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Are Pope Francis, the Synod, and Simone Weil inhabiting parallel worlds?
anna rowlands reflects on the synodal process and examines the shared values of pope francis and the french philosopher simone weil. fo...
Anna Rowlands
Pope Francis is well-intentioned but misguided when he talks about migrants
last week president emmanuel macron hosted two prestigious figures to france and one proved more problematical than the other. king ch...
Gavin Mortimer
A split running through the Church
john l allen jr considers how the synod of bishops will be able to deal with hugely divisive issues. on october 4, the curtain will rise on ...
John Allen
'As art degenerates around us, so too does unity in the Church'
“there is a separate entrance for those who are uncomfortable squeezing through the nude performers,” says bbc entertainment reporter steven...
Katherine Bennett
Pope in Marseille sent secular Europe a clear message on life
rome – although the issue of migration was front and centre during his overnight visit to marseille, pope francis sent another strong messag...
Elise Ann Allen
Pope Francis in Marseille: migrants should be viewed as gifts, not as a burden
marseille – after a week of rising tensions within europe amid a surge in migrant arrivals, with some countries, including france, taking me...
Elise Allen
Integralism: How Catholics can lose friends and alienate people
in 1911, rh benson, the catholic convert son of the archbishop of canterbury, wrote a book called the dawn of all, set in 1973. this offered...
Gertrude Clarke
Police apologise to Catholic woman six months after arrest for silent prayer
the police have finally apologised to catholic woman arrested for praying silently outside a closed abortion clinic in birmingham. following...
Simon Caldwell
Pope in Marseille condemns 'velvet gloved' indifference to migrants
since pope francis in july 2013 first visited the small italian island of lampedusa, a primary destination for migrants seeking entry in eur...
Elise Allen
‘Take that, schismatics!’
the right and the left in america are equally partisan about pope francis. whatever else has occurred during the present papacy, the catholi...
Ken Craycraft
Pakistan Christians reeling after violence
catholic bishops in pakistan call for justice after angry muslim mob carries out ʻworst attack on christians in nationʼs historyʼ. chr...
John Pontifex
Budapest diary: Painful lessons from a city of beauty
it was very late when i arrived in budapest, but a consolation to be in a hotel close to the danube. to me, there is something sacred about ...
Simon Caldwell
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
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