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The Benedict XVI speech that everyone missed

'The crisis of the Church is at its core a crisis of the clergy'

Fr Raymond de Souza

The theologian who understood the true meaning of love

Dietrich von Hildebrand wrote a passionate defence of Humanae Vitae

Francis Phillips

Morning Catholic must-reads: 21/09/18

A daily guide to what's happening in the Catholic Church

Luke Coppen

Nuns don't belong in horror movies

Screenwriters still resort to cliché when tackling the supernatural

Sister Janet Fearns

The best of the web

✣ highlights from the week online an inspirational presence at mass at the catholic thing, michael pakaluk said he likes to attend an early ...

Staff writers

Sri Lanka: A cardinal’s dilemma

as the nation revives the death penalty, cardinal ranjith must walk a fine line in july the sri lankan president, maithripala sirisena, anno...

Melani Manel Perera

Diary: by Peter Hitchens

the more i write about britain’s moral, educational and cultural decline, the more i run up against that decline in action. for the past few...

Peter Hitchens

Fr Raymond J de Souza: Benedict is silent – but he still speaks

pope emeritus benedict xvi gave his final september speech last week in rome. benedict didn’t give the speech himself. his private secretary...

Fr Raymond de Souza

A recipe for relationship failure

once you’ve seen channel 4’s naked attraction , you can’t unsee it. a contestant is presented with six boxes containing six naked people. th...

Tim Stanley

Arts essay: A masterpiece for a Church mired in scandal

tintoretto helps us fix our eyes on what truly matters, says bishop robert barron i was in washington dc last week for meetings of the unite...

Bishop Robert Barron

Music: Songs of Darkness light up Last Night

the last night of the proms is always a bizarre event. the best-known concert in the world, it mixes melancholia with craziness as a finale ...

Michael White

Horror films know nothing about nuns

sister janet fearns says screenwriters have a lot to learn about the supernatural one moonlit night in autumn 1976, i was wearing the full-l...

Sister Janet Fearns

A double dose of doppelgängers

mark lawson on this month’s best crime fiction fittingly, there are two new thrillers about doppelgängers, although, proving the adaptabilit...

Mark Lawson

Word this week

the 25th sunday of the year wis 2:12 & 17-20; jas 3:16-4:3; mk 9:30-37 (year b) “where do these wars and battles between yourselves firs...

Bishop David McGough

Prize crossword 0560

cryptic across 7 nabal’s home with mother, not off (4) 8 something diabolical, a factor unknown in famous theatre’s closing down (8) 9 befor...

Alun Evans

Melanie McDonagh: Cardinal Wolsey’s better angels

commonly, a book or a play about a historical character follows on from what historians have had to say about him. think of the musical hami...

Melanie McDonagh

Monks of Tibhirine to be beatified in Algeria in December

Cardinal Becciu will preside over the ceremony of the feast of the Immaculate Conception

Staff Reporter

A comedy obsessed with divine justice

Dante thought politicians had ruined Italy. His poem takes revenge

Ian Thomson

Rome’s buried battle

archaeologists have discovered remarkable physical evidence of constantine’s defining victory at the milvian bridge a few years ago, an open...

Desmond O'Grady

Council of confusion

australian catholics are preparing for a ‘plenary council’. but the church is in danger of encouraging false expectations jump on to any dio...

Natasha Marsh

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