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February 27, 2019

Disaster for Pell as his lawyer appears to concede his guilt

February 27, 2019

Cardinal Pell’s plans to appeal his conviction for rape have been thrown into confusion by an extraordinary statement from his own lawyer which describes the assault of which the cardinal was found guilty as a “plain vanilla sexual penetration case where the child is not actively participating”. In the course of arguing that Pell did

Vatican announces canonical investigation of Cardinal Pell

February 27, 2019

The day Australian Cardinal George Pell was jailed in Melbourne after being found guilty of child sexual abuse, the Vatican announced his case would be investigated by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. “After the guilty verdict in the first instance concerning Cardinal Pell, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith will

The Church is experiencing a ‘crisis of not following Jesus Christ,’ says Archbishop Gomez

February 27, 2019

Archbishop Jose Gomez of Los Angeles responded to the Vatican’s summit on abuse by stressing the need for a renewal of fidelity within the entire Catholic Church. “This crisis in the Church is an issue of accountability and transparency. But most importantly, at its heart, this is a crisis of personal fidelity,” he said in

Duterte: Stop threatening priests or ‘deal with me’

February 27, 2019

After calling the country’s Catholic bishops “useless fools” who should be “killed,” Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has now warned anyone against harming priests and prelates. The president made the warning after being told that people close to his family have threatened bishops and priests critical of his administration’s policies, reported ucanews.com. “Do not touch the

Traditional Latin Mass attendees more devout and orthodox, study says

February 27, 2019

Catholics in the US who attend the traditional Latin Mass a far more faithful to Church teaching than those who attend the Novus Ordo, a survey has found. A study led by Fr Donald Kloster compared Catholics who attend the traditional Mass (TLM) with the results of previous surveys of Catholics at large, the vast

Morning Catholic must-reads: 27/02/19

February 27, 2019

A new survey suggests there is “a striking variance” between Catholics attending Ordinary and Extraordinary Form Masses (Joseph Shaw, Steve Skojec). Cardinal Leonardo Sandri has laid the foundation stone of a Coptic Catholic Cathedral in Egypt. The Church is experiencing “a crisis of not following Jesus Christ”, Archbishop José Gomez of Los Angeles has said.