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Cardinal Mathieu leaves Iran after evacuation backed by Pope Leo XIV
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German bishops criticised for appointing priest linked to gay seminary scandal to abuse advisory board
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The Price of Love and the limits of a parallel society
A recent speech on integration and Sabatina James’s powerful memoir raise unsettling questions about whether a country can sustain two incompatible moral and legal worlds within its borders
Declan J. Ganley
The Iran conflict and the Church’s criteria for a just war
Fr Gavan Jennings
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The prospects and perils of reviving gender roles
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As a gay man, can I date for emotional companionship?
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Conscience and catastrophe in the Thirty Years’ War
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Choosing to be present
Dominic Perrem
Women’s magazines are narrowing the space for dissent
Delphine Chui
Encouraging one another in dark times
James Jeffrey
Seven children is a small family
Dominic Perrem
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Daisy-Mae Inglese
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Delphine Chui
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The prospects and perils of reviving gender roles
As young people rediscover gender roles, the Church must show the difference between authentic tradition and online chauvinism
Portia Berry-Kilby
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As a gay man, can I date for emotional companionship?
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On the woman at the well
St John Chrysostom
The boundary between Original Innocence and Redemption
Pope St John Paul II
Is giving up alcohol for Lent enough? One of the Herald chaplains answers your question
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Conscience and catastrophe in the Thirty Years’ War
A powerful German novel explores how the fraught relationship between faith and political power sowed the seeds of disaster
Francis Phillips
Staging faith and folly: three choral works
Michael White
Perceiving God in creation: the angel-filled world of Francis Thompson
Joseph Shaw
Contextualising the Great Seige
HJA Sire
Reason, doubt and grace in Why I Am Not an Atheist
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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.
John Cornwell
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Ken Craycraft
Sr Camilla and her merry band of nuns
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Christianity is a civilising force in a polarised world
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