The Vatican has written to the Austrian bishops demanding that they take action against a group of priests whose “Call to Disobedience” was criticised by the Pope on Holy Thursday.
Some 3,500 people were baptised at the Easter Vigil in Hong Kong on Saturday.
Archbishop Vincent Nichols of Westminster has said that “quite frankly a lot of people don’t understand” why the British Prime Minister David Cameron intends to legalise same-sex marriage.
Fr Federico Lombardi says that the decision to ask a married couple to write the Pope’s Via Crucis meditations was a “significant step” in the preparation for the World Meeting of Families in Milan.
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