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Cardinal Hollerich: Church teaching on gay sex is 'false' and can be changed
catholic teaching on the morality of homosexual sexual acts is “false” and could be changed, a senior cardinal has said. the traditional bel...
Simon Caldwell
Sainthood cause opens for Pakistani security guard who sacrificed his life to stop suicide bomber
when a suicide bomber attempted to enter a catholic church in pakistan in 2015, a 20-year-old volunteer security guard blocked him. “i will ...
Katie Yoder
Terrorists murder Pakistani pastor in drive-by shooting
terrorists in pakistan have murdered a christian pastor who dedicated his life to helping persecuted the persecuted church in his country. g...
Simon Caldwell
On the Church and Sexuality
the german church has convened a synod which will reach its conclusion in 2023. the synodal path – as it is sometimes called – has had...
Karl Gustel Warnberg
Donations to Peter's Pence papal charities slump by 15 per cent in a year
donations to peter’s pence fell by around 15 per cent in 2021, the vatican has announced. in an interview with vatican news, father juan a. ...
CNA Staff
Wisdom of the elders
stories of a generation, the new netflix series, is something rather remarkable: a dialogue between generations, a series of interviews with...
Gertrude Clarke
The unique challenge of a Catholic education
before i meet paul stubbings, head of the cardinal vaughan memorial school in west london, i read a preview of the latest ofsted inspection ...
Gertrude Clarke
Pope’s gift for publicity has its dangers
pope francis has done it again. he has got himself into the news – on social media – by turning up at a record shop in rome to spend 10 minu...
The Catholic Herald
Lessons that remain forever fresh
eighty years after st edmund campion was martyred at tyburn, father henry more – the great-grandson of st thomas more – visited the north of...
Simon Caldwell
The Pope's New Normal
it was, apropos nothing, as we walked to his school together the other day, that my son looked up at me and said: “by the way, the pope play...
Nick Thomas
Baddesley Clinton
baddesley clinton lies some eight miles to the north of warwick, in the forest of arden. the beautiful moated manor house dating from the 14...
Michael Hodges
Selective reading
i remember reading somewhere recently – i’m afraid i forget where – the claim that the catholic church has, for the last 2,000 years, been t...
Fr Richard Ounsworth OP
No greater nightmare
a ray of hope might be on the horizon for campaigners and parents seeking to challenge the absolute power of the nhs and the courts in decid...
Justin Doherty
Can a secular school have a ‘religious-type’ ethos?
katherine birbalsingh, also known as “britain’s strictest headteacher”, is not shy of media attention. on the very day that i talk to her th...
Theo Hobson
Faith amidst the ruins
deep in the iraqi desert, near the highway leading to the saudi arabian border, lie the ruins of al-qusair church, the oldest church in iraq...
Tom Westcott
My road to Mount Athos
the sun was setting to the west as i stood upon a vantage point known to the byzantine residents of constantinople as hagios demetrios. it w...
Mark Jenkins
Legal Notebook
in december, an ex-police officer called harry miller won a legal challenge against a national policy permitting forces to record gender-cri...
Sir Stephen Stewart
What St Thomas Aquinas can teach the teacher
we cannot hope to achieve an end without knowing what the end is. an archer will not hit the bullseye – except by fluke – unless he can see ...
Dominic Sullivan
The steep and rugged pathway
february promises longer days and the first glimmers of spring, but its arrival also heralds the approach of lent on 2 march. ash wednesday ...
Niall Gooch
Can today’s novels do God?
it is little surprise that many agnostic novelists are drawn to religion as a theme: it is dramatic, colourful, and it heightens moral dilem...
Theo Hobson
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