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Can a skyscraper represent love? Pope Francis says it can in Singapore
singapore – surrounded by a city-state whose urban core contains more than 100 high-rise structures straining towards the sky, pope francis ...
Elise Ann Allen
Robert F Kennedy is bringing Desert Father mysticism to US election – it's needed
there have been many times in both the recent uk parliamentary election, and the forthcoming us presidential election, when i have been remi...
Mark Jenkins
New and united Archdiocese of Cardiff-Menevia approved by Pope Francis
archbishop mark o’toole has announced the creation of the new archdiocese of cardiff-menevia, a decision promulgated by pope francis on 12 s...
The Catholic Herald
Pope’s voyage between third and first worlds is a microcosm of his papacy and 11-year message
singapore – pope francis travelled from one of the world’s poorest nations to one of its richest on 11 september, leaving behind the dusty b...
Elise Allen
Gay marriage and surrogacy: Purchasing children and eradicating society
the family courts have found themselves being asked to adjudicate the question of whether a homosexual couple who have bought a child from a...
Gavin Ashenden
Augustinian friars return to Walsingham at Catholic National Shrine for first time since Reformation
three african friars are coming to the catholic national shrine and basilica of our lady at walsingham, where they will assist and serve the...
Tom Colsy
Kamala Harris repeats claim that abortion compatible with religious faith in debate with Trump
during the first and quite possibly only debate to occur between the democrat and republican contenders for the us presidency, kamala harris...
James Jeffrey
The March for Life in London shone a beam of light for a nation lost in fog of moral relativism
in 2010 the guardian newspaper published an article entitled “pope gives top job to abortion hardliner”. pope benedict xvi, the article clai...
Katherine Bennett
Pope Francis arrives in Singapore: will he address China is the big question
singapore – pope francis has landed in singapore at the start of the final stage of his 12-day odyssey to asia and oceania. he is expected t...
Elise Ann Allen
Pope Francis will celebrate inaugural Mass at reopening of Notre-Dame de Paris, claim well-placed sources
a senior vatican correspondent at a major french newspaper has claimed that pope francis will travel to paris for the reopening of the iconi...
Tom Colsy
Not a bad turnout: Pope’s Mass attended by 600,000 – nearly half of East Timor's population
dili – an estimated 600,000 catholics attended the mass celebrated by pope francis on his last day in east timor. it meant that nearly half ...
Elise Ann Allen
Wolfgang Smith (1930-2024): Physicist, mathematician and philosopher who helped people make better sense of the world
the catholic physicist, mathematician and philosopher wolfgang smith died in july. as a physicist, smith laid the theoretical foundations fo...
Fr Robert Verrill OP
The subtle Catholic spirituality vying with the dangerous darkness in Pope Francis’s ‘peripheries’
port moresby – the capital city of papua new guinea, and one of the most crime-ridden cities in the world, is a classic example of what pope...
Elise Allen
Catholic convert who voiced Darth Vader departs this galaxy: James Earl Jones dies aged 93
james earl jones, the renowned us actor whose “beautifully sonorous tones” also lent themselves to creating the personality of the iconic st...
The Catholic Herald
Pope starts East Timor trip with calls he name clergy in abuse scandals highly Catholic nation still reels from
dili – as pope francis begins his brief, two-day visit to east timor, one of the key underlying issues he will have to grapple with is the c...
Elise Ann Allen
Lourdes Grotto closes – and reopens in a flash after flooding forces closure
flash flooding caused the temporary closure of the famous grotto at the shrine of our lady of lourdes in southern france on 7 september, tho...
The Catholic Herald
Pope Francis confronts dark magic, witchcraft and violence against women in Papua New Guinea
port moresby – those involved in helping vulnerable and abused women in papua new guinea are hoping that pope francis’s three-day visit to t...
Elise Ann Allen
Dominican in the kitchen: some theology served with a side of fine trifle
trifles are one of my favourite things. given that i’m often faced with the task of mass catering, trifles are the easiest of puddings. they...
Albert Robertson OP
Gilbert Blount: an undeservedly overshadowed recusant architect
gilbert blount was born at mapledurham near reading in 1819, the second son of michael joseph blount, of an ancient recusant family. he was ...
Michael Hodges
Thanks, but no thanks: Francis's support of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church rebuffed
rome – if ever proof were needed of pope francis’s indefatigable commitment to outreach, the fact that today he's in vanimo in papua new gui...
John L Allen
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