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The Knights have had painful clashes with the Vatican before. They can survive this too
The difficulties of the 1950s, recorded in a celebrated novel, have many parallels to today
Paolo Gambi
Yes, the Order of Malta is Catholic. That doesn't legitimise this Vatican inquiry
Unless the Pope formally abrogates the Order's rights, no Vatican department can investigate the Order – and certainly not the Secretariat of State
Ed Condon
Thomas Merton’s cheerful radicalism
the root of war is fear by jim forest, orbis, £17.99 as a trappist, thomas merton “belonged to a religious order with a tradition of silent ...
Jonathan Wright
Television: True evil is rarely a monster with fangs
viewers complain that they can’t hear every word being said in rillington place (bbc one, tuesdays, 9pm) because the actors mumble. that mig...
Tim Stanley
Morning Catholic must-reads: 09/12/16
A daily guide to what's happening in the Catholic Church
Luke Coppen
St John Paul II truly understood the importance of absolute values
Freedom without the underpinning of clear and absolute values is not freedom at all
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
Television: An ingenious attempt to explain everything
adam curtis’s hypernormalisation (available on bbc iplayer) is an ingenious attempt to explain everything. from damascus to washington, via ...
Tim Stanley
Vatican doctrinal chief: it’s not my job to engage in the dubia controversy
Cardinal Gerhard Müller said the CDF could only speak with the authority of the Pope
Staff Reporter
What Trump and Francis have in common
it would seem that between the american president-elect and the pope there is a chasm, the former representing a triumph for those values mo...
Fr Raymond de Souza
Nice, warm-hearted, blokey – and wrong
ethics in the real world by peter singer, princeton, £19.95 according to princeton’s blurb-writer, singer “is often described as the world’s...
John Rist
What Trump and Francis have in common
Both Pontiff and President-elect have caused the press to exclaim 'Did he really just say that?'
Fr Raymond de Souza
Pascal’s wager under the knife
does god exist? it’s a fair question. i am not a betting man, but i can do the arithmetic of chance versus reward. and this is quite straigh...
Quentin de la Bedoyere
Cardinal Burke: we will make 'formal act of correction' if Pope doesn't issue Amoris clarification
The cardinal said there was a tradition of issuing a formal correction if a Pope is in error
Dan Hitchens
Morning Catholic must-reads: 11/11/16
A daily guide to what's happening in the Catholic Church
Luke Coppen
Why politicians are talking past each other
enough said by mark thompson, bodley head, £25 mark thompson, former director-general of the bbc and now ceo of the new york times, has writ...
Jack Carrigan
Christian couple barred from adoption over views on same-sex parenting
The foster parents believe that children need a mother and a father
Staff Reporter
In Rome, personal attacks are replacing debate
A new mode of Vatican rhetoric, characterised by assertions and attacks, is one of the greatest contrasts with the past 35 years
Fr Raymond de Souza
ISIS must face justice
the bells of a church in bartella rang out last week for the first time since 2014. that was the year isis captured the town which lies 13 m...
Staff writers
Ad hominem rules in Rome
my column here a fortnight ago, looking back at the family synod a year later, earned a rebuke from fr thomas rosica, who called it “truly r...
Fr Raymond de Souza
The Church tilts south
the historic election of the first non-european jesuit superior-general points to two great trends in the church. first, the new focus on la...
Andrew Chesnut
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