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What are the chances of a pro-life Prime Minister?
michael gove raised a few eyebrows when he described theresa may as “britain’s first catholic prime minister” two years ago. he pointed out ...
Simon Caldwell
When will the Vatican reveal what it knows about McCarrick?
what just happened? that’s the question everyone has been asking ever since tuesday of last week, when noticieros televisa aired an in-depth...
Christopher R. Altieri
World news: From Mexico City to Mupoi
toronto fraternal order ditches plumes to gain young members the knights of columbus have voted to modernise their dress code in an effort t...
Staff writers
The week in quotations
"i hope msgr’s bravery inspires others who have information" bishop joseph strickland calls for more whistleblowers like mgr anthony figueir...
Staff writers
Meanwhile: The pope who won the Champions League
it was one of the great moments in recent goalkeeping history. in the 2005 champions league final, ac milan’s star striker andriy shevchenko...
Staff writers
The best of the web: demographics, dark nights and offshore finance
is religious population growth the future? thanks to technology and secularisation, the birth rate has plummeted in the west. but could that...
Staff writers
The week ahead: Gender, Pentecost and coffee
gender will be the topic of discussion at st mary moorfields in london next wednesday, june 12. a conference, organised by the association o...
Staff writers
The big story: Pope Francis responds to Viganò claim
what happened? pope francis has said he does not remember if he was told about theodore mccarrick’s predations. in an interview with valenti...
Staff writers
What do papal apologies achieve?
during his successful but unheralded trip to romania last weekend, pope francis offered an apology to the romani people. speaking in the cen...
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June 7, 2019
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The family that could save Europe
a little over a hundred years ago, emperor karl of austria, his wife zita and their small children were forced to leave their last refuge in...
Charles Coulombe
Jean Vanier (1928-2019)
our differences are not a threat but a treasure. jean vanier, the founder of l’arche, who died in paris on may 7, wrote those words; but the...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
A Catholic childhood in Sri Lanka
the attack on local christians and western tourists in sri lanka on easter sunday grieved all people of good will, but especially catholics ...
Marion Boteju
Heretic of the week: Guy Ballard
guy ballard (1878-1939) was a true american original. born in newton, kansas, he became a mining engineer and moved to chicago. there he met...
Charles Coulombe
Prize crossword 0595
cryptic across 5 point to one of 2 being confused, mary being uniformly good? (5,4) 8 one of a devilish disposition: it’s santa – not (8) 9 ...
Alun Evans
Mass readings
ordinary form divine office week iii sunday, june 2: the seventh sunday of easter acts 7:55-60; ps 97; rev 22:12-14, 16-17, 20; jn 17:20-26 ...
The Catholic Herald
How to… Climb the Holy Stairs
there is really only one way to climb the scala santa – or holy stairs – in rome, and that is on your knees. tradition holds that the white ...
The Catholic Herald
Discovering my rebellious spirit was a shock
st philip neri, whose feast day was on may 26, had many pithy maxims about the spiritual life. one of them was that you can measure a man’s ...
Fr Dominic Allain
The absurdity of 'Ascension Thursday Sunday'
on this complicated sunday people in many churches will observe in the ordinary form what we might call, for its absurdity, ascension thursd...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
Our darkness can become Christ's light
the stoning of stephen, the church’s first martyr, reminds us that the cross is not simply the precursor of the resurrection. the cross is, ...
Bishop David McGough
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