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‘This law makes me feel I am better off dead’: UK court hears Down syndrome abortion law challenge
london, england, jul 7, 2021 / 08:05 am. a woman with down syndrome said on tuesday that a u.k. law allowing abortion up to birth for disabi...
Catholic News Agency
EU Parliament calls for legal action against Hungary over controversial LGBT law
the european parliament on thursday approved a resolution calling for legal action in response to a new law in hungry banning the portrayal ...
Staff Reporter
Brazilian Church leaders increasingly critical of Brazil's Bolsonaro
people holding a brazilian flag that reads "522,000 deaths, we won't forget" take part in a demonstration on 3 july 2021. (sergio lima/afp v...
Eduardo Campos Lima
Vatican says Pope Francis "spent quiet day" Wednesday, slight fever in evening
view of agostino gemelli hospital in rome on 8 july 2021. (photo by isabella bonotto / afp) (photo by isabella bonotto/afp via getty images)...
Staff Reporter
C. S. Lewis: At first sight a disappointment
the poet elizabeth jennings reviews a book of reminiscences about c. s. lewis, whom she heard lecture when a student at st anne's college. t...
FromtheArchives
Southern African Bishops call for restraint, dialogue in Eswatini
bishops in southern africa are calling for “restraint and a spirit of meaningful dialogue” in the kingdom of eswatini as the government crac...
Staff Reporter
Maria Goretti's silence was tragic, not heroic, and not a model for us
one of the more uncomfortable homilies i can remember included a paean to the “heroic silence” of st maria goretti in the face of prolonged ...
Steven D. Greydanus
The Vatican will have an even tougher time recruiting top talent after scattershot indictments
pope francis speaks with vatican secretary of state, cardinal pietro parolin, during a visit to lima's cathedral on 21 january 2018. (vincen...
Charles Collins
Pope Francis: Pontiff "touched" by prayers, well wishes as Vatican reports post-op "regular and satisfactory"
journalists watch the uefa euro 2020 semi-final match between italy and spain in front of rome's gemelli hospital on 6 july 2021. (isabella ...
Staff Reporter
Free the Latin Mass, for the good of the Church and the people who need it
apparently they never give up. some bishops want “to see the extraordinary form of the roman rite explicitly suppressed, or subject to furth...
David Mills
Pope Francis "rested well during the night"
a picture taken on july 5, 2021 shows the a. gemelli hospital in rome, where pope francis aunderwent surgery on sunday. (andreas solaro/afp ...
Staff Reporter
Oxford Dreams
“i am beginning to take active steps to carry out my oxford dreams,” the dominican fr raphael moss confided to his diary on 26 june 1904. hi...
Rev Dr Richard Finn
Priest jailed on terror charges dies awaiting third bail hearing in India
fr stan swami sj (file photo courtesy of jesuits.org ) the 84-year-old fr stan swami sj died just ahead of his third scheduled bail h...
Benwen Lopez
Doctors forget they are plumbers
the highly praised novelist, columnist for the spectator , the oldie , and the catholic herald , creator of cookbooks, and duckworth's ficti...
Lessons from the Archives
Traditional Latin Mass advocates appeal to Pope to protect Summorum Pontificum
a federation that advocates for the traditional latin mass has appealed to pope francis to protect it from those "within the church, includi...
Catholic News Agency
Pope Francis Recovering after Surgery
pope francis “has reacted well” to a scheduled surgery for an intestinal condition, according to the director of the holy see press office. ...
Staff Reporter
‘We should never have a perfect Church’
canon law is dinner-party talk once more. in households up and down the country, catholic and non-catholic alike, the canonical form of marr...
David Cowan
Cardinal Parolin on Vatican corruption trial: We're victims
pope francis speaks with vatican secretary of state, cardinal pietro parolin, in the vatican, 21 december 2017. (claudio peri/afp via getty ...
Christopher Altieri
Vatican Finances: Cardinal Becciu, 9 others indicted on various charges
pope francis at the weekly general audience, 19 may 2021. (filippo monteforte/afp via getty images) updated with further statements a...
Christopher Altieri
A communion conundrum
until my late father-in-law went into a care home and forgot about church, he’d only missed mass twice in the entire course of his nine deca...
Cressida Connolly
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