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May 25, 2021

Cardinal Cupich reinstates activist priest accused of abuse

May 25, 2021

“The Review Board has concluded there is insufficient reason to suspect Father Pfleger is guilty of these allegations,” wrote Cardinal Blase Cupich, the Archbishop of Chicago, in a letter to the St Sabina “faith community,” where Fr Pfleger has long served as senior pastor.

Pope launches seven-year journey to total sustainability

May 25, 2021

The Laudato Sí Action Platform “is a journey to realise the integral ecological vision of Laudato Sí… a journey towards total sustainability in the spirit of the integral ecology,” says Salesian Father Josh Kureethadam of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development.

It’s Not All the Bitter Boomers’ Fault

May 25, 2021

Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images I’ve just finished reading Boomers, Helen Andrews’ send-up of her parents’ generation. My parents are Boomers too, but I’m laughing a little, because her assessment is almost exactly the opposite of mine. She blames the Boomers for, well, pretty much everything that’s wrong with modern life, but especially neoliberalism,

Pope Francis turns out troubled Vatican seminary

May 25, 2021

The Holy See Press Office announced on Tuesday that the scandal-plagued St Pius X Preseminary will move to a location outside of the Vatican City State.

Human Comedy, and Divine

May 25, 2021

For most of us, ‘Vatican II’ calls to mind dense collections of documents and divisive debates about the liturgy and the Church in the modern world. There is little that is obviously humorous about it. Yet, as this volume reminds us, it was a deeply human experience as participants gathered from across the globe in intense and unfamiliar circumstances.

A Martyr for all Seasons

May 25, 2021

The British Museum’s dazzling survey of the life and legacy of the cult 12th-century saint Thomas Becket is set to be an unlikely summer blockbuster, reports Guy Hayward