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Morning Catholic must-reads: 16/03/17
A daily guide to what's happening in the Catholic Church
Luke Coppen
First martyr born in the United States to be beatified in September
Fr Stanley Rother was gunned down in his rectory during the civil war in Guatemala
Catholic News Service
Papal agency marks 90 years of quietly serving poor from Ukraine to India
The Catholic Near East Welfare Association maintains a low profile but is remarkably effective
Catholic News Service
Why are feminists attacking cathedrals in the Pope's homeland?
If you are opposed to the Church, is setting fire to its buildings the best argument that you can advance against it?
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
Why is the Home Office turning priests away?
St Anselm’s has been driven out by the Government’s failure to grasp religious life
Ann Widdecombe
Find Mass boring? Good!
Praying through the tedium can be a more authentic way of sharing the divine life. Call it ‘bored again Catholicism’
Timothy O'Malley
The new population bomb
European countries are desperately trying to raise their fertility rates. But nothing seems to be working
Dennis Sewell
The kids are all right
it is the fate of every generation to be defined by its extremes. thus young people today are derided as the “snowflake generation”: thin-sk...
The Catholic Herald
The big story of the past seven days
✣ francis enters his fifth year as pope what happened? monday marked the fourth-year anniversary of pope francis’s election as the 266...
Staff writers
The best of the Catholic blogosphere
✣ highlights from the week online is us christianity in a state of emergency? christian bloggers are currently debating a new book fr...
Staff writers
Gove: May is ‘first Catholic prime minister’
theresa may is effectively “britain’s first catholic prime minister”, the former education secretary michael gove has claimed. in an article...
Staff writers
MP: we need to ‘chip away’ at Catholic schools
a recording of an mp discussing how to end catholic education in scotland has been condemned as “chilling” by a bishops’ conference official...
Staff writers
Secularists face long-term decline, claims study
secularism will decline worldwide while religion grows, according to a new study in the journal evolutionary psychological science. the find...
Staff writers
Father of Spain’s ‘largest family’ dies
the father of a family reputed to be the largest in spain has died aged 56 after a battle with cancer. josé maria chema postigo and his wife...
Staff writers
In brief
four sisters killed in crash in ethiopia four daughters of st anne sisters, including the provincial superior, were killed last week when th...
Staff writers
Married priests are back on the agenda
in 2005, at a vatican synod on the eucharist, cardinal angelo scola floated a trial balloon. “to confront the issue of the shortage of pries...
Dan Hitchens
The new population bomb
at the end of last month a three-day workshop was held in the vatican on the sombre topic of “biological extinction”. the event was jointly ...
Dennis Sewell
Find Mass boring? Good!
as citizens of late modern life, we seek to avoid boredom. we alleviate the stillness of a quiet moment by turning to our smartphones. we de...
Timothy O'Malley
Why is the Home Office turning priests away?
a catholic mp, carol monaghan, appeared at a committee meeting on ash wednesday with a cross on her forehead. she had, of course, been to ma...
Ann Widdecombe
Finding the hidden streams of spirituality
the third sunday of lent ex 17:3-7; ps 95; rom 5:1-2, 5-8; jn 4:5-42 recently, i read an article about benedict xvi’s visit to britain in se...
Bishop Philip Egan
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