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The Traditional Anglican Communion has requested a Personal Ordinariate in the United Kingdom.
Irish children are safer today in the Catholic Church than before, Cardinal Seán Brady has said.
BP has donated $1 million to a Catholic charity helping fishermen affected by the oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico.
The National Museum of Catholic Art and History in New York has been forced to close.
Mgr Guido Marini has celebrated Mass ad orientem in the Roman Basilica of St Mary Major.
George Weigel says American Catholics have arrived a critical moment in their history.
Michael Sean Winters argues that Pope Benedict is “emphatically is not looking for a culture war”.
George Anderson SJ is dismayed by France’s ban on the burqa.
Fr James Martin SJ is outraged by James Carroll’s attack on priestly celibacy.
Theologian Tina Beattie argues that the bishops are “the most brutal and ignorant of moral dictators“.
Marcel LeJeune lists his 50 favourite saints’ quotations.
And Fr Tim Finigan reports on a go-kart competition for French priests.
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Rome Reports describes the Bolivian President Evo Morales’s audience with Pope Benedict yesterday as “spontaneous and impolite” (video).
The Belfast Telegraph claims that Cardinal Seán Brady has asked Pope Benedict to appoint an “archbishop in waiting” to succeed him as Primate of All-Ireland.
The Irish National Board for Safeguarding Children has asked Archbishop Diarmuid Martin to produce evidence that parishes are not adhering to abuse guidelines.
A village postmaster fears that he will lose 95 per cent of his business if he is forced to close his post office during the Pope’s visit to Coventry in September.
Cardinal Pell has called for tougher action against abusers after the Church confirmed that two Irish priests accused of molesting girls were still performing priestly duties in Australia.
A group of Catholic scholars has argued that attempting to break trade unions is a mortal sin.
The Pope has given permission for a married father of six to be ordained a Catholic priest.
Fr Donald Cozzens says it’s foolish to expect bishops to be held accountable for their actions.
Alma Guillermoprieto of the New York Review of Books examines the Maciel case.
Fr Rob Johansen asks whether the new English translation of the Mass is a disaster or an opportunity.
Simon Rowney wonders if the 83-year-old Pope Benedict “can drag Richard Dawkins into the modern world”.
And Rima Fakih, reportedly the first Muslim Miss USA, attended a Catholic school in New York.
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Cardinal Seán Brady has issued an apology for his role in the case of Ireland’s most notorious paedophile priest. Andrew Brown argues that he must step down.
The Pope will sign his long-awaited letter to the Irish faithful on Friday.
The Telegraph reports that the Pope will address half a million Catholics at a series of open-air Masses on the first-ever papal state visit to Britain and publishes an itinerary. John Haldane previews the visit.
The Vatican has denied that a bishop is involved in a sex scandal in Brazil that centres on an 82-year-old monsignor.
An Indian bishop has been bailed after police booked him for violating Madhya Pradesh state’s law on religious conversion.
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Love is “the badge of the Christian“, Pope Benedict XVI said in his Angelus address yesterday (video here).
The Pope also called on businesses around the world to stem the flow of job losses.
SSPX members have attacked an FSSP church in Mexico.
Meanwhile, Bishop Richard Williamson is continuing to deny the Holocaust.
The reconstruction of Haiti needs to be based on human rights and the principle of subsidiarity, the Holy See’s representative at the UN has said.
The Catholic News Service now has a reporter on the ground in Haiti who will be filing reports all this week.
A Catholic woman is refusing to pay her licence fee over the BBC’s support for abortion.
Almost three quarters of British people support assisted suicide for the terminally ill, according to a BBC poll.
Quality not quantity is the key to Catholic education, Cardinal Seán Brady has told Vatican Radio (audio).
Fr Richard Duffield of the Birmingham Oratory has met Cardinal Seán O’Malley of Boston to discuss Newman’s Cause.
Susan Boyle says she is dreaming of singing for the Pope when he visits Scotland on the first leg of his visit to Britain in September.
The Knights of Columbus are delivering 100,000 prayer books to US armed services personnel.
No Hidden Magenta wonders if Peter Singer and the Catholic Church can end global poverty together.
Fr Dwight Longenecker “shoots at his hunting buddies” with a critique of traditionalism.
And Father Z considers whether to buy the National Catholic Reporter.
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Fr Vincent Twomey, a former student of Pope Benedict, has apologised for implicitly calling for the resignation of Bishop Martin Drennan of Galway over his handling of abuse cases in Dublin archdiocese.
Cardinal Seán Brady has described Cardinal Cahal Daly as “ahead of his time” at the former Primate of All Ireland’s funeral.
Up to 24 American bishops will reach the mandatory retirement age in 2010.
The new Archbishop of Milwaukee has called for Catholics to “sacrifice for the truth”.
Catholic World Report considers why the gay marriage movement lost in Maine.
Czech Cardinal Miloslav Vlk has said that Europe is on the verge of “Islamisation”.
More than two million people attended papal events in 2009.
Security is tightened for the funeral of a Chinese underground bishop.
The Russian Orthodox Church has opened its first seminary outside the former Soviet Union.
The Washington Post says Hollywood is getting more religious.
Atheist Sam Harris and theist Karen Armstrong have a forceful exchange of views in Foreign Policy magazine.
Leading Catholic blogger American Papist has a new home.
And Beliefnet names the 10 top religious pop cultural trends of the last decade.
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