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Publisher withdraws abuser priest Fr Rupnik's books
a global publisher has withdrawn three books by jesuit artist fr. marko ivan rupnik after he was accused of serial sex abuse. pauline books ...
Olenka Hamilton
St Lucy: Italian saint who inspired a Swedish tradition
sweden is far north, cold and secular. yet, every year on the 13 december an italian girl who became a canonised saint of the catholic churc...
Karl Gustel Warnberg
The rise of Protestantism in Latin America
liberation sexuality is no more successful than liberation theology , writes gavin ashenden “the vatican is losing the largest catholic coun...
Gavin Ashenden
Bishop quits after finding role 'too great a burden'
pope francis has accepted the resignation of the bishop of hexham and newcastle who has quit almost a decade before he was due to retire, sa...
Simon Caldwell
Lay people can change the Church for the better
today’s financial challenges should be a catalyst for change in the catholic church , writes james somerville-meikle the catholic church sho...
James Somerville-Meikle
Already, and not yet: waiting for the coming of Christ
there’s something about advent which speaks to the hearts of us all. because advent is two things. it is a season which is incredibly specia...
Fr Mark Vickers
Doing it for themselves
“oh! women simply don’t pass the test,” exclaimed the distinctly infuriating german painter georg baselitz back in 2013. he was mid-tirade a...
Francesca Peacock
The unknown and unloved blonde
i distinctly remember when i first heard of marilyn monroe. i was 10 years old and watching a friend perform “diamonds are a girl’s best fri...
Flora Neville
Happy holidays?
tourists: how the british went abroad to find themselves lucy lethbridge bloomsbury, 320pp, £20 dostoyevsky, suffering from constipation in ...
Harriet Rix
King Charles meets Christian victims of persecution
king charles iii has met witnesses of christian persecution at an advent event in london. the king listened as fr alfred ebalu, a survivor o...
Staff Reporter
Podcast 29: In defence of ex-Anglicans with Dr Michael Nazir-Ali
monsignor michael nazir-ali, the former anglican bishop of rochester who became a catholic in 2021, joins dr gavin ashenden for this 29th ep...
Gavin Ashenden
More channel migrants is not the Christian response
a few weeks ago, at the checkout of a department store close to the seafront in dover, i overheard a mildly alarming exchange between the pe...
Niall Gooch
Vatican treats for the Christmas table
those wonderful boys in the swiss guard have done it again. after the vatican cookbook of 2016, which must by now surely be in every catholi...
Alicia Godfrey
Westminster's plans for more abortions in Northern Ireland
eamon martin, archbishop of armagh and primate of all-ireland, has rejected an announcement by secretary of state chris heaton-harris to fas...
Dubhaltach O Reachtnin
Census 2021: the hidden threat to church and state
the shift in religious and christian allegiance within the population was always predicted to arrive around about now, and here it is. sudde...
Gavin Ashenden
Anger and Courage: Sheila Hollins and the response to the Church's sexual abuse scandal
photo: baroness hollins and colleagues working on the vatican abuse commission the catholic union’s annual craigmyle lecture was delivered o...
Hugh Kerr
The profound and insightful mind of Peter Kreeft
few, if any, catholic philosophers are as prolific as the american professor, peter kreeft. over the course of his 85 years, 57 as a profess...
Ken Craycraft
Jesuit artist Father Rupnik has been practising ministry despite Vatican restrictions
a prominent jesuit priest has been continuing to practise his ministry despite the fact that it was restricted by the vatican in january 202...
Mark Lambert
Worth the wait: Piero’s "Nativity" unveiled in all its glory
after three years of painstaking work, piero della francesca’s famous nativity , from the early 1480s, has returned to public display in the...
Hugh Kerr
How emperors protected the Papacy from bad popes and created Western Civilization
in the december issue, piers paul read reminded readers of the times when christianity was persecuted. this is not untimely, given the re-co...
James Bogle
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