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December 21, 2018

Pope Francis tells Curia: ‘Spare no effort’ in bringing abusers to justice

December 21, 2018

Pope Francis strongly condemned clerical sex abuse in his annual Christmas speech to the Roman Curia Friday, promising that the Church leadership will never again cover-up abuse or treat such cases lightly. “Let it be clear that before these abominations the Church will spare no effort to do all that is necessary to bring to

Why we should be able to celebrate the Old Rite in the vernacular

December 21, 2018

The Chalcedonian vocabulary which attempts to describe the hypostatic union in Christ may not be perfect, but its tautness does help us to resist emphasizing unduly one nature over and against the other. The ineffable character of our Lord’s ontic constitution requires us to resist softening the irreducible strangeness of the God-man. This is true

Vietnam could allow the Holy See to appoint a nuncio ‘in the near future’

December 21, 2018

Negotiators are trying to establish full diplomatic relations between the Vatican and the communist state

What is Pope Francis doing in 2019?

December 21, 2018

The Pope has a busy schedule, but February's meeting on abuse could be a defining moment

Pope Francis meets Nobel Peace Prize winner Nadia Murad

December 21, 2018

Murad, who was enslaved by ISIS, received the Nobel prize for her 'efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war'

Morning Catholic must-reads: 21/12/18

December 21, 2018

Vietnam has reportedly agreed to allow the Holy See to appoint a resident nuncio “in the near future”. Pope Francis met the Nobel Prize-winning former ISIS slave Nadia Murad yesterday. No churches will be seized from the Moscow Patriarchate, the head of the new Orthodox Church of Ukraine has said. Rocco Palmo explains how the