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Don't leap to judgment on Harry and Meghan's new venture
one of the mottoes i frequently heard in my youth was “handsome is as handsome does”: this is somewhat akin to the biblical words of wisdom ...
Mary Kenny
Does Malick's new film show the real Franz Jägerstätter?
franz jägerstätter’s life and death raise one question above all: why did he do it? why did this austrian farmer refuse to fight in hitler’s...
Dan Hitchens
Why Lithuania's history disturbs Chinese communists
lithuanians were recently shocked by video footage of a chinese tourist throwing away a small pro-hong kong cross at the country’s hill of c...
The Catholic Herald
The KKK's Prohibition-era war on the Church
in 1923 a local ku klux klan newspaper grumbled about events in gary, indiana. enforcement of prohibition legislation (which came into effec...
Jonathan Wright
Planned Parenthood is worried
planned parenthood released its annual report last week. the company performed 345,672 abortion procedures in the 2018-2019 fiscal year – ea...
C C Pecknold
Why aid is not enough to save Nineveh Plain Christians
patriarch louis sako of the chaldean catholic church took the unprecedented move of cancelling christmas celebrations in iraq, following the...
Mardean Isaac
The end of Iraqi Christianity?
when iran’s general qasem soleimani was killed in a us drone strike in baghdad, iraq’s christians had good reason to be afraid. although the...
John Pontifex
London's nearly perfect pub
last wednesday, at 9pm, i had a splendid choice of murder programmes to watch. there was white house farm, about the 1985 jeremy bamber murd...
Harry Mount
Portugal draws inspiration from the martyrs of Morocco
pope francis has granted the diocese of coimbra, in central portugal, a jubilee year which began on january 12 and will run until january 17...
Filipe D'Avillez
'A true emergency': Spanish government takes on the Church
spain’s catholic bishops have expressed fears of a conflict with the new socialist-led government over radical plans to strip the church of ...
Jonathan Luxmoore
Dialogue and drones: the US Church reflects on Soleimani
the american drone strike that killed an iranian general on january 3 prompted calls for peace from catholic leaders in the us, and a debate...
Jeff Cimmino
A twist in the Tafida story
the directors of the gaslini children’s hospital in genoa last week called a press conference about progress in the condition of one of thei...
Simon Caldwell
The European project according to Pope Francis
one line in pope francis’s “state of the world” address to diplomats last week really stood out, regarding the disaster that struck notre-da...
Christopher R. Altieri
World news: from Covington to Caracas
covington, kentucky cnn reaches settlement with covington student cnn has reached an undisclosed settlement with nick sandmann, a ken...
Staff writers
Meanwhile: Two popes, two nominations
you wait ages for an actor to receive an oscar nomination for playing the pope, and then two come along at once. jonathan pryce has been nom...
Staff writers
The best of the web: an occupied cathedral, Roger Scruton and the McCarrick delay
the catholics who occupied a cathedral at charlotte was both, amy welborn praised an academic article by jennifer scheper hughes, which look...
Staff writers
The week ahead: Novena for Life, Christian unity, turnip throwing
on tuesday january 21, the nine days for life novena begins. it includes the day for life on january 22, which the general instruction of th...
Staff writers
Overlooked: Hungarian government to offer free IVF
what happened? the hungarian government has announced that it will offer free ivf to women, in a move likely to increase tensions with the c...
Staff writers
The big story: Benedict XVI defends celibacy amid authorship furore
what happened? pope emeritus benedict xvi has entered the debate over the future of the priesthood, contributing to a book by cardinal rober...
Staff writers
The celibacy book deserves a more serious response
on sunday, the french newspaper le figaro made a startling announcement. the pope emeritus benedict xvi had contributed to a book defending ...
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