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Dubia cardinals ask bishops to confront 'plague of the homosexual agenda'
catholic bishops around the world need to combat the homosexual agenda in the church, two cardinals said in an open letter addressed to the ...
Catholic News Agency
Survivors from Africa, Asia at Vatican to call for 'zero tolerance' of abuse cover-up
while studying at an african minor seminary at the age of 14, benjamin kitobo says he was abused by a belgian priest, who had been sent to a...
Courtney Grogan/CNA
Dutch cathedral may be sold due to poor attendance
st catherine’s cathedral in utrecht is expected to be closed and sold due to an ongoing decrease in attendance, as the aging building has be...
Catholic News Agency
Morning Catholic must-reads: 21/02/19
pope francis has approved the jesuits’ four priorities for the next decade . the cause of fr augustus tolton, the first african-american pri...
Luke Coppen
Cologne's cardinal warns against inventing 'a new Church'
noting the challenges facing the church in germany, cardinal rainer maria woelki of cologne told ewtn last week that amid dispute over the c...
Catholic News Agency
Morning Catholic must-reads: 19/02/19
pope francis is surrounded by people with a “courtier mentality” , cardinal gerhard müller has told der spiegel. a french judge has refused ...
Luke Coppen
How the apostles read the Jewish scriptures
when christians were jews by paula fredriksen yale, 250pp, £19.99/$27.50 how did a group of 1st-century jews, the followers of a recently cr...
Stav Sherez
It's satisfying enough, but true Agatha Christie fans should avoid The ABC Murders
despite the evident distaste of possibly the most celebrated mystery novelists of the past 80 years (pd james and georges simenon), there ca...
Carl Curtis
Mesmerising and eloquent: The Barbican's Seven Last Words of Christ reviewed
composers have always been wary of writing operas on the life of christ; and passion narratives aside, they haven’t exactly rushed to make i...
Michael White
Letters & emails
completing the circle of the reformation sir – the most recurrent themes in your columns are those questions regarding married priests, celi...
The Catholic Herald
Gold leaf on your camel burger: a visit to the UAE
one of the nice things about pope francis is that he’s not at his best with vips; in their company, he takes on a lugubrious look. with ordi...
Melanie McDonagh
Why leading a virtuous life is the key to happiness
every theology enthusiast – i would never use the term dork – has, at some point, identified himself with one of two factions: t...
Michael Warren Davis
Why Anglo-Catholicism appeals to millennials
"twentysomethings are flocking to anglo-catholic services" shouted a headline in the times above an article featuring my church, st bartholo...
Marcus Walker
The Pope's Abu Dhabi trip has vindicated Benedict XVI's Regensburg lecture
pope francis made history this week when he became the first catholic pontiff to visit the united arab emirates – which is to say, the arabi...
Sohrab Ahmari
Ken Russell's 'The Devils' is badly misunderstood
bill donohue, president of the catholic league, recently condemned the new york times for using a picture of “a nun in habit standing behind...
Deal Hudson
'So many people are not listening': an interview with Cardinal Brenes
in granada, a city in western nicaragua, vast colonial houses with peeling pastel façades stand in the searing sun. horses and carts bounce ...
Rachel Collingwood
An odd combination: 'Bill Viola/Michelangelo: Life, Death, Rebirth' reviewed
most of the archers in michelangelo’s archers shooting at a herm (c 1530) have forgotten their bows. they stretch as if to draw their string...
Daisy Dunn
Mariss Jansons ranks at the very top of the world league of conductors
foreign orchestras fly into london frequently enough for them to pass unnoticed. but when the bavarian radio symphony came to the barbican l...
Michael White
The 'God debate' has moved on from Dawkins
it keeps me seeking by andrew briggs, andrew steane and hans halvorson, oup, 368pp, £19.99/$30 this work illustrates rather nicely the law o...
Alister McGrath
Spiritual books: how to sanctify your daily life
first published in 1946, when the future cardinal stefan wyszyński was bishop of lublin, sanctify your daily life (ewtn/gracewing, 192pp, £1...
Francis Phillips
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