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Newman, the 19th-century English theologian, philosopher, and convert, will also be declared a Doctor of the Church on November 1 Photo: Catolin

Causes of Saints•Protection of vulnerable people•Rome

Case of mismanagement of abuse allegations could halt canonization of Jesuit Pedro Arrupe

The case not only implicates institutional failures at multiple levels, but forces a reckoning with how the Church remembers its revered leaders. Arrupe’s involvement may have been limited to correspondence, and the surviving documentation does not indicate whether he approved the ordination against advice or simply deferred to others

Causes of Saints•Ecumenism•Local Church

Relic of Saint Thomas More could be exhumed from Anglican church to be venerated by Catholics

More’s head, once placed on a pike above London Bridge as a warning to traitors, was rescued by his daughter, Margaret Roper. After her death, both she and the relic were interred in the Roper family vault beneath St Dunstan’s — a space that has been opened several times in the past two centuries, most recently in 1997, confirming the presence of the skull in a niche.