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Standoff at the Vatican
last week was one of the strangest in rome in recent memory. it began with the news that four cardinals had asked pope francis to answer fiv...
The Catholic Herald
The big story of the past seven days
✣ pope accuses amoris critics of legalism what happened? pope francis has said the bishops who have criticised amoris laetitia suffer...
Staff writers
Rise in extremism ‘is destabilising the West’
islamist “hyper-extremism” could destabilise the west, according to a report that studies religious freedom in all 196 of the world’s countr...
Staff writers
Church goes to High Court over school admissions
the church is to mount a challenge in the high court against a ruling by the government’s schools adjudicator on admission policy to oversub...
Staff writers
Francis recalls harrowing Year of Mercy visits
meeting a mother mourning a newborn baby and visiting young women rescued from forced prostitution are moments from the year of mercy that r...
Staff writers
Abortion decree is extended beyond Year of Mercy
pope francis is allowing all priests to absolve the “grave sin” of abortion, extending special permission he had granted them for the holy y...
Staff writers
In brief
lawyers appeal over artist’s theft of hosts a group of christian lawyers in spain have said they will appeal a judge’s decision not to prose...
Staff writers
What will bring peace to Syria?
the worst thing about living in aleppo? according to jean-clément jeanbart, the local catholic archbishop, it’s the anxiety. christians in a...
Dan Hitchens
Fr Alexander Sherbrooke: The saints go marching into Soho
in these last few days we have welcomed the relics of st claude de la colombière and st margaret mary alacoque to the streets and the centre...
Fr Alexander Sherbrooke
No one is safe any more
isis-style extremists are not new: they are indeed a more obvious part of human history than western-style liberals. they are, however, newl...
Gerard Russell
After ISIS, there are more horrors to come
islamist “hyper-extremism” is not only destroying the multi-faith ecology of the middle east but also threatening parts of africa and the we...
Rupert Shortt
The order of unsung heroes
‘between believers, we have a better understanding of each other,” the grand hospitaller of the order of malta tells me. he is characteristi...
Constance Watson
What Trump and Francis have in common
it would seem that between the american president-elect and the pope there is a chasm, the former representing a triumph for those values mo...
Fr Raymond de Souza
The Reformation’s whipping boy
johann tetzel, the german dominican friar and preacher of indulgences, is a favourite whipping boy for students of the protestant “reformati...
Dave Armstrong
The ultimate wake-up call
first week of advent 'to live is to change, to be perfect is to have changed often.” this simple saying of blessed john henry newman can mak...
Mgr John Armitage
Who is the real Stephen Bannon?
few people in american history have been savaged so viciously by the press as donald trump during this year’s election. but the media quickl...
Michael Warren Davis
Mary Kenny: Spare us the feminist fairy tales
the most uplifting interpretation of beauty and the beast that i ever saw was the movie made by jean cocteau in 1946, la belle et la bête. i...
Mary Kenny
Comments of the Week
the ordinariate needs its own churches sir – i had the pleasure of attending the ordinariate mass discussed by stephen bullivant in his rece...
The Catholic Herald
The sculptor who created ballets for the soul
the neoclassical sculptor antonio canova (1757-1822) had a lifelong passion for dance. during his early years in rome, he would often go wal...
Alexander Lee
Film: On the edge of being a great high school film
the edge of seventeen (12a, 104 mins, ★★★ ) hailee steinfeld made a huge impression back in 2010 when she made her big-screen de...
Will Gore
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