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The big story: Pope Francis: 'I'm not afraid of schism'
what happened? pope francis has raised the prospect of schism, telling reporters that it is a constant possibility in the church. answering ...
Staff writers
A schism in the US? What Pope Francis really thinks
it all began with a book. on the papal plane to africa, the french journalist nicolas senèze gave the holy father a copy of his latest work....
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September 20, 2019
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Why thousands of children have never heard of the Good Samaritan
once a year, in january, i sit around a table with an eclectic group that includes chris bryant, the labour mp, anna sapir abulafia, profess...
Cristina Odone
Our cultural roots are in Latin and Greek
teenagers are studying latin in large numbers. some 7,000 pupils took the gcse this year, 150 more than in 2018, according to the exam board...
Alexander Jolliffe
What role should the clergy play in a Catholic education?
in david lodge’s 2001 novel thinks, the protagonist helen reed muses on her catholic schooling: “i’m deeply grateful that i had a catholic e...
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Leading Catholic school headmaster: 'Boys will turn off if you patronise them'
every year the london oratory school, a boys’ academy which takes girls at sixth form, has 1,000 applicants from across london for the 160 p...
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We're in danger of breeding a generation of namby-pambies
"the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom," says john proctor as fear and vengeance stalk the village of salem in the ...
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Will Catholic schools resist state pressure on sex education?
in 2007, the government shut down catholic adoption agencies. they didn’t put it like that, of course: they just insisted that, as a result ...
Dan Hitchens
Editor's letter
while researching our schools supplement i spoke to a gentleman who, despite not being a catholic himself, had chosen to send his children t...
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The scent of humility
according to the 7th-century bishop and theologian isaac the syrian, a person who is genuinely humble gives off a certain scent that other p...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
The icon bringing hope to the persecuted
many of us have become conditioned because of our history to think of christianity as essentially european. “europe is the faith and the fai...
Fr Benedict Kiely
Heretic of the week: Johannes Ronge
johannes ronge (1813-1887) was founder successively of the “new” or “german” catholics, and of several “free thought” groups. born during th...
Charles Coulombe
Prize crossword 0610
cryptic across 5 acts that define the proconsul of achaia? (6) 7 old imperial port old quack imbibed in booth (6) 9 numbers giant among obse...
Alun Evans
Mass readings
ordinary form divine office week iv sunday, september 15 : 24th sunday in ordinary time ex 32:7-11, 13-14; ps 51; 1 tm 1:12-17; lk 15:1...
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How to … Become a cardinal
these days, the prospects of becoming a cardinal are no longer increased by being a nephew of a reigning pope or by belonging to an illustri...
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The man who was the English-speaking world's gateway to the popes
to the question, “how many people actually work in the vatican?”, pope john xxiii supposedly replied, “about half.” it has become part of ca...
Fr Dominic Allain
Don't treat God like a cosmic concierge
the collect for the 24th ordinary sunday is an ancient prayer found in the veronese sacramentary: respice nos, rerum omnium deus creator et ...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
What true contrition really means
the 24th sunday of the year ex 32:7-11 & 13-14; 1 tim 1:12-17; lk 15:1-32 (year c) "the lord spoke to moses, ‘go down now because your p...
Bishop David McGough
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