Luke Coppen, Author at Catholic Herald

Luke Coppen

October 21, 2019

Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński will be beatified on June 7, 2020 in Warsaw. The Archbishop of Canterbury has hailed St John Henry Newman as “a model of the purposeful disciple”. A mobster has claimed that he was part of “a team of hitmen who whacked John Paul I”. Jose Kavi reports on a “shocking” dispute over

Morning Catholic must-reads: 21/10/19

October 20, 2019

Pope Francis urged Catholics to spread the Gospel with “new enthusiasm” at yesterday’s Angelus (full text, full video). Martyr Fr Alfredo Cremonesi was beatified on Saturday. A controversial carved image of a pregnant woman was present at a Way of the Cross in Rome on Saturday. Fr Dwight Longenecker compares Pachamama and the Pietà. Cardinal

Morning Catholic must-reads: 18/10/19

October 18, 2019

The people of South Sudan are on “life support”, Bishop Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala has said. Fr Alfredo Cremonesi, a missionary killed in Burma in 1953, will be beatified tomorrow. The Ford Foundation is a major funder of Amazon synod organisations, reports Edward Pentin. John Allen explains why “Europe today has 42 per cent of all

Morning Catholic must-reads: 17/10/19

October 17, 2019

The Amazon synod is not a “referendum” on priestly celibacy, Cardinal Seán O’Malley has said (Fr Luke Hansen SJ, Robert Royal). The Holy Spirit is “working overtime” at the synod, Cardinal Kevin Farrell has said. A priest has been kidnapped and murdered in Embu County, Kenya. There is a “strong fear” among Iraqi Christians that

Morning Catholic must-reads: 16/10/19

October 16, 2019

Cardinal Pell’s legal team has accused Victoria’s crown prosecutors of “mischaracterising” his appeal. Work has begun on the “largest seating capacity Catholic parish church” in the United States. The theme of the next March for Life in Washington, DC, will be “Life Empowers: Pro-Life is Pro-Woman”. Edward Pentin explores the “intrigue and mystery” behind the

Morning Catholic must-reads: 15/10/19

October 14, 2019

Christian refugees are likely to flee northeastern Syria for Erbil, Archbishop Bashar Warda has said. A parish priest and a visiting Indian archbishop have been killed in a car accident in California. More than 100,000 Syro-Malabar men over 30 are unable to find wives, an Indian Church leader has said. Andrea Gagliarducci explains why the

Morning Catholic must-reads: 14/10/19

October 13, 2019

An auxiliary bishop of Manila has denounced President Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war as a “sham”. The Orthodox Church in Greece has opted to recognise the autocephalous Orthodox Church of Ukraine (Peter Anderson). An Australian politician has called for signs to be posted outside Catholic churches warning of danger to children. Theodora Hawksley, Austen Ivereigh, HRH

Morning Catholic must-reads: 11/10/19

October 11, 2019

Poland’s bishops have agreed to open the Cause of St John Paul II’s parents. The Irish government has bowed to pressure to send a representative to Newman’s canonisation. The bishops’ conference of Bangladesh has decided not to create a central office for child protection. Charles Collins identifies “the real revolution” in Bishop Fritz Lobinger’s proposal

Morning Catholic must-reads: 10/10/19

October 10, 2019

Turkey’s offensive in northeastern Syria is “causing widespread panic” among local Christians, reports Dale Gavlak. Pope Francis has thanked a Malaysian sultan for commuting death sentences against three Mexican brothers. Austen Ivereigh and Sandro Magister comment on the Amazon synod. Bishop Robert Barron, Elise Italiano Ureneck, Peter Kwasniewski, Bishop Fintan Monahan and Carl Trueman look

Morning Catholic must-reads: 09/10/19

October 09, 2019

Victoria’s Director of Public Prosecutions has urged Australia’s High Court to refuse to hear a final appeal by Cardinal George Pell. A human rights group has said it is “deeply concerned” for the Christian and Yazidi communities of northeast Syria. Archbishop Peter Loy Chong has criticised Fiji’s “coup culture”. John Allen, Maureen Mullarkey, Brother Mark

Morning Catholic must-reads: 08/10/19

October 07, 2019

Neither the Irish government nor University College Dublin are expected to send an official representative to Newman’s canonisation. Amazon synod participants should “respect the warnings” of critics, Peruvian Cardinal Pedro Barreto has said. President Rodrigo Duterte has invited Russian Orthodox missionaries to the Philippines. John Allen says that Amazon synod relator Cardinal Hummes has placed

Morning Catholic must-reads: 07/10/19

October 06, 2019

At yesterday’s Angelus, Pope Francis asked Catholics to pray for the Amazon synod “so that it might be lived in fraternal communion and in the docility to the Holy Spirit” (full text, full video). Dan Collyns, Lebo Diseko, The Economist, Delia Gallagher, Rocco Palmo and Stefano Pitrelli comment on the Amazon synod. Edward Pentin argues that a

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