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Mount Sinai: why the West must wake up to the erasure of Christianity in the Middle East
the last few decades have been terrible for christians in the levant and wider middle east. the iraq war and the rise of islamic state and a...
Alexander Stafford MP
Lebanese Church thrives against all odds maintaining 1,600-year link with Rome
when i recently visited lebanon with aid to the church in need (acn), i expected to find a suffering church. instead, i encountered a vibran...
Amy Balog
Pope Leo sets the tone while maintaining Francis’s mission to reform Curia
as pope leo xiv settles into his new role on the throne of peter, early indications suggest that he will respect and maintain the direction ...
Elise Allen
Catholic official responds to Trump’s claims of white 'genocide' in South Africa
a catholic official with the southern africa bishops’ conference has responded to the recent controversy surrounding the meeting between the...
Ngala Chimton / Crux
'Controlling desire': the Ozempic weight-loss craze and its effect on contraception
last week, the guardian’s curiously-titled health and inequalities correspondent reported that the medicines and healthcare products regulat...
Anthony McCarthy
Catholics urged to protest to MPs over hijack of Bill to allow abortion up to birth
the archbishop of liverpool has urged catholics to write to their mps to oppose hijacking amendments to a government bill to allow abortion ...
Simon Caldwell
Nigeria's bishops demand end to jihadi violence after 100 die in fresh attacks
catholic bishops in nigeria have renewed their demands for an end to the killing of christians in the country, saying there is “no justifica...
Ngala Killian Chimtom
Pope Leo orders removal of Rupnik's 'rape art' from Vatican websites
images of artwork created by a disgraced celebrity cleric accused of rape have disappeared from official vatican media websites without expl...
The Catholic Herald
Biden-era FBI misled Congress over Catholic surveillance, documents reveal
newly released documents have confirmed that the fbi’s surveillance of traditionalist catholic communities was more extensive than previousl...
Thomas Edwards
Southern Baptists consider move to overturn same-sex marriage
the southern baptist convention (sbc) – the largest protestant denomination in the united states – is convening its annual meeting in dallas...
The Catholic Herald
Pope Leo XIV one month on
the so-called “rorschach test” stage of the papacy – in which people can project whatever they want onto the pope in this early period – con...
Elise Ann Allen
The rainbow flag and the Sacred Heart: a battle for the soul of June
the rainbow flag, flown everywhere in “pride month”, is not what it pretends to be. its ubiquitous success feeds off our naivety and gullibi...
Gavin Ashenden
Pope Leo XIV: the Holy Spirit challenges our digital isolation
pope leo xiv has marked pentecost sunday by describing how the holy spirit “is the gift that opens our lives to love" and opens borders in p...
Charles Collins
The liturgy that built the West: Cosima Gillhammer’s illuminating new book
cosima gillhammer’s new book about the liturgy may well foster a renewed appreciation for what has, for many, become routine; light on darkn...
Max Lau
True freedom means letting the Holy Spirit consume us like the 12 Apostles
“and divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them” (acts 2:3) pentecost was a feast when the jews offered burn...
Fr David Howell
On pilgrimage with Sebastian Morello, writer and protégé of Roger Scruton
where would you go? a book to which i keep returning is the black virgin by the french philosopher and theologian jean hani. since i read th...
The Catholic Herald
Christian unity can't come from a ‘blueprint’, says Pope Leo
pope leo xiv has discussed how unity in the church won't come from "our own efforts" nor "through any preconceived model or blueprint", rath...
Charles Collins
Pope Leo offers world’s journalists a truly alternative form of media
on 12 may 2025, pope leo xiv addressed journalists who had come from all over the world to the vatican to hear from the new pontiff. in his ...
The Catholic Herald
Will Gaudí the genius become Gaudí the saint?
on 14 april, the late pope francis declared the catalan architect antoni gaudí a venerable servant of god, recognising his heroic virtues. i...
Benjamin Ivry
Pluscarden Abbey's hard-fought return to the Church
it is hard to know which is more wonderful: the fact that pluscarden abbey survives at all, or the fact that the way of life of its communit...
Alexander Norman
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