SPIRITED THINKING SINCE 1888
February 15, 2018
Cafod sacks worker accused of sexual misconduct
February 15, 2018
The employee had been at Oxfam at the time
Vatican denies reports that Benedict XVI has neurological disease
February 15, 2018
A German magazine quoted the Pope Emeritus's brother as saying Benedict had a degenerative disease
Florida school shooting was an act of ‘horrifying evil’, says archbishop
February 15, 2018
'With God's help, we can remain strong and resolute to resist evil in all its manifestations'
‘Let’s not make it just about…sins of the flesh’: an interview with Cardinal Cupich
February 15, 2018
The cardinal believes reception of Communion depends on 'conscience'. Does his reasoning add up?
How a parish group dedicated to the Eucharist helped revive a London church
February 15, 2018
The Sodality of the Blessed Sacrament now has hundreds of members across the world
How despots exploit Vatican foreign policy
February 15, 2018
The Holy See is doing little to challenge authoritarian regimes
Pope says he regularly meets abuse survivors on Fridays
February 15, 2018
The Vatican confirmed that the Pope's meetings are regular and ongoing
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February 15, 2018
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Intolerance in India
February 15, 2018
Cardinal Oswald Gracias has expressed “anguish” over rising intolerance in India. Speaking after his election as president of the Catholics Bishops’ Conference of India last week, he said that efforts to divide citizens along religious lines were “harmful for the nation”. It is, perhaps, tempting to dismiss his comments as the kind of thing leaders
The big story of the past seven days
February 15, 2018
✣  Vatican bishop: China is model of Catholic social teaching What happened? A Vatican official gushed over China’s virtues. Bishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo, chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, said: “Right now, those who are best implementing the social doctrine of the Church are the Chinese.” He told Vatican Insider after a short
The best of the Catholic blogosphere
February 15, 2018
✣ Highlights from the week online Britain’s freedoms and a Tory threat “Brexit was supposed to liberate Britons from unaccountable government, PC orthodoxy, and high-handed bureaucracy,” wrote Sohrab Ahmari in Commentary. “But who needs Brussels mandarins when supposed Conservatives in Westminster are beholden to the same orthodoxies? The government is planning to make “an ultra-progressive
Priest ‘shocked’ to be named Lancaster bishop
February 15, 2018
Pope Francis has appointed Canon Paul Swarbrick, a diocesan priest, as the new Bishop of Lancaster. The bishop-elect was born and raised within the diocese before training for the priesthood at Ushaw College, Durham. He was ordained in his home town of Garstang in 1982 and has served in various parishes across the diocese. “I
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