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A Christian country?: The CofE shows us why not to cave to the spirit of the age
recently the times newspaper reported on the findings of its survey of 1,200 clerics of the church of england. among the dispiriting results...
The Catholic Herald
Over 1,000 people sign petition to 'scrap the cap' on faith-based admissions to new free schools
over 1,000 people have signed the catholic union’s open letter to the education secretary, gillian keegan, calling on her to lift the cap on...
The Catholic Herald
Papal envoy in leopard print vestment causes social media frenzy
rome – a veteran vatican diplomat recently became a brief cause célèbre in italy after images of him celebrating mass in a leopard print cha...
Crux Staff
Germany: Catholic clergy defy Church and affirm same-sex couples at Cologne Cathedral
several clerics from the archdiocese of cologne have joined representatives of protestant denominations in a ceremony to affirm same-sex cou...
Tom Colsy
Alleged Rupnik victims say Church's pledge of 'zero tolerance' for sex abuse is mere PR campaign
rome – an open letter signed by five alleged victims of father marko rupnik, a former jesuit and renowned slovenian artist, asserts that rec...
Crux Staff
Critics are wrong to accuse Pope Pius XII of inactivity during Holocaust
pope john xxiii, that short-serving but consequential pontiff – he was in office for less than five years, but was responsible for convening...
Niall Gooch
Rupnik centre gets 'clean bill of health' from Diocese of Rome with doubts raised over excommunication
rome – despite being expelled in july from his jesuit order over charges of sexual, spiritual and psychological abuse, famed slovenian artis...
Crux Staff
Condemning Russell Brand will not change the warped culture of relativism which created him
it’s presumptuous of me to begin by quibbling with shakespeare, but he’s dead and i’m feeling a bit kicky this morning. “what’s in a name?” ...
Katherine Bennett
Seriously ill teenager dies fighting mental competence ruling in UK court
a 19-year-old woman with a rare disease has died during a legal fight to circumvent a ruling that she was not competent to make decisions ab...
The Catholic Herald
Letter and Nazi dagger reopen debates over wartime role of Pope Pius XII
rome – two new discoveries regarding pope pius xii are rekindling debate over the role of the wartime pontiff, including a letter suggesting...
Crux Staff
The Holy Rosary: a help and comfort to tired and distracted souls
in the heart of every person, there is a desire to be in union with god. such a union is realized and deepened by a life of prayer. such a s...
Fr Jeffrey F Kirby
Archbishop of Mombasa decries official recognition of Kenyan gay-rights group
a leading catholic prelate in kenya, who’s set to take part in a vatican synod of bishops next month, has objected to a ruling by the countr...
Ngala Killian Chimtom
Vatican and China discuss resumption of grain exports from Russia and Ukraine
pope francis’s peace envoy has met government officials in china to discuss how to restart a deal to allow ukraine and russia to export grai...
Crux Staff
Senior bishop chastises France and Germany over inhospitality to boat migrants
a senior european bishop has criticised france and germany for failing to provide “a fair solution” to the problem of migrants arriving in t...
The Catholic Herald
Cardinal Müller on Synod: 'This is the great hour of manipulation'
on tuesday cardinal müller gave a frank interview to spanish catholic news website i nfovaticana, in which he has expressed his grave concer...
The Catholic Herald
Church rushes to Morocco's aid after devastating earthquake
yaoundè, cameroon – as morocco continues to struggle to cope with its worst earthquake to strike a major urban centre in a century, which so...
Ngala Killian Chimtom
How the 60s paved the way for today's culture wars
philip larkin, in annus mirabilis , tells us that: “sexual intercourse began/in nineteen sixty-three/(which was rather lat...
Anthony McCarthy
How a persecuted Dutch family found asylum in Poland
the fate of children takes a particular centre-stage in the gospels. jesus articulates ethics that warn in the starkest terms about the impo...
Gavin Ashenden
Pope's Ukraine envoy to meet Chinese premier on Wednesday
rome – an italian newspaper reported tuesday morning that pope francis’s personal envoy for the conflict in ukraine, cardinal matteo zuppi, ...
Crux Staff
Raising children in Britain is becoming increasingly hard
g.k. chesterton when talking about children said, “as we walk the streets and see below us those delightful bulbous heads, three times too b...
Laura Perrins
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