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For Australian Catholics, this could be a high-stakes election
religious freedom, religious education and pro-life issues are all at stake in the australian federal election on may 18. led by bill shorte...
Natasha Marsh
A new conscience rule will help Catholic healthcare
last week president donald trump announced the release of a final conscience rule that seeks to protect healthcare workers and entities from...
Susan T Berry
Sainthood could be a step closer for a wandering poet
sooner rather than later the cause for the canonisation of john bradburne is likely to open, possibly on september 5, the 40th anniversary o...
Simon Caldwell
What next for the College of Cardinals?
there’s been lots of chatter over the past few weeks about a consistory for the creation of new cardinals. as of this writing, nothing has b...
Christopher R. Altieri
World News: From San Cristobal to Kochi
los angeles attorney general investigates church’s record on abuse california attorney general xavier becerra has opened an investigation in...
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The Week in Quotations
"christians are confused… each day in rome i receive discouraged and suffering priests. the church is going through the dark night" cardinal...
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Meanwhile: Preaching against dangerous driving
it may not be the most obvious subject for a homily. but in kaduna state in northwestern nigeria, traffic police are hoping to enlist the cl...
Staff writers
The Best of the Web: France, St Augustine and bad thoughts
against romantic melancholy on france at first things, nathan pinkoski and jean-baptiste pateron said that “conservative romantics who love ...
Staff writers
The Week Ahead: Vocations, Dominican discussion, Philippine elections
sunday, may 12 is the 56th world day of prayer for vocations. a website, worlddayofprayerforvocations.com, has resources for parishes and in...
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The Big Story: Academics accuse the Pope of heresy
what happened? a group of academics and priests have accused pope francis of committing the canonical crime of heresy. the group, which incl...
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A hushed-up genocide
ten years ago, it would have been unthinkable to see a headline about the genocide of christians on the bbc website. while the corporation h...
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If Kate Smith's statue falls, what about Margaret Sanger's?
the past few years have witnessed in these united states an orgy of something once thought confined to revolutionary dictatorships: the mass...
Charles Coulombe
Gene Wolfe: a Catholic from the far future
gene wolfe, who died last week at the age of 87, imagined vast, strange worlds in his fiction – and revealed them in flickering glimpses. hi...
David Randall and Christopher Welser
Could Catholic adoption agencies be declared illegal?
yet another city’s catholic adoption agencies were forced to shut down last week, this time in pennsylvania, where a federal judge ruled tha...
Jordan Bloom
Prize Crossword 0591
cryptic across 6 how the angel appeared to end maria’s torment? (2,1,5) 8 staggering move to gain influence (4) 9 close, and familiar with k...
Alun Evans
How to be a practising mystic
“i’m a practising mystic.” a woman said that in one of my classes some years ago and it raised lots of eyebrows. i was teaching a class in m...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
Sir Roger and the clash of cultures
i went last weekend to the inaugural buckingham history festival. it was held by the university of buckingham, under the aegis of its vice-c...
David Oldroyd-Bolt
Heretic of the Week: John Knox
john knox (c 1512-1572) was born sometime between 1505 and 1515 in haddington, scotland. he is thought to have studied at either the univers...
Charles Coulombe
Mass readings
ordinary form divine office week iii sunday, may 5: the third sunday of easter acts 5:27-32, 40b-41; ps 30; rev 5:11-14; jn 21:1-19 monday, ...
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How to... accompany the dying
pope st john paul ii noted in an address in 2004 that “a man, even if seriously ill or disabled in the exercise of his highest functions, is...
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