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April 05, 2019

Mexican priest: ‘From Spain we received … the true faith’

April 05, 2019

Fr Hugo Valdemar, the canon penitentiary of the Archdiocese of Mexico, said Monday that through Spanish missionaries we have received from Spain “the greatest thing we Mexicans have, the true faith.” Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador wrote last month to Pope Francis and the King of Spain, Felipe VI, asking for an apology for

Former Guam archbishop ‘deeply saddened’ by conviction, maintains innocence

April 05, 2019

Emeritus Archbishop Anthony Apuron of Agaña said Thursday that despite the failure of his appeal and the confirmation of a conviction against him, he is innocent of sexual abuse against minors. “I am deeply saddened by the decision of the Holy Father to confirm the decision of the court of first instance,” Apuron said in

Gregory promises DC Catholics ‘I will always tell you the truth’

April 05, 2019

Archbishop Wilton Gregory made an uncompromising commitment to transparency during his introduction to the faithful of Washington, DC, at a press conference Thursday. “First of all, I believe that the only way I can serve this local archdiocese is by telling you the truth,” said Gregory at his formal introduction as the next Archbishop of

‘As a bishop, it is my duty to warn the West’: An interview with Cardinal Sarah

April 05, 2019

Cardinal Robert Sarah is publishing the third of his book-length interviews with Nicolas Diat: The Day is Far Spent. An unflinching diagnosis, but one full of hope in the midst of the spiritual and moral crisis of the West. 1) In the first part of your book, you describe “a spiritual and religious collapse.” How

Morning Catholic must-reads: 05/04/19

April 05, 2019

Polish Primate Archbishop Wojciech Polak has criticised a book-burning at a parish in Gdańsk. Patriarch Bechara Boutros al-Rahi has said that “structures of sin” are driving Lebanon to “the brink of economic and financial collapse”. Archbishop Éric de Moulins-Beaufort of Reims is the new president of the French bishops’ conference (French report). Fr Antonio Spadaro

Welcome to the Daily Herald

April 05, 2019

My wife and I began the first six years of the 21st century in England. As Americans, we’d fallen in love with another country, with the customs and habits of people quite different from us, with the architectural layers of medieval towns like Cambridge where I had done my PhD, and where I was working