The Week in Review: Pope Leo’s back, women deacons proposed and hologram Fulton Sheen

Pope Leo XIV’s visit brings fresh hope to Catholics in Uruguay, Argentina and Peru

Bishops across the three countries expect the Pope’s tour to encourage missionary renewal, engage young people and strengthen calls for unity, peace and care for the Amazon

Nathalie Raffray

How Egypt’s small Catholic community is making a big social impact

Nathalie Raffray

North Dakota bishops back 60 per cent threshold for constitutional amendments

Fulton Sheen AI hologram plan sparks backlash among Catholics

Streamer Clavicular pleads not guilty to rape and drugging charges

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What horror stories can teach Catholics about fear, evil and God

Patrick Neve

Recovering the lost art of fraternity

Luke Collins

‘The Mission’ at 40: when Hollywood took Catholicism seriously

Clement Harrold

How Scott Hahn transformed the way Catholics read the Bible

Ruadhan Jones

The temptation of Catholic NIMBYism

In an age of ill-founded certainty, Catholics need Plato

Patrick Neve

America’s founding and Catholic integralism belong together

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Irish synod assembly calls for Church to move forward with female deacons

The female diaconate is a question which refuses to be silenced among synodal meetings, despite the Church already offering a wide range of teaching prohibiting it.

Vatican highlights catechesis and liturgy for spreading Faith in an ‘epochal change’

New figures show boom in Africa amidst growth of global Church

After Putin, Pope calls Zelensky to discuss ‘humanitarian ceasefire’

Pope names members of Vatican’s key advisory theology commission

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CTS — Rediscovering the Rosary: live podcast and book launch, London, 30 October

The David Hahn Show

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Master Samwise on Hollywood's failed villains and Tolkien's genius

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Why St Michael’s Lent is a remedy for summer complacency

The disciplines of prayer, mortification and fraternity can remind us that the whole person belongs to Christ

The Irish government’s war on tradwives

Maria Steen

The theology of cardboard boxes

Dominic Perrem

Why the way we rest matters

Bérengère Darlison

The Catholic art of living

Bérengère Darlison

Soul

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Prayer is never wasted, even when God seems silent

When prayer feels fruitless and God seems silent, faith calls us to trust in His hidden work, even when we cannot see or feel what He is doing

‘Keep your lamps burning’

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‘Something greater than Solomon is here’

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St Thérèse and the hidden greatness of small deeds

‘His face was always joyful’

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Can we believe our ancestors’ tales of the supernatural?

Malcolm Gaskill’s Worlds of Fear and Wonder asks whether modern scepticism can prevent us from understanding the supernatural experiences of the past

Melanie McDonagh

What Raphael understood about the Archangel

Fr Gavan Jennings

Depicting God’s messengers

Daniel Beurthe

Can fusionism revive the American Right?

The making of the university

Andrew Cusack

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Jonathan Reyes named new CEO of FOCUS

Reyes will succeed FOCUS founder Curtis Martin as chief executive of the Catholic college outreach organisation