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    • Thursday, 20 July, 2023
      Ireland
      ‘A jigsaw without the picture’: Ireland to excavate 796 baby remains

      Former Red Cross envoy prepares to catalogue bones of children who died at Tuam institution

    • Tuesday, 18 April, 2023
      Chinese politics & policy
      Catholic envoy visits Beijing as China-Vatican tensions simmer

      Deal over appointment of bishops appears to be fraying

      Stephen Chow
    • Monday, 23 January, 2023
      OutlookAmy Kazmin
      Doctrinal battles and intrigue exposed in Gorgeous George’s Vatican memoir

      The book is part of the increasingly public campaign by clerical conservatives to undermine Pope Francis

    • Sunday, 22 January, 2023
      Architecture
      The rebirth of Notre-Dame: from ashes of lead to ‘symbol of hope’

      Paris cathedral on track to reopen late next year after a fire devastated the Gothic masterpiece

      Notre-Dame rector Olivier Ribadeau-Dumas
    • Wednesday, 11 January, 2023
      George Pell
      Australian Cardinal George Pell dies at 81

      Cleric was most senior Catholic official jailed for child sexual abuse before having conviction overturned

      Cardinal George Pell leads a mass in 2008
    • Thursday, 5 January, 2023
      News in-depthPope Benedict XVI
      Pope Francis presides over funeral for ‘taboo-breaking’ predecessor

      Late Pope Benedict’s resignation set new precedent for future heads of the Catholic Church

    • Saturday, 31 December, 2022
      Former Pope Benedict dies aged 95

      First pontiff in 600 years to resign from his post became a focal point for conservatives in his retirement

      Pope Benedict XVI celebrates an open-air mass in a field near Regensburg 12 September 2006.
    • Sunday, 25 December, 2022
      News in-depthNicaragua
      Nicaragua cracks down on Catholic Church

      Daniel Ortega’s regime targets last bastion of dissent with trial of outspoken bishop of Matagalpa

      Rolando Álvarez, bishop of Matagalpa and Esteli and a critic of President Ortega, celebrates mass online at a church where he was taking refuge in May
    • Wednesday, 23 November, 2022
      Tony Barber
      Pope Francis sets off a contest over the future of the Catholic Church

      An unprecedented global consultation of the faithful is galvanising rival liberals and conservatives

      Illustration of a black cross drawn on a grey background. The horizontal line of the cross has an arrow on each end.
    • Thursday, 10 November, 2022
      Vatican
      Vatican’s former audit chief launches €9.3mn legal case over dismissal

      Libero Milone and his deputy lost their jobs after seeking to probe one of church’s ‘off books’ Swiss bank accounts

      Libero Milone, right, greets Pope Francis at the Vatican in April 2016
    • Friday, 13 May, 2022
      News in-depthHong Kong politics
      Arrest of Cardinal Zen send chills through Hong Kong’s Catholic church

      Chinese city’s diocese had already cancelled masses to commemorate Tiananmen Square protests

    • Wednesday, 11 May, 2022
      Hong Kong politics
      Hong Kong police arrest Cardinal Zen under national security law

      Popular singer, scholar and barrister also detained amid crackdown in Chinese territory

      Cardinal Joseph Zen in his residence
    • Sunday, 7 November, 2021
      Vatican
      Vatican to lose £100m of charitable funds in London property sale

      Holy See close to finalising disposal of building at centre of international criminal probe

      Brownstone building at 60 Sloane Avenue
    • Tuesday, 5 October, 2021
      French report denounces sexual abuse by 3,000 priests

      Victims since 1950 number more than 200,000, say investigators for Catholic Church

      Jean-Marc Sauvé, chair of the independent commission on sexual abuse in the Church, speaks to journalists on Tuesday following the release of the report
    • Sunday, 4 July, 2021
      Vatican puts cardinal on trial for financial crimes

      Indictment of Becciu, who once selected saints, marks acceleration of Pope’s reform drive

      Giovanni Angelo Becciu
    • Tuesday, 22 June, 2021
      LGBT+
      Vatican lobbies against Italy’s anti-homophobia law

      Catholic church fears the draft bill could erode ‘freedom of thought’

      Participants walk past the Colosseum in Rome during the annual Pride parade earlier this month. The Vatican has taken diplomatic action against a draft Italian law against homophobia, claiming it curtails Catholic freedom of belief and expression
    • Friday, 4 June, 2021
      Germany
      German cardinal offers to resign over abuse scandal

      Archbishop says he wants to ‘share responsibility for catastrophe of sexual abuse by church officials’

      Cardinal Reinhard Marx’s resignation offer reveals the depth of the crisis engulfing the Catholic Church in Germany
    • Wednesday, 5 May, 2021
      Lauren Fedor
      Catholic bishops risk own goal by attacking Biden on abortion rights

      US clergy could alienate churchgoers already angered by sexual abuse scandals

    • Tuesday, 27 April, 2021
      LexIPOs
      FAAC: Church-owned gatemaker would boost Italian IPOs Premium content

      Comparison with larger listed peers suggests organic growth in region of 6% per year

    • Tuesday, 10 November, 2020
      Sexual misconduct allegations
      Vatican report reveals warnings over disgraced cardinal were ignored

      Theodore McCarrick promoted to top of American church despite allegations of sexual misconduct

    • Friday, 30 October, 2020
      Person in the News
      Wilton Gregory, a fearless churchman

      The first African-American cardinal is close to Pope Francis’s thinking

      Joe Cummings illustration of Person in the News Wilton Gregory
    • Wednesday, 21 October, 2020
      Pope challenges church orthodoxy by voicing support for gay unions

      Liberalising move is likely to delight Catholic reformers but anger religious conservatives

    • Tuesday, 20 October, 2020
      David Gardner
      Why the Pope might tacitly support Joe Biden for US president

      If he wins, the Democratic candidate would be the first Catholic in office since JFK

      Pope Francis addresses the US Congress in 2014. In his latest encyclical, the pontiff takes aim at populism and ‘extremist, resentful and aggressive nationalism’
    • Tuesday, 20 October, 2020
      News in-depthUS presidential election 2020
      Biden puts faith in his Catholicism to win round voters

      Democratic candidate makes gains with section of electorate that backed Trump in 2016

    • Wednesday, 14 October, 2020
      Vatican
      Italian police arrest woman in Vatican financial scandal

      Cecilia Marogna worked for Cardinal Becciu, who was forced by the pope to resign last month

      The arrest is believed to be the first time the Vatican has ever issued an international arrest warrant through Interpol
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