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Why 'Uncle Ted' didn't want to be called a father
The Archbishop's easygoing persona was a social strategy – and a theological stance
Matthew Schmitz
Matthew Schmitz: The avuncular archbishop
theodore mccarrick did not want to be known as a father. he encouraged young men and boys to call him “uncle”, and called them his nephews i...
Matthew Schmitz
British anti-Semitism has a long history
the labour party is being rocked by allegations of anti-semitism from a number of sources. the board of deputies of british jews has claimed...
Mary Kenny
Comments of the week
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The Catholic Herald
Pope Francis changes Catechism to say death penalty 'inadmissible'
Cardinal Ladaria said the change does not contradict previous Church teaching
Staff Reporter
1,030 years after the Baptism of Rus', the Vatican is turning its back on Ukrainian Catholics
Pragmatism towards Russian Orthodoxy is beginning to look like appeasement
Fr Raymond de Souza
It is irresponsible for a Catholic publication to liken Salvini to Satan
Famiglia Cristiana's description of the Italian Interior Minister is an extraordinary personal attack
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
Consecrated virgins: Body and soul
the vatican has caused alarm by saying consecrated virgins need not be virgins since 1970, when the rite of consecration of virgins was rein...
Dan Hitchens
Fr Raymond J de Souza: A millennial problem
is pope francis, like donald trump, guilty of abject capitulation to russia’s vladimir putin? that question was raised by one of the most re...
Fr Raymond de Souza
Melissa Kite: In praise of boring holidays
since i began renovating my house, i haven’t been able to afford to go anywhere, exotic or otherwise. “holidays? oh, i remember those,” i sa...
Melissa Kite
The only way to protect children online is parental responsibility
Filters and censorship don't work, so parents should educate their children
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
The best of the web
✣ highlights from the week online cleared of murder – then hugged by a pope amaury coutansais-pervinquière told the incredible story of toma...
Staff writers
Diary: by Harry Mount
why do british men wear socks and jackets during the intense heat? after years of sweating through summer parties, i’ve made a breakthrough ...
Harry Mount
Comments of the week
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The Catholic Herald
Arts essay: Mary’s dramatic life needs no embellishment
we may think that parliament can be a little fractious these days, but we are pale shadows of our tudor forebears. in 1586 job throckmorton,...
Jonathan Wright
Fine art: From inside an asylum, an imagination set sail
james henry pullen spent all his life after the age of 12 in asylums. in 1855, aged 20, he moved to the newly opened asylum for idiots at ha...
David V Barrett
Theatre: Holiday's fall leaves the audience gasping
audra mcdonald won a great many awards in new york for her solo performance in lady day at emerson’s bar & grill – a tribute to the sing...
Robert Tanitch
Sixth-century cell of St Columba discovered
An untested sample of the cell had been kept in a garage in Cornwall for several decades
Staff Reporter
The Australian Church must hold its nerve
the sexual abuse charges against cardinal george pell by the victoria police are a test for australian criminal justice, the australian chur...
Fr Raymond de Souza
Pictures of the week
1 archbishop bernard longley has ordained seven deacons, for the dioceses of birmingham, brentwood, cardiff, hallam, menevia and salford, at...
The Catholic Herald
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