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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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

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

  • 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’

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Friday, 9 October, 2020
    Tony Barber
    Power struggles entangle the Vatican

    Battlegrounds are alleged financial crimes, sexual abuse scandals and Pope Francis’s reform efforts

  • Thursday, 8 October, 2020
    Vatican
    Vatican used charity funds to bet on Hertz credit derivatives

    ‘Gambling’ bets placed under watch of Cardinal Becciu, who was forced to resign last month

  • Tuesday, 29 September, 2020
    News in-depthVatican
    Vatican-gate: more London luxury property deals revealed

    Cardinal Becciu, forced to resign by the Pope last week, oversaw Knightsbridge purchases

  • Monday, 28 September, 2020
    News in-depthPoland
    Law & Justice loses touch with Poland’s moderate Catholics

    Ruling party’s alliance with hardline clerics alienates young seeking spiritual sustenance

  • Friday, 25 September, 2020
    Vatican
    Vatican cardinal resigns in wake of London property investigation

    Giovanni Angelo Becciu steps down unexpectedly having defended Chelsea real estate investment

  • Monday, 13 April, 2020
    Boeing Co
    Boeing v nuns: US religious orders push for transparency

    A group of shareholders is hoping the 737 Max crisis will give its campaign extra momentum

  • Tuesday, 7 April, 2020
    Cardinal Pell wins appeal against child abuse conviction

    Australian court rules there was a significant chance an innocent person had been convicted 

  • Sunday, 8 March, 2020
    Media
    Catholic Herald faces unholy row with Church over unpaid dues

    Dispute over rent arrears and restoration fees at 132-year-old religious weekly

  • Friday, 6 December, 2019
    Hong Kong
    Hong Kong’s Catholics defy Vatican over protests

    Church deeply divided as Holy See accused of not wanting to offend Beijing

  • Sunday, 24 November, 2019
    Japanese society
    Pope Francis decries nuclear weapons during Nagasaki mass

    Pontiff’s visit comes as new immigrants boost small but historic Catholic population

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