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When fake news turned fatal
hoax: the popish plot that never was by victor stater yale, £20, 336 pages titus oates was a flat-faced con man with no credit or standing i...
Jessie Childs
The murder of Christians in Nigeria has nothing to do with 'climate change'
imagine if after the manchester arena bombing of may 2017 a foreign head of state had attempted to excuse salman abedi for the murder of 22 ...
Simon Caldwell
The Paraclete
it will not be until the last sunday in june that we return to green vestments and our regular cycle of readings from st luke’s gospel. the ...
Fr Richard Ounsworth OP
Pope Francis is correct: all war is unjust
in patrick o’brian’s novel desolation island, captain jack aubrey explains to ship’s physician stephen maturin why aubrey has doubts about h...
Ken Craycraft
Legal Notebook
if the assisted dying bill does return to parliament and become law, who may and may not be statutorily protected from compulsory involvemen...
Sir Stephen Stewart
Painting at center of George Floyd controversy stolen from Catholic University
a pieta painting displayed at the catholic university of america’s law school that some see as depicting george floyd in the place of jesus ...
Joseph Bukuras
The Vatican's trials: Pell's Redemption
a couple of weeks ago, as the trial of cardinal becciu for corruption was announced in the vatican, my parish priest made an announcement ab...
Melanie McDonagh
A monk's letter to a godly man in prison
below is a letter i have written to a prisoner, whose name is joseph. he has been in prison for twenty-fie years and there is no chance for ...
MarkDohle
Full Marx for the Dominican
it’s 20 years ago this year that herbert mccabe died. he was one of the great dominicans of the 20th century, perhaps the most lucid and wit...
Melanie McDonagh
Decline and fall
a sad little notice recently appeared on the universe’s website (“the news site you’ll have faith in”) that “with very much regret” its publ...
Stephen Bates
Pope to Remain in Hospital to Continue Recovery
pope francis will remain in hospital for “a few more days” in order “to optimise his medical and rehabilitation therapy,” according to a sta...
Tommaso Pozzi
The patron saint of footballers ... is an Italian
ten years ago, reporting that the vatican had named st luigi scrosoppi as the patron saint of footballers, the catholic herald 's editors no...
FromtheArchives
The Vatican will have an even tougher time recruiting top talent after scattershot indictments
pope francis speaks with vatican secretary of state, cardinal pietro parolin, during a visit to lima's cathedral on 21 january 2018. (vincen...
Charles Collins
Free the Latin Mass, for the good of the Church and the people who need it
apparently they never give up. some bishops want “to see the extraordinary form of the roman rite explicitly suppressed, or subject to furth...
David Mills
Communion Kerfuffle a Pageant of Idiocy
then us secretary of state john kerry speaks with cardinal secretary of state pietro parolin while then-vice president joe biden and t...
Christopher Altieri
Vatican imposes term limits on leaders of international lay organizations
the vatican’s dicastery for laity, family, and life has issued a new “ general decree ” – approved in forma specifica by pope francis and th...
Staff Reporter
World Health Organisation Formally Accepts Holy See as Non-Member State Observer
on monday, the world health assembly – the governing forum of the world health organisation – formally accepted the holy see as a non-member...
Staff Reporter
A home without a heart
in 1956 the writer evelyn waugh bought a handsome house in the shadow of the quantock hills for £7,500. made of red sandstone, like the red ...
Sophia Waugh
Synodality can work ... if leadership lets it
the mechanism of the salisbury cathedral clock shortly after its restoration, july 1956. (folb/topical press agency/hulton archive/getty ima...
Charles Collins
The "new" synodal "process" is under-thought and oversold
by now, you’ve probably heard that pope francis postponed the upcoming synod on synodality for a full year, from october 2022 to october 202...
Christopher Altieri
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