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Today’s Catholic must-reads: 11/01/12

Benedict XVI reflected on the meaning of the Last Supper at his general audience this morning (full text of English remarks, video). The Pope has appointed Archbishop Lorenzo Baldisseri, apostolic...

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Today’s Catholic must-reads: 22/02/12

The 40 days of Lent should encourage us to “find new courage to accept with patience and with faith situations of difficulty, affliction and trial“, Pope Benedict said at his general audience this...

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Filming set to begin on Scorsese’s Jesuit epic

Filming is set to begin on Martin Scorsese’s new film about a Portuguese Jesuit priest who travels to Japan in 1638 to spread Christianity there. The legendary director of Goodfellas, Raging Bull and...

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Trailer for Scorsese’s Jesuit epic released

The first official trailer of Martin Scorsese’s much anticipated Silence has been released online. The historical drama set in the 17th century follows the story of two Jesuit priests (Adam Driver and...

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Morning Catholic must-reads: 01/12/16

Archbishop Mark Coleridge has been elected chairman of a commission overseeing a plenary council of the Australian Church in 2020. Pope Francis called for “responsible behaviour” to prevent the spread...

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Morning Catholic must-reads: 22/12/16

Amoris Laetitia does not open “a door to a kind of ‘Catholic divorce'”, Vatican doctrinal chief Cardinal Gerhard Müller has said. Catholics must care for those who are “virtually abandoned at this time...

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Film review: Scorsese’s Silence is magnificent and moving

Martin Scorsese has always had an enigmatic relationship with the Catholic Church. In the past, the rightly revered director has described himself as a “lapsed Catholic”, but during the rounds of...

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Martin Scorsese interview: ‘Catholicism is always in you’

Martin Scorsese is talking about vocations. It’s s a subject he knows something about, having studied at a seminary when he was a young man. In the end – as history and an armful of awards can attest –...

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Scorsese’s Silence has an unexpected relevance to the Communion debate

Martin Scorsese’s new film Silence, like the original Shusaku Endo novel, is a mysterious and complex work of art. It repeatedly catches you off guard – not least in how directly it relates to today’s...

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Silence shows that priests aren’t therapists – they’re here to help save our...

I cried three times when watching Silence at the Covent Garden Odeon. Which is surprising because it’s the least sentimental, most masculine movie you could imagine. It’s a model for the Church. This...

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Morning Catholic must-reads: 01/02/17

Evangelicals must not gloss over fundamental differences with Catholics, the Evangelical Alliance has said in a statement marking the Reformation’s 500th anniversary (full text). The head of the Kenyan...

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Morning Catholic must-reads: 08/02/17

Cardinal Walter Kasper has said he believes that the Pope approves of intercommunion in mixed marriages under certain conditions. The Church is a “law unto itself”, Archbishop Mark Coleridge has told...

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Martin Scorsese: Silence was a search ‘for the core of faith’

Faith and films have been lifelong obsessions for director Martin Scorsese, obsessions that he said have given him moments of peace amid turmoil, but also challenges and frustrations that, in...

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Today’s Catholic must-reads: 11/01/12

Benedict XVI reflected on the meaning of the Last Supper at his general audience this morning (full text of English remarks, video). The Pope has appointed Archbishop Lorenzo Baldisseri, apostolic...

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Today’s Catholic must-reads: 22/02/12

The 40 days of Lent should encourage us to “find new courage to accept with patience and with faith situations of difficulty, affliction and trial“, Pope Benedict said at his general audience this...

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Filming set to begin on Scorsese’s Jesuit epic

Filming is set to begin on Martin Scorsese’s new film about a Portuguese Jesuit priest who travels to Japan in 1638 to spread Christianity there. The legendary director of Goodfellas, Raging Bull and...

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Scorsese’s Jesuit epic gets December US release

Martin Scorsese’s Silence, a historical drama about faith in feudal Japan, will open in time to qualify for the Academy Awards. Paramount Pictures said on Monday that Silence will open with a limited...

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Morning Catholic must-reads: 10/11/16

The majority of Catholics once again voted for the winning candidate in the US election, reports the Catholic News Agency. Donald Trump’s election “gives hope for improvement of the entire system of...

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Morning Catholic must-reads: 22/11/16

Catholics in the West should “adopt parishes, adopt dioceses and adopt people” in Iraq, a Chaldean bishop has said. French authorities have upheld a ban on a video featuring happy children with Down’s...

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Trailer for Scorsese’s Jesuit epic released

The first official trailer of Martin Scorsese’s much anticipated Silence has been released online. The historical drama set in the 17th century follows the story of two Jesuit priests (Adam Driver and...

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