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Atheism’s harsh consequences
i fear we are losing the capacity for proportionate response to misbehaviour, to temper justice with mercy, to forgive the penitent and to r...
Conrad Black
What Pope Francis got right - and wrong - in his attack on libertarianism
Mainstream believers in the free market do not think that ‘all relationships that create ties must be eliminated’
Philip Booth
Professor teaches Twitter course on St Augustine's 'City of God'
The professor, Chad Pecknold, was shocked when thousands signed up for the 15-week seminar
Kelly Seegers
Science and faith: The Greek prophet of the Gospel
when cardinal joseph ratzinger spoke to his fellow bishops on the subject of conscience and law in 1991, he referred to socrates, the pagan,...
Quentin de la Bedoyere
A year to look backwards
The anniversaries of 2017 are a chance to ponder events that profoundly shape the world today
Fr Raymond de Souza
A year to look backwards
the anniversary is the columnist’s reliable friend. nothing in the news today worthy of comment? how about the news of 10, 50 or 100 years a...
Fr Raymond de Souza
The Pope's example in tackling anti-Semitism is a model for all leaders
Work to reach out to communities and confront anti-Semitic mindsets should not be underestimated
John Mann and Nusrat Ghani
Pope would permit Festing to be re-elected as Order of Malta leader
Fra' Matthew Festing said if the Order of Malta wanted him to return, he would have to consider it
Dan Hitchens
Handwritten speech delivered by Pope before 2013 conclave is released
The then Cardinal Bergoglio urged cardinals to elect a Pope who would go to the peripheries
Associated Press
God's voice is heard through humility, Franciscan tells Pope at retreat
Pope Francis and ten members of the curia are into the fourth day of their Lenten retreat
Catholic News Service
The Church is now in a full-blown civil war over doctrine
Cardinal Coccopalmerio's book is only the latest example of Catholic teaching being questioned
Dan Hitchens
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
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