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Don’t blame me for May’s election woes
A more skilful politician could have appealed to the big new Tory working-class group while also holding enough liberals from the Cameron era
David Goodhart
Death of the ‘airport bishop’
when the new archbishop of milan stood up to give his first speech to his new diocese last friday he wore a crumpled jacket over a faded cle...
The Catholic Herald
The big story of the past seven days
✣ world gripped by battle over charlie gard what happened? pope francis and donald trump drew the attention of the world’s media to 1...
Staff writers
The best of the blogosphere
✣ highlights from the week online the giant who spoke for st john paul ii joaquin navarro-valls, st john paul ii’s spokesman for many years,...
Staff writers
Traditionalists save second church in Preston
the bishop of lancaster has entrusted a beautiful pugin church in preston to a traditionalist institute. the grade-ii listed church of st th...
Staff writers
Ordinations in Scotland reach 20-year high
the scottish church has seen a surge in ordinations, with 12 priests ordained this year, the largest number in two decades. bishop john keen...
Staff writers
Ordinations in Scotland reach 20-year high
Some have attributed to the rise to a 'Benedict bounce' triggered by the former Pope's visit in 2010
Staff Reporter
Cardinal criticises Pope over sudden dismissal
cardinal gerhard müller has criticised the way in which pope francis dismissed him as head of the congregation for the doctrine of the faith...
Staff writers
Bishop: abortion is not a ‘core Canadian value’
the head of the canadian bishops’ conference has criticised canada’s foreign minister for saying that abortion rights are a cornerstone of t...
Staff writers
Vatican lays down law on gluten-free hosts
the vatican has reminded bishops that completely gluten-free hosts are invalid. low-gluten hosts, on the other hand, are valid for people wh...
Staff writers
Archbishop must go, says coadjutor
the coadjutor bishop of guam has said that the island’s archbishop should not return to lead the diocese regardless of the outcome of a vati...
Staff writers
Does anyone care for our priests?
earlier this month it was reported that eight priests in ireland had committed suicide in the past 10 years. the association of catholic pri...
Nick Hallett
David Goodhart: Don’t blame me for May’s election woes
stephen bush argued in the new statesman recently, with back-handed flattery, that my analysis of british politics based around diverging va...
David Goodhart
The poisoning of American Catholicism
in february 2016, pope francis set off a media firestorm when he took an unprecedented shot at then presidential candidate donald trump. “a ...
Michael Warren Davis
Can anything stop Catholic infighting?
my first parish priest was a little old man with pebble spectacles who looked like a gorgeously coloured beetle as he bent over the altar in...
Damian Thompson
The last night of a spiritual titan
"a giant”: that is how a high-ranking prelate in the roman curia describes joachim meisner, the german cardinal who died suddenly last week....
Marco Tosatti
Our ‘Nonno’ never forgot his roots
my grandfather, charles forte, came with his parents to scotland from italy as a child at a time when that was more unusual. he hailed from ...
Alex Polizzi
Triumph of the box-tickers
the old soviet system of over-bureaucratisation did not die with the ussr; it transmigrated into britain’s higher education system. when i s...
John Charmley
Science and faith: Is Ian Brady in hell?
in may this year an unrepentant ian brady, the moors murderer, died. terry kilbride, the brother of a victim, hoped that brady would “rot in...
Quentin de la Bedoyere
Brexit’s Catholic Mr Fixit
two days before britain voted to leave the european union, shanker singham wrote an article arguing in favour of remain. yet today he is bus...
Luke Coppen
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