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Crisis deepens in Cologne as cardinal pins hopes on March abuse report

Feb. 3, 2021 Catholic News Service COLOGNE, Germany  The Archdiocese of Cologne, which has the largest membership in the German-speaking world with almost 2 million Catholics, is sliding into a crisis of confidence. The German Catholic news agency KNA reports that parish councils, priests and most recently the diocesan council have criticized Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki for his handling of an abuse investigation, and the ferocity of their criticism is unusual. Tim Kurzbach, archdiocesan council chairman, said in late January that Cardinal Woelki had failed as a moral authority and was not confronting the problem. In protest, the council, made up of elected representatives of Catholic laypeople, said it was suspending its cooperation on diocesan reforms.

Fulani have done a lot of havoc in Oke Ogun —Archbishop Abegunrin

Share The Catholic Archbishop of Ibadan, Most Reverend Gabriel Ojeleke Abegunrin, is a son of Oke-Ogun. He was born in Iwere-Ile, headquarters of Iwajowa Local Government Area of Oyo State. Abegunrin, who is the President of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Ibadan EcclesiasticalProvince, spoke with newsmen after a meeting of the Bishops of the province, recently. SAM NWAOKO brings excerpts of the interview:   Your Grace, you are from Oke Ogun area of Oyo State, beleaguered by the herdsmen trouble for some time now. Before the escalation of the herdsmen crisis as we know it today, what was it like before now? What are you hearing from home in Iwere-Ile?

Monsignor Mark Langham, well-liked priest and Cambridge University Catholic chaplain – obituary

Father Langham pouring prosecco at the terrace of Fisher House, the chaplaincy in Cambridge, 2016 Mgr Mark Langham, who has died aged 60, was until recently Chaplain of Fisher House, the Catholic Chaplaincy to the University of Cambridge, and a former administrator of Westminster Cathedral. He was one of the outstanding Catholic priests of his generation, and his early death has robbed the Church of one who would surely have played a major role in future years. He was born in London on November 28 1960 and educated at the Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School near Holland Park. Feeling strongly called to the priesthood, he wanted to enter the seminary, but was advised by Cardinal Hume to go to university and see something of the world first.

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