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December 03, 2019

The Holy See will welcome 33 refugees on the Greek island of Lesbos to Italy on Thursday. Bishop Richard Malone of Buffalo will resign tomorrow, reports Rocco Palmo. A Chinese bishop has told delegates at a conference that “Love for the homeland must be greater than the love for the Church”. Pope Francis has urged

This is the best chance to heal the rift between Rome and the US

November 07, 2019

One of the deepest rifts in the Church today is that between Rome and the United States. As with most strained relationships, there is no single cause but many. It is difficult to say precisely when divisions emerged, but it was not long after the election of Pope Francis in 2013. By 2018 the strains

‘I expected more’: Why whistleblowers are surprised by the Buffalo inquiry

November 07, 2019

When the Vatican announced the new law Vos estis lux mundi, reforming the way the Holy See investigates claims of abuse cover-up, veteran Church-watcher Rocco Palmo summed up the thoughts of observers everywhere in a single tweet: “For all the ink [spilt] and reaction around [the world] over the Pope’s new norms,” he said, “US

In ten years we’ll know if the synod succeeded

October 31, 2019

The word “revolutionary” has been overused since the election of Pope Francis in 2013. But it might apply to the Amazon Synod which concluded last Sunday. The gathering of bishops endorsed three proposals which may prove to be turning points in the long story of the Catholic Church. The 181 synod fathers called for the

Morning Catholic must-reads: 28/10/19

October 27, 2019

Participants in the Amazon synod heard “the cry of the poor, together with that of the earth”, Pope Francis said at yesterday’s Angelus (full text, full video). Lourdes is seeing a “statistical explosion” in pickpocketing. Germany’s largest Catholic parish will open on January 1. John Allen, Rachel Donadio, JD Flynn, Andrea Gagliarducci, Sandro Magister, Rocco

Morning Catholic must-reads: 23/10/19

October 23, 2019

The bishops of war-torn South Sudan have issued an “urgent call for peace and justice”. The United Arab Emirates has entered a partnership with Unesco to rebuild two Catholic churches in Mosul. The Archdiocese of Sydney has opened the Cause of Eileen O’Connor. Rocco Palmo asks if we’re seeing the “revenge of the statues” at

Morning Catholic must-reads: 08/10/19

October 07, 2019

Neither the Irish government nor University College Dublin are expected to send an official representative to Newman’s canonisation. Amazon synod participants should “respect the warnings” of critics, Peruvian Cardinal Pedro Barreto has said. President Rodrigo Duterte has invited Russian Orthodox missionaries to the Philippines. John Allen says that Amazon synod relator Cardinal Hummes has placed

Morning Catholic must-reads: 07/10/19

October 06, 2019

At yesterday’s Angelus, Pope Francis asked Catholics to pray for the Amazon synod “so that it might be lived in fraternal communion and in the docility to the Holy Spirit” (full text, full video). Dan Collyns, Lebo Diseko, The Economist, Delia Gallagher, Rocco Palmo and Stefano Pitrelli comment on the Amazon synod. Edward Pentin argues that a