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UK's Confraternity of Catholic Clergy publishes letter reaffirming traditional Church teaching after Fiducia Supplicans
an organisation representing some 500 priests in britain has released a signed letter reaffirming the church's teaching regarding marriage a...
Tom Colsy
No, the Church has not changed her doctrine on the liceity or blessing of same-sex unions
the vatican’s latest declaration bombshell, authored by one of the most senior clerics in the roman curia, has duped the international press...
Tom Colsy
After finding his 'Chesterton' feet, Italy’s top male model wants to be a priest
the phone in each of our pockets has become the magic mirror on the wall that we consult every hour of every day to ask: “who is the fairest...
Katherine Bennett
‘I want to shout to the world that I’m innocent’ convicted Cardinal tells TV show
rome — in his first major media engagement since being convicted of financial crimes by a vatican tribunal and sentenced to five and a half ...
Crux Staff
‘Urgent pleas’ from Catholic leaders for UK government to lift faith-based admissions cap
education secretary gillian keegan has met catholic leaders amid urgent pleas from the church to lift a highly contentious faith-based admis...
Simon Caldwell
Who would choose to be a Catholic at a time like this?
the phoney war is over. civil war has been launched within the church by pope francis and his recent appointee cardinal victor fernandez.&nb...
Gavin Ashenden
Vatican’s doctrinal czar parses details for enabling same-sex blessings
rome – after pope francis earlier this year opened the door in certain circumstances to giving blessings to same-sex couples, the vatican’s ...
Elise Allen
Cardinal Nichols ‘heartbroken’ over attack on Gaza’s only Catholic church that he knows personally
leicester, crux – cardinal vincent nichols, the leader of the uk's roman catholics, says he is “heartbroken” over the attack on a catholic c...
Charles Collins
Pesellino's work is spectacular: alas, we shall never know what else might have been
francesco di stefano, known as pesellino, first established his reputation and that of his workshop in florence through small-scale devotion...
William Davie
Advent and the 'Great Paradigm Shift'
there is an old story told about the dilemma of a monkey reaching down through the narrow neck of a glass jar to grab the alluring beads con...
Gavin Ashenden
Vatican trial raises the question: Is Pope Francis ‘Great Reformer’ or ‘Great Restorer’?
rome – anyone who’s ever read or seen inherit the wind knows that almost 100 years ago, a celebrated trial took place in the ame...
John Allen
The plight of Christians in the Holy Land this Christmas
this editorial from the catholic herald reflects on the attack on christians in gaza yesterday. there is one part of the church where the ce...
The Catholic Herald
Mixed reactions to Vatican 'Trial of the Century': will anyone actually go to jail?
rome – after a staggering total of 30 months, 85 hearings stretching over some 600 courtroom hours, 69 witnesses and almost 150,000 pages of...
John L Allen
'Senseless' attacks in Gaza: Christians shot and killed at Holy Family Church
on saturday the latin patriarchate of jerusalem issued a statement that confirmed that a member of the israeli defence force (idf) had shot ...
The Catholic Herald
Becciu guilty: sentenced to five-and-a-half-years imprisonment by Vatican court
rome – in the long-awaited denouement of the vatican’s “trial of the century,” which has been seen widely as a litmus test of pope francis’s...
John L Allen
Hidden genius: celebrating the obscure Pesellino at the National Gallery in London
how many people had heard of francesco di stefano before london’s national gallery decided to stage a mini-exhibition of his work? better kn...
Serenhedd James
Has Ireland's abortion clamour contributed to another mismanaged sepsis death?
an irish teenager died in university hospital limerick due to delays in recognising and treating sepsis, the sunday independent repor...
Dubhaltach O Reachtnin
The poetry of Christmas trees
nick ripatrazone explores seasonal lines by poets elizabeth bishop, wb yeats, james merrill and denise levertov. in one of her most fa...
Nick Ripatrazone
A History of the Catholic Church, by Piers Paul Read
a history of the catholic church piers paul read meid, £25, 560 pages piers paul read – veteran novelist, historian and biographer – has pro...
Serenhedd James
Mercy strikes again: the unjust treatment of Cardinal Burke
rome - the cardinals are originally, and still ceremonially, the clergy of the church of rome: the bishops of the suffragan dioceses, the pa...
Diana Montagna
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