Today’s Catholic must-reads: 16/01/13
Even atheists “desire to know the face of God“, Benedict XVI said at his general audience this morning (full text, video). After the general audience, the Pope greeted the outgoing US Defence Secretary...
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“The gate that is Jesus is never closed,” Pope Francis said in his Angelus address yesterday (video). Archbishop Georg Gänswein has denied claims that Benedict XVI resigned following a mystical...
View ArticleArchbishop: claim that Benedict had ‘mystical experience’ is false
Archbishop Georg Gänswein, the personal secretary of Benedict XVI, has said that a story about the pope resigning after a “mystical experience” was completely invented. “It was invented from alpha to...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 24/10/13
Archbishop Oscar Romero’s beatification Cause is “on the right path“, Pope Francis has reportedly said. Some 200 members of the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate have reportedly asked Ecclesia Dei to...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 11/02/14
Benedict XVI has told Hans Küng that his “one and final task” is to sustain Francis’s pontificate in prayer, according to La Repubblica (original Italian report). The world may be on the verge of a...
View ArticleBenedict XVI not leading cloistered life, says Vatican spokesman
In retirement, Benedict XVI follows a daily schedule similar to that of any retired bishop or religious: He prays, reads, strolls, talks with people and offers them spiritual advice, the Vatican...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 18/03/14
Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner criticised leaders who “go to take their photo [with Francis], but then do not listen to him” after her audience with the Pope yesterday. Francis will...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 20/03/14
It is “premature to make any forecast” about what the synod of bishops will decide on Communion for the remarried, Cardinal Seán O’Malley has said. The situation in Crimea is “the most difficult...
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President Obama meets Pope Francis for the first time
Pope Francis received American President Barack Obama at the Vatican today. In what was their first encounter, the two leaders spoke in private for more than 50 minutes, an extraordinarily long time...
View ArticleToday’s Catholic must-reads: 21/05/14
This week’s papal visit to the Holy Land is “strictly religious“, Pope Francis said at the general audience today (full text, short video, full video). South Korean Cardinal Andrew Yeom Soo-jung has...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 15/07/14
The Church of England’s decision to ordain women bishops is “a further obstacle on the path” to unity, English Catholic Archbishop Bernard Longley has said. The massive influx of unaccompanied Central...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 09/10/14
Catholics “believe in the development of doctrine, but not doctrinal backflips”, Cardinal George Pell said at a panel discussion in Rome last night. Pope Francis is “following the line of his...
View ArticlePope Emeritus says interreligious dialogue no substitute for mission
Benedict XVI has said that dialogue with other religions is no substitute for spreading the Gospel to non-Christian cultures, and warned against relativistic ideas of religious truth as “lethal to...
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What Cardinal Pell needs to know
I have a question for Cardinal George Pell, who as prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy is supervising the reform of the finances of the Holy See. Your Eminence, are you sure you have been...
View ArticleArchbishop Gänswein: no disagreement between two popes on Communion for...
Archbishop George Gänswein, the prefect of the papal household and personal secretary to the pope emeritus, has said there is no disagreement between Benedict XVI and Pope Francis on the question of...
View ArticleA monsignor sobbed, then silence fell: an eyewitness account of Pope Benedict...
February 11 is a holiday in the Vatican. It is the day when the Holy See celebrates the settlement in 1929 of the so-called “Roman Question”, the resolution of the 59-year stand-off between the Kingdom...
View ArticleBenedict XVI has no regrets about his decision to resign, says aide
Benedict XVI has never doubted or regretted his decision to resign, knowing it was the right thing to do for the good of the Church, Archbishop Georg Gänswein, prefect of the papal household and...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 31/03/15
The Pope’s plan to mark the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide is likely to rile Turkey, reports Inés San Martin. There was “too much talk” of radical curial reform at the start of Francis’s...
View ArticlePope Francis wishes Benedict XVI a happy 88th birthday
Pope Francis has marked the 88th birthday of Benedict XVI by offering morning Mass for the Pope Emeritus. According to Vatican Radio, the Pontiff said: “I would like to remind you that today is the...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 23/07/15
Pope Francis’s approval rating has dipped among Americans, according to a new poll (Husna Haq). The Pope believes that “the future of the Church is in Asia”, Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of Manila has...
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