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November 24, 2016

Submitting dubia is a standard part of Church life. It’s not unreasonable to expect a clear answer

November 24, 2016

Church doctrine and canonical legislation can be complicated to navigate. Dubia seek to end confusion on all sorts of topics

Pope welcomes Vietnamese president to the Vatican

November 24, 2016

The 15-minute meeting follows a steady improvement in relations between the two states

Catholics everywhere should be grateful for the four cardinals’ appeal

November 24, 2016

Abandoning a belief in absolute moral norms would be a catastrophe for the Church

Benedictine prior at Norcia steps down: ‘I do not have the strength to meet the challenges’

November 24, 2016

The community looked after the now destroyed Basilica of St Benedict

Houses of Parliament lit up in red for persecuted Christians

November 24, 2016

Buildings across the country were lit up to mark 'Red Wednesday'

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November 24, 2016

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Standoff at the Vatican

November 24, 2016

Last week was one of the strangest in Rome in recent memory. It began with the news that four cardinals had asked Pope Francis to answer five yes-or-no questions – known in Latin as dubia – about Amoris Laetitia, his exhortation on the family. They had submitted the queries in September, but decided to make

The big story of the past seven days

November 24, 2016

✣ Pope accuses Amoris critics of legalism What happened? Pope Francis has said the bishops who have criticised Amoris Laetitia suffer from a “certain legalism which can be ideological”. His comments came after a group of four cardinals wrote him a letter seeking clarification over some of the teachings in the apostolic exhortation. “Some, as with

The best of the Catholic blogosphere

November 24, 2016

✣ Highlights from the week online Curial voice at next conclave shrinks At Crux, John Allen considered the diminished curial influence in the election of a new pope after Francis’s creation of 17 new cardinals. During his papacy, only 13 per cent of Pope Francis’s cardinal picks have been Vatican officials. Traditionally, at least a quarter

Rise in extremism ‘is destabilising the West’

November 24, 2016

Islamist “hyper-extremism” could destabilise the West, according to a report that studies religious freedom in all 196 of the world’s countries. Aid to the Church in Need’s survey of religious liberty said the “new phenomenon” had emerged since 2014 and was “unprecedented in its violent expression”. Hyper-extremism is characterised by a “radical system of law

Church goes to High Court over school admissions

November 24, 2016

the church is to mount a challenge in the High Court against a ruling by the Government’s schools adjudicator on admission policy to oversubscribed Catholic schools. The Catholic Education Service (CES) had brought in a new system to ensure that the 2,300 Catholic schools in England and Wales follow the same admissions policy. The Certificate

Francis recalls harrowing Year of Mercy visits

November 24, 2016

Meeting a mother mourning a newborn baby and visiting young women rescued from forced prostitution are moments from the Year of Mercy that remain impressed on Pope Francis’s heart. The Pope reviewed the Holy Year in a 40-minute interview aired last Sunday on TV2000, a television station owned by the Italian bishops’ conference. Describing a