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The end of the ‘Hitler’s Pope’ myth

it has scarcely been noticed in britain, but a remarkable development has recently taken place in holocaust studies. nearly two years ago, t...

Fr Leo Chamberlain OSB

Population alarmism stinks

horsesh––. that’s what came to mind when reading reports of the recent meeting of the pontifical academy of social sciences (pass), convened...

Fr Raymond de Souza

God’s gift to the powerless

the second sunday of lent gn 12:1-4a; ps 33; 2 tm 1:8b-10; mt 17:1-9 reality or vision, this we have seen. if it had lasted but another mome...

Archbishop George Stack

Let’s be clear on conscience

in a recent letter to this magazine, wilfred jones, a younger, and clearly devout catholic, describes his and his friends’ doubts about pope...

Quentin de la Bedoyere

‘I’m not just a glam woman in showbiz’

at the end of patti boulaye’s autobiography, at the bottom of page 352, the sharp-sighted will spot some mysterious initials. after the fina...

Rachel Kelly

Mary Kenny: Sex education and the city

there’s nothing wrong with sex education, even for quite young children, as is now being proposed. it’s understandable that we don’t want to...

Mary Kenny

New Utah bishop is first Filipino-born prelate to lead US diocese

Bishop Oscar Solis previously served as an auxiliary bishop in Los Angeles diocese

Associated Press

Comments of the week

as a prisoner, i know bishop moth is right sir – i write to offer my gratitude to bishop richard moth for highlighting the desperate fact th...

The Catholic Herald

This Lent, rediscover Oxford’s forgotten poet

in early 14th-century oxford, surrounded by some of the foremost theologians of medieval europe, a franciscan friar named william herebert w...

Eleanor Parker

Fine Art: Refugee horrors captured by a lab-cold lens

the maltese ship that decorated the nativity scene in st peter’s square this past christmas memorialised the plight of the refugee, a haunti...

Miguel Cullen

Television: A most Anglican Sunday evening in

the rev richard coles has that classic anglican vicar look. a half-smile containing lots of teeth. wise, but wise enough not to let it show....

Tim Stanley

Theatre: Unscripted sex change upstages Shakespeare

shakespeare’s twelfth night is already famous for its gender and sex confusion without malvolio having a sex change. on the national theatre...

Robert Tanitch

The heroism and romance of persecuted Catholics

the catholics by roy hattersley, chatto and windus, £25 roy hattersley is the son of a catholic priest, as he recounts in the opening pages ...

AN Wilson

Does Roger Scruton think like a horse?

on human nature by roger scruton, princeton, £18.95 ignore the knighthood, the professorships, the medals, the 40 or so elegantly argued boo...

Michael Duggan

Briefly noted

care for creation by pope francis (orbis/alban books, £12.99) . this collection of the writings, speeches and homilies of pope francis spell...

Staff writers

Word This Week

second sunday of lent gen 12:1-4; 2 tim 1:8-10; mt 17:1-9 (year a) lent is a season of repentance underpinned by a clear vision of hope. it ...

Bishop David McGough

Omnium Gatherum

each year during the first full week of lent, catholics for centuries have observed the ember days. there are four sets of these days (wedne...

Fr John Zuhlsdorf

Lectio Divina

1 six days later jesus took with him peter and the brothers james and john and led them up a high mountain where they were alone. 2 as they ...

Mgr Anthony Abela

Trump's latest travel ban still endangers most vulnerable, say Catholic bishops

Donald Trump's latest executive order bans arrivals from six majority-Muslim nations

Catholic News Service

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