Morning Catholic must-reads: 10/10/11
Pope Benedict said yesterday that organised crime is “tearing at the social fabric” during a visit to Calabria, the home of the ‘Ndrangheta (full Italian text). Four Christians were killed in Cairo...
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Cardinal Oswald Gracias has condemned the gang rape of a nun in the Indian state of Orissa as “an act of physical and emotional terrorism“. Fr François Murad was apparently shot dead by members of...
View ArticleToday’s Catholic must-reads: 17/07/13
Pope Francis will not use a bulletproof Popemobile during his trip to Brazil next week. The Pope has appointed Fr Francis Duffy as Bishop of Ardagh and Clonmacnois in Ireland. A bishop in the Indian...
View ArticleChurch agencies in India prepare for massive relief effort
Church charities in India are preparing for massive relief work after Cyclone Phailin left nearly nine million people affected along the east coast of India. John Shumlansky, the representative in...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 18/03/15
“A society can be judged by the way it treats its children,” Pope Francis said at the general audience this morning (full video). Archbishop Philip Wilson of Adelaide has stepped down from a...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 14/07/16
The Church in Orissa is on high alert after the killing of five civilians, including two Christians. Pope Francis made a surprise visit to the Pontifical Commission for Latin America yesterday....
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 02/09/16
A bishop in the Indian state of Orissa has urged persecuted Christians “to ask the intercession of Mother Teresa for peace and prosperity”. Even if ISIS is “defeated as a military force, it will last...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 23/01/17
Christians should take the “love and tenderness of Jesus to every context, even the most impervious and resistant”, Pope Francis said at yesterday’s Angelus (full text, full video). Francis has told El...
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