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Meanwhile: Pray and display
a church in avezzano, central italy, has put a “pray and display” sign in its car park. fr vincenzo de mario of the madonna del passo church...
Staff writers
Prize crossword 0616
cryptic across 7 camouflaged crusader chap’s hard-wearing uniforms on sundays? (6,7) 8 where paul landed against the tide, going west, is th...
Alun Evans
Words, hymns and moderation: Newman and the genius of English Catholicism
does the canonisation of st john henry newman mean approbation for something more than a single, splendid, sanctified life? does it celebrat...
Fr Raymond de Souza
Priests and nuns are a common sight in the DRC's civil service
the code of canon law states that “clerics are forbidden to assume public offices which entail a participation in the exercise of civil powe...
Antoine Roger Lokongo
Quotes of the week
"it has been the experience of a thousand lifetimes" melissa villalobos, who was miraculously healed by st john henry newman, ...
Staff writers
The best of the web: Whistleblowing seminarians, incivility, confession for couples
priests and seminarians challenge the silence until recently, wrote michelle boorstein at washingtonpost.com, it was practically “unheard of...
Staff writers
Prize crossword 0614
cryptic across 7 new zealander, troublesome and ludicrously lewd, outed a galilean (8) 8 brown horse leaves home after cow at last moves out...
Alun Evans
The courtroom hug that showed Christianity in action
i can entirely understand why some people thought brandt jean shouldn’t forgive amber guyger. guyger killed his brother. on september 6, 201...
Tim Stanley
The saint whose life was 'a history of failures'
john henry newman’s life can well be described as one of continual failures, if only because that was how he saw it. “all through life thing...
Fr Ian Ker
Pronoun showdown: A judge upholds a Christian doctor's dismissal
a judge has declared the belief that god created everyone as either male and female, and that this cannot be changed, as “incompatible with ...
Simon Caldwell
Prize crossword 0613
cryptic across 5 arabs hate missile hits (11) 8 place in gilead’s a goal for leading actor’s comeback (8) 9 florida has a few of these from ...
Alun Evans
The 'Te Deum' that needs 1,000 musicians
what makes an agnostic composer, with no strong connections to any faith, devote eight years of his life to composing a symphony requiring –...
The Catholic Herald
Prize crossword 0612
cryptic across 6 kinky hermaphrodites have no deviant harm, admitted 18d’s wicked accuser (10) 8 without hesitation, as they say, meet at ph...
Alun Evans
Why ever more priests are declining to become bishops
this friday, september 27, william joensen will be ordained the new bishop of des moines, iowa. fr bill and i have taught together for more ...
Fr Raymond de Souza
Why the German bishops are in such a hurry
tensions between rome and the german bishops are high at the moment, with repeated warnings from several high-ranking curial officials and o...
Christopher R. Altieri
The big story: Influential priest accused of 'ambiguity'
what happened? archbishop charles chaput of philadelphia has criticised the influential priest-author fr james martin, saying his work ...
Staff writers
Prize crossword 0611
cryptic across 7 dog one from strasbourg (8) 8 chap’s going back to the old country (4) 9 how americans familiarize with the east (6) 10 jus...
Alun Evans
The big story: Pope Francis: 'I'm not afraid of schism'
what happened? pope francis has raised the prospect of schism, telling reporters that it is a constant possibility in the church. answering ...
Staff writers
Prize crossword 0610
cryptic across 5 acts that define the proconsul of achaia? (6) 7 old imperial port old quack imbibed in booth (6) 9 numbers giant among obse...
Alun Evans
The man who was the English-speaking world's gateway to the popes
to the question, “how many people actually work in the vatican?”, pope john xxiii supposedly replied, “about half.” it has become part of ca...
Fr Dominic Allain
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