Luke Coppen, Author at Catholic Herald

Luke Coppen

November 07, 2019

The Church in Britain has been struggling for decades “to cope with the presence of evil embodied in its members”, Cardinal Vincent Nichols has told an abuse inquiry. The Holy See has approved the new French translation of the Roman Missal. Members of the Community of St John have voted to refound the order (French

Morning Catholic must-reads: 06/11/19

November 06, 2019

Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has hailed the man who threw an Amazon statue into the Tiber as “a hero”. Cardinal George Pell reportedly vetoed a €50 million loan request to secure the purchase of a bankrupt Rome hospital. Patriarch Kirill of Moscow has ceased to commemorate Archbishop Ieronymos II of Athens in a dispute over

Morning Catholic must-reads: 05/11/19

November 05, 2019

The Vatican’s $200 million London property deal was financed with borrowed money, reports the Catholic News Agency. Pope Francis has urged universities to “overcome the legacy of the Enlightenment”. A new book-length papal interview will be published today. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has posted a video on Twitter seemingly comparing the Brazilian bishops to hyenas.

Morning Catholic must-reads: 04/11/19

November 04, 2019

Pope Francis prayed for persecuted Ethiopian Orthodox Christians at yesterday’s Angelus (full text, full video). Archbishop Charles Scicluna has asked “pardon for the walls built to separate our dead” in Malta. US parishes run by the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter (FSSP) have reported large increases in Sunday Mass attendance. Heather Chen profiles a nun

Morning Catholic must-reads: 01/11/19

November 01, 2019

Parishioners have occupied a church in China’s Hebei province, in an attempt to save it from demolition. The German bishops have criticised a new film attacking Benedict XVI’s record on abuse (German report). If Jesuit leader Fr Arturo Sosa’s reported comments about Satan are accurate, he has “put himself outside the communion of the Church”,

Morning Catholic must-reads: 31/10/19

October 31, 2019

Cardinal Angelo Becciu has denied “slanderous charges” that he “played with and tampered with the money of the poor”. A priest kidnapped in Nigeria’s Enugu State has been released unharmed. Fr Gilfredo Marengo has been named vice president of the Pontifical John Paul II Institute in Rome. Cardinal Mauro Piacenza has urged the faithful to

Morning Catholic must-reads: 30/10/19

October 30, 2019

The Vatican is “working to clear up” why it was involved in a “rather opaque” London property deal, Cardinal Pietro Parolin has said. Gunmen have kidnapped a priest in Nigeria’s Enugu State. The number of Orthodox parishes in Latvia has increased by a third since 1992. Michael Brendan Dougherty says the Amazon synod was “dogged

Morning Catholic must-reads: 29/10/19

October 28, 2019

St Thérèse of Lisieux’s relics will visit Australia for the first time in 18 years in 2020. The Church’s greatest problem is “not the scandal of sexual abuse of minors by its clergy, but the scourge of clericalism”, the Rector Major of the Salesians has said. Nigerian Cardinal Anthony Okogie has called for “a new

Morning Catholic must-reads: 28/10/19

October 27, 2019

Participants in the Amazon synod heard “the cry of the poor, together with that of the earth”, Pope Francis said at yesterday’s Angelus (full text, full video). Lourdes is seeing a “statistical explosion” in pickpocketing. Germany’s largest Catholic parish will open on January 1. John Allen, Rachel Donadio, JD Flynn, Andrea Gagliarducci, Sandro Magister, Rocco

Morning Catholic must-reads: 25/10/19

October 25, 2019

The Catholic population of Iceland is reportedly rising rapidly. The Heralds of the Gospel have rejected a Vatican investigation as “absolutely invalid and completely illegal”. Cardinal Vincent Nichols has said he will give oral evidence to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse on November 6. JD Flynn says the Vatican financial scandal “comes at

Morning Catholic must-reads: 24/10/19

October 24, 2019

Bolivia’s presidential election is being marred by “obvious signs of fraud”, the president of the country’s bishops’ conference has said. The Vatican Financial Information Authority has expressed support for its suspended director. The Chaldean patriarchate has said it fears that further violence will engulf Iraq tomorrow. Fr Raymond de Souza argues that a “deliberate ambiguity”

Morning Catholic must-reads: 23/10/19

October 23, 2019

The bishops of war-torn South Sudan have issued an “urgent call for peace and justice”. The United Arab Emirates has entered a partnership with Unesco to rebuild two Catholic churches in Mosul. The Archdiocese of Sydney has opened the Cause of Eileen O’Connor. Rocco Palmo asks if we’re seeing the “revenge of the statues” at

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