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Quotes of the week
October 31, 2019
“In all the best families, there’s a black sheep” Cardinal Carlos Aguiar Retes of Mexico City criticises Catholics who stole Amazon statues from a church Crux “It is therefore humanity’s destiny to determine the destiny of the universe” Pope Francis, in his new book Our Mother Earth Zenit “There’s no bankruptcy or default” Bishop Nunzio
Meanwhile: Brexit prayers and a very pricey rosary
October 24, 2019
Who deserves the credit – or if you prefer, the blame – for Boris Johnson’s Brexit agreement with the European Union? One Tory MP suggests that it might have been an answer to prayer. Sir David Amess, who was part of a delegation of MPs in Rome for Newman’s canonisation, told the House of Commons
The big story: Statues thrown in Tiber during synod’s final week
October 24, 2019
What happened? A catholic has thrown three controversial statues into Rome’s River Tiber, before posting a video of the incident online. The video shows an unidentified figure removing the statues from the church of Santa Maria in Transpontina before knocking them off the edge of the Ponte Sant’Angelo. The video says it was done to emphasise
The best of the web: A Jesuit empire, Newman’s holy fear, an unexpected conversion
October 24, 2019
Jesuit goals weren’t purely spiritual  Were Jesuit missionaries religious or political?  The answer is both, said Samuel Gregg at Catholic World Report, in a review of Bronwen   McShea’s Apostles of Empire: The Jesuits and New France. McShea shows how “aggressive leadership from Jesuits in France and North America combined with carefully constructed relationships with France’s political
World news: Santiago to Sydney
October 24, 2019
Washington, DC  New McCarrick allegations emerge   The ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick has been accused of sexual abuse by seven more men, taking the total number of accusations to at least nine. McCarrick (pictured) was dismissed from the clerical state by the Vatican earlier this year, after two allegations by men who say he abused them
Quotes of the week
October 24, 2019
“It has been the experience of a thousand lifetimes” Melissa Villalobos, who was miraculously healed by St John Henry Newman, on attending his canonisation Catholic News Service “They should consider us like people who are on life support. If you remove it, the people will die” Bishop Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala says South Sudan needs aid from the US Time
The week ahead: The synod, fallen-away Catholics and the artist’s vocation
October 24, 2019
The Amazon synod concludes on Sunday. On Saturday, the 185 synod delegates will vote on a final document, which will be based on the discussions of the last few weeks. Each paragraph will need two-thirds approval to pass. The document is expected to denounce exploitation of the Amazon region, and may touch on controversial subjects
The best of the web: Whistleblowing seminarians, incivility, confession for couples
October 17, 2019
Priests and seminarians challenge the silence Until recently, wrote Michelle Boorstein at washingtonpost.com, it was practically “unheard of” for Catholic priests and seminarians to go “to investigators, journalists and lawyers with complaints about their superiors”. But the Me Too movement, and the fallout from the McCarrick case, has encouraged them to speak up. “The Washington
The week ahead: Newman thanksgiving, St Faustina film, priestly playright
October 17, 2019
The celebrations of St John Henry Newman’s canonisation are not over yet. Tonight at 7.30 there will be a Mass of Thanksgiving at the Birmingham Oratory, which he founded and where he spent the second half of his adult life. The celebrant is Archbishop Bernard Longley of Birmingham. The Oxford Oratory’s thanksgiving Mass is on
Meanwhile: Lionel Ritchie at the Vatican
October 17, 2019
The Amazon Synod may end on October 27, but for those who can’t get enough of Vatican events concerning the region, a Christmas concert will take place on Saturday December 14 with the theme “We make a network for the Amazon”. The star performers will be Susan Boyle, the Scottish singer and practising Catholic who shot
Quotes of the week
October 17, 2019
“We see so much ambiguity … it would seem many would promote it as a new Mark of the Catholic Church: One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic and Ambiguous” Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas Twitter “The Holy Father never said what Scalfari wrote” Holy See Press Office, after an Italian journalist said the Pope had denied
The big story: John Henry Newman declared a saint
October 17, 2019
What happened? John Henry Newman has been declared the first non-martyr English saint since the 14th century. At a Mass of Canonisation in the Vatican, Pope Francis announced that Newman and four women were now recognised as saints. Newman was beatified by Benedict XVI in 2010. Last year Pope Francis approved the judgment of the
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