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Halloween should teach Christians to laugh in the face of death

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Vatican foreign minister: ‘Imperfections’ of China deal ‘are evident’

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Vatican sends winter aid to Ukraine as Russian attacks intensify

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The real scandal is not bishops praying for Trump but regretting it

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Jan van Eyck’s portraits reveal the human dignity at the heart of his art

The National Gallery’s landmark exhibition brings together all nine of the Netherlandish master’s surviving painted portraits, revealing an artist whose unflinching realism was inseparable from his understanding of the human soul

Melanie McDonagh
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Congolese Church supports communities facing both war and Ebola outbreak

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