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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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