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The Vatican Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments is to issue its formal approval of the new English translation of the complete Roman Missal later today.
The notorious Foreign Office memo mocking Pope Benedict XVI is now online, as is the “stakeholder positioning chart“. The official responsible for the memo has reportedly gone into hiding.
Cardinal William Levada has defended the Vatican’s response to the abuse crisis in an interview with PBS (full transcript).
Catholicism is up by 33 per cent in Africa and 16 per cent in Asia, USA Today reports.
The US bishops have condemned Arizona’s “draconian” new immigration law.
The province of Ontario is offering funding to help Catholic schools develop their own sex education course, following a clash with the Church.
Jesuit Fr Francis Xavier Dumortier is the new rector of the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.
The leader of the Taizé community has presented Pope Benedict with a Chinese Bible.
Norway’s Catholic Church has been informed of seven new possible cases of paedophilia by priests.
The New York Times profiles Jeffrey Anderson, the lawyer suing the Vatican.
Ross Douthat says the spate of episcopal resignations are good for the Church.
And Ashley Makar explains what the microbial biology of cheese has to do with Benedictine spirituality.
Morning Catholic must-reads
Benedict XVI returned from Castel Gandolfo for a few hours yesterday to address more than 21,000 pilgrims in St Peter’s Square (video).
Cardinal Sodano has given an interview to L’Osservatore Romano explaining why he made an outspoken defence of the Pope on Easter Sunday.
The New York Times reports on a bishop in Norway who resigned in May after admitting he had abused a boy.
NPR investigates whether the Vatican can be sued in US courts.
Rome Reports defends Benedict XVI’s record on battling sex abuse in the Church (video).
George Weigel attempts to separate truth from falsehood in the abuse scandal.
AP suggests that future popes will be closely vetted following the crisis.
The Pew Research Centre finds that Protestants are more critical than Catholics of the Pope’s handling of the crisis.
The wrong actions of some do not justify the vilification of all, Archbishop Donald Wuerl argues in the Washington Post.
Sholto Byrnes of the New Statesman wonders what has happened to the Catholic Church he grew up in.
Austen Ivereigh is shocked by claims that the Legion of Christ bribed senior Vatican cardinals. His colleague, Michael Sean Winters, isn’t.
Tim Drake speculates on Archbishop Gomez’s priorities as the future head of Los Angeles archdiocese.
Kathryn Jean Lopez clashes with Maureen Dowd over the status of women in the Church.
Ross Douthat wonders why the number of Americans who believe in the Resurrection is falling.
And Westminster Auxiliary Bishop George Stack gives the thumbs up to a new film about a Carmelite community in London.
Today’s Catholic must-reads
The National Catholic Reporter claims that the Legion of Christ regularly gave ‘bribes’ to three senior Vatican cardinals at the behest of their founder.
The Daily Telegraph reports that Hitler “wanted to steal” the Turin Shroud.
The New York Times says the Vatican’s bureaucracy is struggling to cope with the abuse crisis.
Ross Douthat suggests that “the post-scandal Catholic Church may end up more Rome-centric than ever”.
Joaquin Navarro-Valls has written a robust defence of the Pope.
A rabbi has called the media coverage of the Church abuse scandal “one-dimensional“.
Bishop William Lori says we should be thanking the Pope “for helping the Church confront this crisis in a way that benefits victims“.
Jason Berry assesses Cardinal Levada’s role in the Vatican’s “risky strategy against the media”.
Leonard Klein, a married Catholic priest, asks: “What can the Catholic Church learn from married priests?“.
And Andrew M Brown hails “a wonderful film that shows what the Catholic Church does best”.
Morning Catholic must-reads
Pope Benedict XVI said priests are called to be messengers of hope and peace at his general audience yesterday (video).
The New York Times has taken note of critics of its reporting on the Pope and sexual abuse, publishing reports on Fr Thomas Brundage’s testimony in the Murphy case and Cardinal William Levada’s critique of the paper (the cardinal’s full text here).
The New York Daily News, the fifth most-widely circulated daily newspaper in America, has published an editorial defending the Pope over the Murphy case.
The Swiss bishops have admitted they underestimated the scale of the abuse problem and urged victims to come forward.
A Mexican archdiocese has cancelled a mission after 10 young people were murdered, reportedly by drug traffickers.
A Brazilian court has delayed the trial of a rancher accused of ordering the murder of Sister Dorothy Stang.
A new website dedicated exclusively to covering Pope Benedict XVI and the sex abuse crisis has just been launched.
Ross Douthat draws attention to a remarkable graph of the American priestly abuse crisis and defends his interpretation of it.
Fr James Martin SJ urges Catholics not to blame the media for the abuse scandal, while his colleague, Michael Sean Winters, says it’s right to criticise poor reporting.
And, finally, a reminder that all the Holy Week celebrations at the Vatican will be broadcast live on the internet here.
Today’s Catholic must-reads
The presiding judge in the “Murphy case” says that not a single journalist has contacted him to check the accuracy of the New York Times story on the priest who abused 200 deaf children.
The Bishops of England and Wales have issued a message today ahead of the general election, urging Catholics to question candidates about the place of religion in society.
Haiti’s major seminary will reopen on April 6.
Bradley Brooks reports on the Sisters who are standing up to gunmen in their efforts to save the Amazon rain forest.
Jason Berry considers what Pope Benedict must do to combat the abuse scandal.
Fr Ciro Benedettini reflects on “a difficult and frustrating week” at the Vatican press office.
Fr Vincent Twomey, a theologian and former student of Cardinal Ratzinger, says he believes that Benedict XVI, will “weather the storm“.
Ross Douthat argues that Catholic leaders shouldn’t complain about media double standards on sex abuse.
Psychology Today lists “six important points you don’t hear about regarding clergy sexual abuse in the Catholic Church”.
Fr James Martin SJ traces the causes of sexual abuse by the clergy for the Huffington Post.
And a soldier who ‘died’ five times will become a Catholic this Easter.
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