Vatican post. A high court in India has agreed to hear a

Morning Catholic must-reads: 28/08/19

August 28, 2019

The victims of the Easter Sunday attacks in Sri Lanka were martyrs, two cardinals have declared. The Causes of five 21st-century Iraqi martyrs will be presented at the Vatican next month. Former nuncio Archbishop Pablo Puente has endorsed women priests. Three schools in Ireland are preparing to become “the first to abandon their Catholic ethos

Morning Catholic must-reads: 27/08/19

August 26, 2019

Antonio Yao Shun has become the first bishop to be ordained in China since last September’s “provisional agreement”, reports Asia News. Russian Orthodox leader Metropolitan Hilarion has met Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle in the Philippines. Fr Matthew Schneider sees “the start of a change in the Church’s attitude towards autism”. Archbishop Diarmuid Martin says there

Morning Catholic must-reads: 26/08/19

August 25, 2019

“The Lord will not recognise us for the titles we have,” Pope Francis said at yesterday’s Angelus (full text, full video). An Indian court has ruled that Cardinal George Alencherry must face trial in relation to controversial land deals. Cardinal Pell has reportedly asked his lawyers to take his case to the High Court. Stanisław

Morning Catholic must-reads: 23/08/19

August 23, 2019

The European project is faltering because of a “weakening of the sense of duty and the progressive subjectivation of rights”, Vatican Archbishop Paul Gallagher has said. Cardinal Blase Cupich has had a “rare face-to-face meeting” with Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul. Julia Yost says this week’s Cardinal Pell ruling was hardly surprising. Clemente Lisi suggests

Morning Catholic must-reads: 22/08/19

August 22, 2019

Pope Francis encouraged a girl with autism to share the stage with him at yesterday’s general audience (Junno Arocho Esteves, video). India has refused to renew the visa of an 86-year-old Spanish nun who has served the poor for five decades. The Church in Burundi has opened its first saints’ causes. Thousands have attended the

Morning Catholic must-reads: 21/08/19

August 21, 2019

Pope Francis is likely to visit Thailand in November, according to Vatican sources. An Indian bishop has criticised a judge who said students risked abuse and forced conversion at Christian schools. The Pope has accepted the resignation of Tanzanian Cardinal Polycarp Pengo. A hospital boat named Pope Francis has set sail on the Amazon River.

Morning Catholic must-reads: 02/08/19

August 02, 2019

Apple News has banned LifeSite for alleged “intolerance towards a specific group”. Zambia is gripped by “a sense of anxiety and disorientation”, the country’s bishops have said in a pastoral letter. An Indonesian pro-democracy activist has become a Jesuit priest. Rod Dreher reports that the Cause of GK Chesterton will not proceed (Spanish report). Mgr

Morning Catholic must-reads: 01/08/19

August 01, 2019

Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith has refused to meet Sri Lanka’s presidential candidates until an investigation into the Easter Sunday attacks is released. The identity of Rome’s John Paul II Institute is “seriously threatened”, its vice-president has said. A Vietnamese Catholic activist will spend five years under house arrest following her release from prison. Muslim workers have

Morning Catholic must-reads: 31/07/19

July 31, 2019

The Amazon synod’s working document “testifies to the emergence of a post-Christian Catholic theology”, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has claimed. Pope Francis has made a surprise visit to an ailing nun. Federal agents are investigating a fire that destroyed a 125-year-old Texan church on Monday. George Weigel deplores “Stalinistic acts of intellectual brigandage against the

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