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May 04, 2020
In new biography, Benedict XVI laments modern ‘anti-Christian creed’
May 04, 2020
Modern society is formulating an “anti-Christian creed” and punishing those who resist it with “social excommunication,” Benedict XVI has said in a new biography
CDF: Belgian Brothers of Charity hospitals must drop Catholic identity over euthanasia
May 04, 2020
The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has ordered 15 psychiatric hospitals in Belgium which belong to the Brothers of Charity to cease identifying as Catholic institutions after they allowed the euthanization of patients in 2017.
The German bishops are right to acknowledge their predecessors’ sins
May 04, 2020
If all the hierarchy had condemned the regime, the effects on German Catholics would have been incalculable
Will having kids make you happy? That’s not the right question
May 04, 2020
Even if the outcome of having children is greater happiness, that is not its purpose
Echoes of eugenics as a court orders a woman to wear a contraceptive device
May 04, 2020
The court decided that measures should be taken to ensure a woman with “a mild learning disability” could have no more children
Cardinal Sarah: ‘Packaged’ Eucharist proposal is ‘madness’
May 04, 2020
Cardinal Sarah: “We communicate in a dignified way, worthy of God who comes to us.”
Morning Catholic must-reads: 04/05/2020
May 04, 2020
The Blood of St Januarius liquefied on Saturday amid the coronavirus lockdown. Cardinal Sarah has condemned ‘take-out’ Communion as ‘insane’. The Archdiocese of Chicago is planning to resume public Masses with a 10-person limit. Joseph Pronechen writes about the prayer to the Fatima children for intercession during the current pandemic. And Fr Joseph M. Esper
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