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July 17, 2019

Patriarch Louis Sako has said he fears that “another edition of ISIS” will appear in Iraq. Notre-Dame was close to collapsing during April’s fire, reports the New York Times. Ucanews.com reports that opposition to new Vatican guidelines for clergy is growing among Chinese Catholics. George Weigel asks what we really know about the attempted assassination

The cautionary tale of Pastor Amy

July 17, 2019

Trouble roils Manhattan’s Riverside Church, the neo-Gothic behemoth on the Upper West Side that serves as one of the enduring bastions of American liberal Protestantism. As the New York Post (where I serve as op-ed editor) first reported last week, the church and its pastor, the Rev Dr Amy Butler, mutually parted ways amid accusations

Full text of Cardinal Mueller’s analysis on the working document of the Amazon synod

July 17, 2019

Cardinal Gerhard Mueller, who was prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith from 2012 and 2017, presented an analysis with a series of objections and criticisms of theInstrumentum Laboris, or working document, of the Synod on the Amazon, to be held in Rome in October. The following is the full text of

When Islamic State came, the monks had just finished hiding the manuscripts

July 17, 2019

The first time a band of Islamic State militants “visited” the monks, they presented the monks with a kind of suggestion, in a nonthreatening manner: “Why don’t you become a Muslim?” Already, the four monks at the ancient Syriac Catholic Mar Behnam Monastery in Khidr, Iraq, had felt they were under siege. Ten days earlier,

London Oratory Schola’s US tour brings music from Old Spain to the New World

July 17, 2019

Franciscan mission priest St. Junipero Serra would perhaps recognize some of the music that will be sung in an upcoming tour of the London Oratory Schola Cantorum Boys Choir in Utah and California, which will include three of the Spanish missions. The schola, perhaps best known for its work featured in the soundtracks for the

Morning Catholic must-reads: 17/07/19

July 17, 2019

California’s Crystal Cathedral will be dedicated as Christ Cathedral today. Rome authorities are cracking down on “skip-the-line vendors” outside the Vatican Museums. Hopes for a patriarchate for Ukrainian Greek Catholics are rising, Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk has said. George Demacopoulos says that the Pope’s decision to give relics of St Peter to the Ecumenical Patriarchate is