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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
"Putin's Pope"? A just or unjust title, there may be trouble ahead
rome – yesterday crux carried two stories which, at first blush, appear unrelated. the first concerned the latest ukrainia...
John L Allen
Bandits murder seminarian at Nigerian presbytery
a seminarian died last night when extremists torched a presbytery in nigeria’s kafanchan diocese. the incident took place about 8pm on septe...
The Catholic Herald
Jesuits find list of thousands of Jews saved from Holocaust by wartime Pope
a list naming thousands of jews sheltered by catholics in wartime rome has been discovered, adding further evidence of the heroism of venera...
The Catholic Herald
'Alert and conscious' 19-year-old put on death pathway against her will
a judge has ruled that an “alert and conscious” adult woman does not have mental capacity because she disagrees with doctors who want to put...
Simon Caldwell
Outrage in Brazil after archbishop gives communion to Muslim sheikh
são paulo – during a funeral mass of a major figure in the brazilian church on august 28, a muslim sheikh ended up receiving communion, spar...
Eduardo Campos Lima
Small Polish town prepares for beatification of whole family killed for saving Jews
kraków, poland – around 11:30 am on september 1, a woman approached the ulma family grave in a markowa cemetery, bowed her head, and prayed....
John Lavenburg
Obituary: Alun Evans
farewell, axe. alun evans, 1949-2023 alun evans, who has died aged 73, was better known to readers of the catholic herald as “axe”, our vete...
The Catholic Herald
Pope dismisses critics of Synod as 'ideological' with an 'incapacity for dialogue'
aboard the papal plane – pope francis warned against the influence of what he called “ideology” on an upcoming synod of bishops at the vatic...
Elise Ann Allen
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