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Was there really a plan to relocate the Vatican to Ireland?
on july 18, 1931, the liverpool weekly post reported some startling news. it said that owing to “quarrels with fascists and mussolini”, pope...
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Usman Khan exploited loopholes in our justice system - and our worldview
if we suspect someone is a lost cause, is it naïve to try to reform them and stupid to release them? usman khan went to jail in 2012 for his...
Tim Stanley
Never mind the election, let's celebrate Our Lady of Guadalupe
thursday december 12 is general election day in britain, but it is also, by coincidence (or perhaps providence), the feast of our lady of gu...
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
The growing Marian enrichment of the Church's calendar
the addition of a new feast to the universal calendar – our lady of loreto on december 10 – is a reminder of the growing marian enrichment o...
Fr Raymond de Souza
An epiphany on the motorway
driving north to my parents’ late at night, i realised there were so many lorries on the road that i was queuing behind them. i have taken t...
Melissa Kite
Officials object to a 'mega parish' plan in Germany's oldest diocese
following an intervention by the vatican, germany’s oldest diocese has put on hold plans to reduce its number of parishes from almost 900 to...
Anian Christoph Wimmer
The stunning decline in Catholicism in the Pope's homeland
a recent study from argentina has shown a dramatic decline in the church in pope francis’s homeland. the conicet survey showed that 62.9 per...
Jon Anderson
A new bishop wants his predecessor to atone – in very practical ways
the big news from the us last week concerned the unprecedented amends bishop mark e brennan of wheeling-charleston has ordered his disgraced...
Christopher R. Altieri
Who wants the Catholic vote?
there are approximately a million practising catholics in england and wales, many of whom are among the older generation. as a demographic g...
Catherine Lafferty
Two Italian dioceses address the divorced and remarried – expect controversy
the italian diocese of vittorio veneto late last month became the latest to issue guidelines for the implementation of pope francis’s 2016 p...
Christopher R. Altieri
World news: From Beijing to Bangui
grand rapids, michigan diocese backs priest over communion refusal the diocese of grand rapids has backed a priest who refused communion to ...
Staff writers
Meanwhile: A papal house goes on the market
a 15-bedroom villa that used to belong to the family of pope leo xii can be yours for a mere £626,000. the villa leone, in castiglioni, marc...
Staff writers
The best of the web: A school's ethos, an alt-right danger, early Christmas
a poor school with the strength of faith for more than 100 years, wrote ray domanico at city journal, “all hallows high school in the south ...
Staff writers
The week ahead: General election, the Immaculate Conception, St Faustina
britain goes to the polls on thursday, december 12, with most pollsters predicting a conservative victory while others forecast a hung parli...
Staff writers
Overlooked: Cardinal Becciu denies links with hospital deal
what happened? a former senior official at the vatican secretariat of state has strongly denied a series of claims about his involvement wit...
Staff writers
The big story: Argentine priests jailed for more than 40 years
what happened? two priests have been jailed for more than 40 years each for raping and sexually abusing deaf children at a school in argenti...
Staff writers
Schönborn's soberingly honest reflection
it is not often that a cardinal gives a speech that sends shockwaves through the catholic church. but that was what happened when cardinal c...
The Catholic Herald
December 6, 2019
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The week in quotations
i was amazed that the false accusation ... was already known to him bishop nicholas dimarzio, who denies abuse allegations, on being in a me...
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Meanwhile...
✣ with fulton sheen’s beatification now scheduled for december 21 (see page 10), and christmas around the corner, a company has spotted an o...
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