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New Oratory to be launched this month
a new oratory for bournemouth will be launched this month, the diocese of portsmouth has announced. it will be the sixth community of orator...
Staff Reporter
Egypt is a beacon of hope and refuge, Pope Francis says
Egypt has the task of promoting a lasting peace that "rests not on the law of force but on the force of law", the Pope said
Junno Arocho Esteves
First ever beatification to take place in Ireland
the first beatification ceremony to be held in ireland will take place in dublin next saturday. fr john sullivan, a jesuit famed for his dev...
Staff Reporter
Francis honours Copts killed in bomb blast
on his first evening in egypt pope francis prayed with coptic orthodox pope tawadros ii at the site where dozens of coptic orthodox christia...
Staff Reporter
Pope Francis to meet Aung San Suu Kyi at Vatican
The nobel laureate has become a more controversial figure since coming to power last year
Nick Hallett
Unmask violence in God’s name, urges Pope
pope francis urged religious leaders to “unmask the violence” masquerading as holy and condemn religiously inspired hatred as an idolatrous ...
Staff Reporter
Order to allow euthanasia in its hospitals
a religious order that serves people with mental health problems has announced that it will allow euthanasia in its hospitals in belgium. th...
Staff Reporter
News in brief
pope appeals for peace amid venezuela unrest pope francis has urged both of venezuela’s main political parties to ensure that “every further...
Staff writers
Knights do battle over order’s soul
“when you come to a fork in the road,” yogi berra is said to have recommended, “take it.” that is more or less what the order of malta have ...
Dan Hitchens
Stephen Daisley: The moral agony of the lifelong Labour voter
it’s the dilemma facing millions of moderate labour voters: can they in good conscience support their party this time around without endorsi...
Stephen Daisley
Nick Hallett: My journey from atheism to Catholicism
it seemed obvious, really. how could i ever have been so foolish as not to believe in god? what a small, miserable universe i inhabited befo...
Nick Hallett
The next evolution
at first glance, it looks as though the sea of faith has well and truly evaporated. at the start of lent this year, the bbc expressed puzzle...
Ed West
We all know how to raise kids – don’t we?
strong families make for happy people. i always subscribed to this sentiment, even though, or maybe because, my own parents had divorced. bu...
Cristina Odone
It’s 1978 all over again
i was on my way to morning assembly when my friend smith called out: “oy, thompson, did you hear that the pope’s dead?” i knew most boys cou...
Damian Thompson
The election with no right answer
‘la peste ou le choléra’: the plague or cholera. this expression perfectly captures the dilemma of french catholics at the ballot box this s...
Pierre Jova
William Cash: Theresa May’s secret A-list
my sources in westminster say that it was the chance to be elected for a “full five more years” that was the deciding factor for calling the...
William Cash
Atheism’s harsh consequences
i fear we are losing the capacity for proportionate response to misbehaviour, to temper justice with mercy, to forgive the penitent and to r...
Conrad Black
Mary Kenny: Squabbling? Try divorce Irish-style
as brexit is constantly compared to the process of divorce, how about suggesting a parallel with what used to be known as “divorce irish-sty...
Mary Kenny
Comments of the week
let’s pay parents to bring up their children sir – david goodhart (cover story, april 21) describes childcare as “the most important job on ...
The Catholic Herald
The adventures of Poland’s ‘ecstatic pessimist’
it is the late 1970s. from his study on grizzly peak, california, a 66-year-old man gazes out on the pacific ocean, and asks himself: “who w...
Michael Duggan
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