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✣ highlights from the week online the priest who used to live on the street catholic news agency told the remarkable story of fr clau...
Staff writers
Be like goalkeepers, Pope tells Irish bishops
pope francis spent almost two hours talking to ireland’s bishops last week, telling them he wanted to hear their questions, concerns and eve...
Staff writers
Vatican advisers clash on Pope’s abuse reforms
two members of pope francis’s commission on child protection have clashed over the effectiveness of recent reforms. the psychiatrist barones...
Staff writers
Luther wanted to renew the Church, says Pope
pope francis has told lutheran pilgrims from finland that martin luther’s intention 500 years ago “was to renew the church, not divide her”....
Staff writers
Friar: a sense of hope is growing in Aleppo
a franciscan friar who visited the syrian city of aleppo last week has said that the devastation there is beyond what people can imagine. fr...
Staff writers
Francis: we must ‘wait and see’ on Trump
as president donald trump was being sworn in, pope francis told an interviewer it would be “reckless” to pass judgment on the new president ...
Staff writers
Ordinariate issues Amoris guidelines
bishop steven lopes, head of the american ordinariate, has reaffirmed traditional church teaching on communion for the remarried. a pastoral...
Staff writers
Church closures: a path to growth?
pastoral letters from bishops announcing church closures usually try to hit an upbeat note. two current shake-ups, in wrexham and salford, e...
Madeleine Teahan
Ex-Anglicans have been here before
last week a bishop offered the faithful some timely reassurance. bishop steven lopes leads the american branch of the ordinariate – a group ...
Fr Ed Tomlinson
The Maltese furore
the apostle paul brought the gospel to malta, and the maltese today arguably remain the most catholic people on the planet, despite plunging...
Fr Mark Drew
Orthodox Catholicism’s eastern outpost
of all the countries you might expect to take centre stage in the church’s internal drama, a muslim-majority former soviet republic with a m...
Dan Hitchens
Who’s better? Ask the Little Sisters
the massive women’s march against donald trump was billed as being open to all, but they would not have made room on the podium for the litt...
Fr Raymond de Souza
Spies, lies and the Catholic faith
last year the daily telegraph reported that a devout christian was rejected for a job at the government’s communications headquarters (gchq)...
Celia Chard
When having a baby is dangerous
the honourable henry thynn was born on december 30, 2016. his father was lord weymouth, but lady weymouth, 30 years old, did not give birth....
Quentin de la Bedoyere
The wreck that nearly ruined me
this is the second of a two-part feature; the first was published last week the abbey house first came into view as we walked along the old ...
William Cash
Mary Kenny: A march to nowhere
i was upbraided by a “facebook friend” for not being present at one of the women’s marches against president trump and his administration la...
Mary Kenny
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parishes aren’t taking loneliness seriously sir – mary kenny’s article, “we’ll never wipe out loneliness” (january 13), was both interesting...
The Catholic Herald
The Christian sense and sensibility of Jane Austen
this year marks the bicentenary of jane austen’s death, at the age of 41. what sort of christian was this imaginative and highly intelligent...
Peter Mullen
Film: Making trouble in the rock’n’roll underworld
danny says (unrated, 105 mins, ★★★ ) danny fields, the gadfly-entrepreneur of us pop and proto-punk, is attracted to “crazy peop...
Ian Thomson
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