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The test of the summit: will whistleblowers be protected?
as the old adage goes, you don’t fatten a pig by weighing it. nor do you solve an abuse crisis simply by having summits to discuss it. it is...
Fr Dominic Allain
St Thérèse understood the spirit of Sexagesima
in the traditional roman calendar this sunday is called sexagesima, latin for the “sixtieth” day before easter. these three purple-draped su...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
Forgiveness is more than a strategy
seventh sunday of the year 1 sm 26: 2,7-9,12-13 & 22-33; 1 cor 15:45-49; lk 6:27-38 (year c) ‘the lord is compassion and love, slow to a...
Bishop David McGough
Churchill, the Mosleys and the Tridentine Rite
no longer with us by naim attallah, quartet, 823pp, £30/$33 it was diana mosley, as enchanting in her person as her politics were bewilderin...
David Platzer
A masterpiece that triumphs over anything that's done to it
lucky readers of this publication won’t remember how the 1970s looked; but with its bad hair, flared jeans and depressing architecture, it w...
Michael White
Why Civilisation has lasted 50 years
"what is civilisation?” an erudite english gentleman asks the camera. “i don’t know … but i think i can recognise it when i see it.” and the...
Ed West
Letters & emails
newman’s message to a church in crisis sir – the news that blessed john henry newman is to be canonised is wonderful. what that holy man wou...
The Catholic Herald
Shamima Begum's son didn't choose ISIS
the woman selling daily papers at the supermarket pointed to a picture of shamima begum, the “jihadi bride” who now wants to return to brita...
Mary Kenny
Two very different ways of fighting communism
last week, the cause of cardinal józsef mindszenty of hungary (1892-1975) took a major step forward: pope francis declared mindszenty venera...
Marc Roscoe Loustau
Newman's most savage critic was a herald of the sexual revolution
as the catholic church proceeds to declare john henry newman a saint, some will try to present him as a queer icon. andrew sullivan has alre...
Matthew Schmitz
A culture of condemnation has replaced Christian forgiveness
what do liam neeson and ralph northam, the democratic governor of virginia, have in common? they are both being punished and reviled for act...
Ann Widdecombe
Behind the abuse crisis, a crisis of governance
the sexual abuse summit’s second full day will be february 22, feast of the chair of st peter, the liturgical commemoration of the petrine o...
Fr Raymond de Souza
How to become a Doctor of the Church
anyone aspiring to become a doctor of the church requires an impressive cv. the official criteria are a major contribution to christian thou...
Jonathan Wright
Newman should be the next Doctor of the Church
canonisations vary greatly in their significance. the canonisation of mother teresa of calcutta, who devoted her life to the care of the dyi...
Fr Ian Ker
Susan Boyle, lunchtime Mass and the Dramatists Club: a week in theatreland
ten years ago i devised a stage musical based on the film priscilla queen of the desert . we developed the script in a workshop in melbourne...
Allan Scott
Think German Catholicism is in decline? Look at the latest figures on Protestantism
in germany, the crucible of the reformation 500 years ago, the country’s former protestant majority now makes up less than a third of the po...
Jon Anderson
France's churches are under attack, but the establishment doesn't seem to care
during the french revolution’s worst years, some of the most visible expressions of violence involved attacks on the church, which was perce...
Samuel Gregg
A case that suggests we are on the verge of a new liturgy war
fr edwin dwyer looks like he stepped out of a time machine. with his shaved head, thick red beard and piercing blue eyes, he may very well h...
Michael Warren Davis
Truth and fiction in a new Vatican exposé
in the closet of the vatican: power, homosexuality, hypocrisy is the english title of the major book by the french sociologist and gay right...
Christopher R. Altieri
The abuse summit begins amid turmoil in Rome
the eyes of the world were already going to be on rome this week, where some of the most senior church leaders have gathered for a four-day ...
Christopher R. Altieri
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