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January 26, 2017

‘She never missed a chance to do something good’: Polish missionary is killed in Bolivia

January 26, 2017

Fellow volunteers describe Helena Kmieć as a 'model of joyful, humble, boundless service'

Little-known Sister who sheltered Jews from the Nazis is honoured in her home town

January 26, 2017

Sister Agnes Walsh's heroism has long been overlooked – her own family learned the full story only last year

Friar: a sense of hope is growing in Aleppo

January 26, 2017

Fr John Luke Gregory said Syrians were seeking to return to ordinary life

What will happen when Trump and Pope Francis finally meet?

January 26, 2017

The US president is likely to get an earful, but on one topic he might receive a word of thanks

A formidable nuncio

January 26, 2017

It was something of a mystery why Archbishop Antonio Mennini was appointed Apostolic Nuncio to Great Britain in 2010. Why did Rome deploy one of its finest troubleshooters to a relatively small and stable Catholic outpost? Archbishop Mennini arrived with an impressive pedigree. He belonged to an old Roman family and his father had served

The big story of the past seven days

January 26, 2017

✣ Donald Trump takes office in divided America What happened? Donald Trump took office as the 45th president of the United States. In his inauguration speech, Trump said: “For too long, a small group in our nation’s Capitol has reaped the rewards of government while the people have borne the cost.” He promised: “That all changes

The best of the Catholic blogosphere

January 26, 2017

✣ Highlights from the week online The priest who used to live on the street Catholic News Agency told the remarkable story of Fr Claude Paradis, once homeless, now a priest. In an interview with the Montreal magazine Journal Metro, Fr Paradis recalled how he went into a downward spiral after moving to the city and

Britain says farewell to Archbishop Mennini

January 26, 2017

Archbishop Antonio Mennini, the papal nuncio to Great Britain, will be transferred to Rome to serve in the Secretariat of State, the department responsible for relations with other states, it was announced last week. Archbishop Mennini, who has been nuncio to Britain for just over six years, will “serve the Holy Father with particular reference

Be like goalkeepers, Pope tells Irish bishops

January 26, 2017

Pope Francis spent almost two hours talking to Ireland’s bishops last week, telling them he wanted to hear their questions, concerns and even criticisms. Pope Francis set aside a feature of bishops’ ad limina visits that began with Benedict XVI: writing a speech to the group, but handing the text to them instead of reading

Vatican advisers clash on Pope’s abuse reforms

January 26, 2017

Two members of Pope Francis’s commission on child protection have clashed over the effectiveness of recent reforms. The psychiatrist Baroness Hollins said that the Pope’s new procedures for hearing cases against bishops were an important step. But Peter Saunders, the founder of Napac (the National Association for People Abused in Childhood), said Francis had “done

Luther wanted to renew the Church, says Pope

January 26, 2017

Pope Francis has told Lutheran pilgrims from Finland that Martin Luther’s intention 500 years ago “was to renew the Church, not divide her”. The Pope was speaking to an Evangelical Lutheran delegation led by Archbishop Kari Mäkinen of Turku, which visits Rome each year during the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. He said: “True

Friar: a sense of hope is growing in Aleppo

January 26, 2017

A Franciscan friar who visited the Syrian city of Aleppo last week has said that the devastation there is beyond what people can imagine. Fr John Luke Gregory, vicar general of the Archdiocese of Rhodes in Greece, said it was “like a whole suburb of London completely flattened. You can’t imagine the devastation. It’s not