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Meanwhile: Abba inside the Vatican, ‘Day of Sobriety’
September 19, 2019
You might imagine that Vatican officials would only listen to Monteverdi and Palestrina. But Archbishop Paul Gallagher, the Holy See’s foreign minister and incidentally the highest-ranking Briton in the Vatican, has revealed another side to ecclesiastical taste. According to a Times preview of the BBC’s forthcoming Inside the Vatican documentary, those passing underneath the archbishop’s
The week in quotations
September 19, 2019
“I sensed that this thought came to me from the Holy Spirit” Pope Francis explains why he decided to give a relic of St Peter to the Eastern Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew Letter to the Patriarch “Unfortunate, saddening, and simply untrue” A Planned Parenthood spokeswoman clashes with ex-president Leana Wen, who says she is being held
The big story: Pope Francis: ‘I’m not afraid of schism’
September 19, 2019
What happened? Pope Francis has raised the prospect of schism, telling reporters that it is a constant possibility in the Church. Answering a journalist’s question during an inflight press confernce, the Pope observed that there were many historical examples of schism, from the early Church onward. “A schism is always an elitist separation stemming from
Overlooked: Doctor acquitted in Dutch euthanasia case
September 19, 2019
What happened? A Dutch doctor has been acquitted after slipping a sedative into a patient’s coffee and then giving her a lethal injection. The 74-year-old patient, who had dementia, had to be held down by her own family members so that the final injection could be given. The court ruled that the procedure did not
The week ahead: Home Mission, Wall Street, Cardinal Sarah’s new book
September 12, 2019
Sunday September 15 is Home Mission Sunday in England and Wales. It’s a day to pray for the Church’s mission, and there’s a second collection for the bishops’ work of evangelisation. Details of parish resources, prayers and evangelisation ideas such as postcard giveaways can be found at homemission.org.uk/home/events/home-mission-sunday *** Stephen Auth, a veteran investor and
Overlooked: Vatican ‘faces severe financial crisis’
September 12, 2019
What happened? The Vatican is facing a financial crisis thanks to “persistent inefficiencies and hits to investment income”, according to the Wall Street Journal. According to “senior Vatican officials”, the Holy See’s budget deficit has doubled since 2017 to about £60m ($75m). Its income is around £240m ($300m). Why was it under-reported? The article was
The week in quotations
September 12, 2019
“The love of the Lord has more to do with raising up than knocking down” Pope Francis in Mozambique Meeting young people “I prayed and asked God for the next bomb to hit me” Fr Chito Suganob on being kidnapped by Islamists in the Philippines BBC News website “Northern Ireland is being used as a
World News: from Suárez to South Brisbane
September 12, 2019
Washington, DC Pro-lifers condemn Sanders’s population comments Pro-life activists have condemned Senator Ber­nie Sanders for remarks which appeared to support the abortion of unborn children as a way of limiting population growth in poor countries. Sanders said that population growth was a threat to the environment, and drew attention to “poor countries around the world,
The best of the web: Interviewing McCarrick, leaving Orthodoxy, canonising Chesterton
September 12, 2019
McCarrick still doesn’t confess Ruth Graham secured a world exclusive with her interview with former cardinal Theodore McCarrick for Slate. Much of her piece explored the problem of what the Church should do with a disgraced prelate, and where to put him out of the public eye: he lives for the foreseeable future in a
Meanwhile: BBC to broadcast Lourdes miracle investigation
September 12, 2019
An alleged Lourdes miracle is being investigated – on a BBC TV programme. Kazik Stepan, from Kent, says he was cured of an inoperable spinal condition in 1965, when he visited the Marian pilgrimage site as a teenager. He believes a medical miracle took place after he bathed in the famous waters of Lourdes. Although many
The big story: Debate heats up ahead of Amazon synod
September 12, 2019
What happened? Divisions are growing over next month’s Amazon synod, with one cardinal warning of “a situation never before seen in the Church’s history”, and a prominent bishop describing the Amazon’s ecological crisis as “a true apocalypse”. The synod’s theme is “new paths for the Church and for integral ecology”. In last week’s email interview
Meanwhile: Pope gets stuck in elevator
September 05, 2019
Thousands waited anxiously for Pope Francis to appear at the window of the Apostolic Palace to say the Angelus on Sunday. When he arrived, seven minutes late, he apologised for the delay, explaining that he had been trapped in a lift for 25 minutes. The fault was apparently caused by a drop in voltage, causing
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