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1 students at st george’s college, weybridge, celebrate their a-level results. 2 students and teachers at mayfield school in sussex. 3 lucy ...

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In the cause of God’s vagabond

‘you’ve been hacked.” it’s the message no internet user wants to hear. in my case, the message came at the end of february this year from fr...

David Crystal

Philippines a ‘killing fields nation’

philippine catholic leaders say they are powerless to stop a growing number of extrajudicial killings that have come with president rodrigo ...

Staff writers

Violence in Milwaukee deplorable, says Archbishop

The Archbishop of Milwaukee has called for calm after violent protests erupted following a police shooting

Catholic News Service

Pictures of the Week

1 bishop séamus cunningham of hexham and newcastle has ordained ordinariate member ian westby to the diaconate in the presence of mgr keith ...

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Bangladeshi Catholic editor flees country in fear of her life

Rosaline Costa had faced harassment and threats – when she went to police they would not even file a report

Catholic News Service

Tim Kaine must not get away with styling himself a 'Pope Francis Catholic'

The Vatican may need to step in and rebuke Hillary Clinton's pro-abortion running mate

Deal Hudson

Pope praises witness of 10 athletes on Refugee Olympic Team

The 2016 Summer Games in Rio marks the first time a refugee team has officially participated in the Olympics

Cindy Wooden

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Luke Coppen

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Prize crossword 0451

cryptic across 5 order for those coming off the rails in london? (11) 7 incline in scotland to be british at each turn (4) 8 name one that’s...

Alun Evans

Pictures of the Week

1 participants at an international conference on human trafficking held by the medaille trust in bled, slovenia. 2 a booklet in honour of th...

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Dublin archbishop to stop sending seminarians to Maynooth

Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin made the decision after allegations of inappropriate sexual behaviour

Catholic News Service

Health alert for Italian WYD pilgrims after young woman dies of meningitis

The Italian bishops' conference advised all pilgrims who visited or attended events at its Casa Italia centre to see a doctor

Catholic News Service

No, Benedict XVI hasn’t been brainwashed

The Pope Emeritus stating there is no unpublished secret has only fuelled the Fatima rumour machine

Joanna Bogle

The Catholic moment has arrived

After the Brexit vote, Britain's politicians are scrambling around for ideas. They should begin with Pope Leo XIII's masterpiece Rerum Novarum

Maurice Glasman

No, Benedict XVI hasn’t been brainwashed

when i was in rome at the end of may, benedict xvi issued an important statement in response to scurrilous material published on the interne...

Joanna Bogle

The Catholic moment has arrived

it wasn’t very long ago that the european union was denounced as a “popish plot”. if only. true, the treaty of rome of 1957 marked the high ...

Maurice Glasman

Pictures of the week

1 bishop paul mason with thanet deanery deacons ambrose tuckell, james burleigh, neville gascoigne and charles parker. deacon burleigh ...

Staff writers

Former Catholic Herald editor Gerard Noel dies aged 89

He was the only person ever to have edited the publication twice

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