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Iraqis mark Christmas ‘in silence and tears’

January 07, 2016

Catholic patriarchs from the Middle East encouraged their troubled people to find inner peace at Christmas and urged the world to remember them. Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Louis Sako of Baghdad said: “In Iraq, we will celebrate the birth of Christ who comes into our hearts in silence and tears.” “We remain sustained by an inner

January 10 to January 16

January 07, 2016

Cardinal Nichols (Westminster) Wed: Meeting with Bishops’ Conference Staff, London, 10am. Fri: Archbishop’s Council Meeting, London, 9.30am. Archbishop Longley (Birmingham) Sun: Parish Visitation, Birmingham Oratory. Thu: English ARC Executive Meeting, London, 11am. Fri: Archbishop’s Council Meeting, Archbishop’s House, Birmingham, 9.30am. Sat: World Youth Day Prep Day, St Mary’s College, Oscott, 1pm. Archbishop McMahon (Liverpool) Sun:

Pontiff asks Curia to show virtue

January 07, 2016

In his annual address to the Roman Curia, Pope Francis outlined a set of virtues necessary to ensure good leadership in the Church. In 2014 Pope had used his address to list 15 “illnesses” the Curia is often prone to, such as “spiritual Alzheimer’s”, “existential schizophrenia”, “hypocrisy typical of the mediocre”, the “terrorism of gossip” and

In brief

January 07, 2016

Sydney archbishop thanks well-wishers The Archbishop of Sydney is in hospital after being diagnosed with a serious condition of the nervous system. Archbishop Anthony Fisher, 55, was hospitalised after doctors discovered Guillain-Barré syndrome. On the diocesan website he thanked well-wishers. Devil is lying in wait, Francis tells faithful The Devil is “always lying in wait

Prize Crossword 0421

January 07, 2016

Cryptic across 1 Alcohol made cherubim flail (13) 8 Sarah’s one to put time into: a girl, Catholic and ultimately rich (9) 9 God is fair to Rome the Italian conceded (3) 10 Get shot of a number recoiling at an all-time low (5) 12 Stays the same as the rest (7) 13 Regret runner

Pictures of the week

January 07, 2016

1 Canon Daniel Cronin, a priest of Westminster diocese, presents a copy of his new book, Abounding in Mercy (St Pauls), to Pope Francis. 2 The first group of students in the Licence in Divinity programme at the Maryvale Institute in Birmingham have passed their final exams. 3 Harriet Knowles-Jones, an athlete at Loreto Grammar

Comments of the Week

January 07, 2016

Has the Vatican forgotten St Augustine? SIR – Your report, “No institutional mission to Jews” (December 18), is welcome but (as also in much media reporting of the recent Vatican document) omits a significant part of the story. The new document, far from being a “breakthrough”, is actually a return to apparently forgotten medieval practice

The big story of the past seven days

January 07, 2016

✣ Mother Teresa to be canonised this year What happened? Pope Francis has authorised the canonisation of Blessed Mother Teresa, after the Vatican announced it has recognised a second miracle attributed to her. Her canonisation is expected to take place on September 4 during the Year of Mercy. Earlier this month, the Archbishop of Calcutta

The best of the Catholic blogosphere

January 07, 2016

✣ Highlights from the week online Poor Christians What is good for the world’s poor may be bad for Christianity, according to a Christmas Day blog on the Economist website. In Europe “priests and ministers are preaching to ever-emptier pews”. Reasons include the greater number of non-Christians through immigration, creeping secularism “and a trend among

Walsingham is designated a minor basilica

January 07, 2016

Pope Francis has given the Catholic National Shrine of Our Lady at Walsingham in England a rare honour. The shrine – specifically the Slipper Chapel, the Chapel of Reconciliation and the Domain – has been granted minor basilica status. The announcement was made by Bishop Alan Hopes of East Anglia on the feast of the

Clinton accepts ISIS killings are genocide

January 07, 2016

Hillary Clinton has put her weight behind a campaign to recognise the persecution of Iraqi and Syrian Christians by Islamist extremists as genocide. The US Democrat presidential candidate told a meeting in New Hampshire that she believed there was “enough evidence” to prove that the scale of violence committed against religious minorities by ISIS terrorists constituted

Christmas messages condemn ISIS

January 07, 2016

Senior religious and political figures condemned violence in the name of religion and spoke of the threat ISIS poses to Christians in their Christmas messages. “Any claim to justify violence in the name of God is abhorrent. It is always a corruption of true faith,” said Cardinal Vincent Nichols in his homily given at Midnight

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