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Church halts Fr Walter Ciszek’s path to beatification

Pope Leo calls for renewed commitment to protect children and vulnerable adults

Savannah bishop urges Catholics to draw courage from Georgia martyrs

Pope Leo XIV tells Angola’s young people to build a more just and peaceful world

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Recovering a sense of the Church as a given reality

As communal religious identity has faded, many Catholics experience their faith as a repeated choice rather than a settled fact

China steps up pressure on underground Catholics, rights group says

Pope Leo XIV says he has no wish to engage in dispute with Trump

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Pope Leo XIV named in Time’s 100 most influential people of 2026

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Misreading Leo XIV: Africa, not America, is the focus

Two Catholic voices on the President, the Pope and the limits of power

Christopher Hale and Fr Robert Sirico

Rocamadour, the Black Madonna and Houellebecq's crisis of belief

How fatherlessness fuels the manosphere

In praise of the married man

A Lenten leveller in the Tyne Valley

The price we pay for not paying attention

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Recovering a sense of the Church as a given reality

Hungary after Orbán

When rebellion loses its object

Will there be food in Heaven?

Clement Harrold

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Misreading Leo XIV: Africa, not America, is the focus

Synodality or evangelisation: where will Leo lead the Church?

From Holy Week to world stage: Leo XIV’s call for peace

What Pope Leo’s Easter decisions reveal about his priorities

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How fatherlessness fuels the manosphere

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The price we pay for not paying attention

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Why Catholics should take the dating crisis seriously

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Pope Leo XIV named in Time’s 100 most influential people of 2026

Time magazine has included Pope Leo XIV in its 2026 list of the world’s most influential people, with Martin Scorsese praising the Pope’s “bravery” and “common touch”

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‘The blessedness of peace-making’ from On the Lord’s Sermon on the Mount

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A Lenten leveller in the Tyne Valley

The empty tomb and the promise of the resurrection

Brother René Stockman

Homily for Divine Mercy Sunday

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When rebellion loses its object

A provocative collection asks what becomes of a subculture defined by transgression when the mainstream abandons its own rules

Zurbarán: painting, piety and the power of stillness

Melanie McDonagh

An uninspiring portrait

Melanie McDonagh

Angels in the Sistine Chapel

Edward Barrett-Shortt

Evelyn Waugh’s death, sixty years on

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Pope Leo: A Bridge-Builder

In his first months, Leo XIV looks like a listener: he calls synodality an attitude of openness, maintains Church teaching on marriage and sexuality, and signals cautious openness to broader Latin Mass celebration. The aim is less polarisation, deeper dialogue, a bridge builder who consults widely and will lead decisively.

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A Lost Chance for Ireland

Elites blocked Maria Steen’s candidacy, narrowing democracy and silencing Catholic conservatives’ voices.

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All Saints’ Eve

Halloween’s vigil confronts death with Christian hope, not fear or superstition today.

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AI: helping angel or diabolic machine?

Pope Leo’s warnings and hopes for AI, probing dignity, labour, justice, and Church responsibilities for governing algorithms.

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On the limits of liberalism

Sr Camilla and her merry band of nuns

Christianity is a civilising force in a polarised world

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