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Abortion: The end of stigma?
a new bill aims to redefine how the law sees abortion at midnight on monday, many catholics across portsmouth diocese began a fast, not to b...
Dan Hitchens
Youth synod: The final straight
can the bishops’ concluding document please everyone? a pair of high-profile invitations came to pope francis last week – one from china an...
Christopher R. Altieri
Comment of the week
lobsters, cornish pasties and rigid rules sir – i understand what ann farmer is saying (letter, october 19) but she overstates her case. the...
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Omnium gatherum
the collect for the 30th ordinary sunday, also in the 1962 missale romanum for the 13th sunday after pentecost, was in the ancient verona sa...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
Word this week
the 30th sunday of the year jer 31:7-9; heb 5:1-6; mk 10:46-52 (year b) the prophet jeremiah was an unwelcome voice to his contemporaries in...
Bishop David McGough
The epiphanies of a Norwegian Trappist
the shattering of loneliness: on christian remembrance by erik varden ocso, bloomsbury, 192pp £10.99 the cistercian community of mount st be...
Hugh Somerville-Knapman OSB
In brief
newark, united states university asks for courtesy as students abuse seminarians students at a catholic university have been urged to be civ...
Staff writers
The Yankee who fought for Catholic values
this new collection of the catholic writings of orestes brownson is very welcome. brownson (1803-1876) was one of the few original political...
Gerald Russello
Recovering the delicate radicalism of Debussy
one of this year’s major cultural anniversaries has been the centenary of the death of debussy, a composer who ranks alongside schoenberg an...
Michael White
Islam is everywhere in today’s art world
one of the most significant cultural events of the year took place at the british museum last week: the glitzy new albukhary foundation gall...
Lucien de Guise
A tough month for fans of a great storyteller
earlier this month, taylor swift made an appeal to her fans via instagram in which she attacked the voting record of the republican candidat...
Madeleine Teahan
The best of the web
✣ highlights from the week online the church needs better seminaries to tackle the sexual abuse crisis, the church must reform its seminarie...
Staff writers
The Wigan teacher who bore the stigmata
teresa higginson was oblivious to the blood trickling down her neck and on to her white scarf as she emerged from the church where she had b...
Simon Caldwell
The big story of the past seven days
✣ federal abuse investigation launched what happened? federal prosecutors in the united states have launched an investigation into the handl...
Staff writers
Killing fields
the death of 55 people in clashes between christians and muslims in nigeria last week was barely reported in the international media. the ki...
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Thou shalt not go to the ball
are fairy tales next in the queue to be banned for young children? the “influencers” – individuals and organisations wielding cultural influ...
Mary Kenny
Supreme Court may hear another wedding cake case
The couple declined to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding, citing their religious views
Catholic News Agency
US bishops to hold retreat following abuse scandals
Pope Francis has offered the services of his personal preacher to direct the retreat
Catholic News Agency
Analysis: Will LGBT debate define the youth synod?
The use of the term 'LGBT' in the synod’s working document caused a storm this spring
Ed Condon/CNA
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