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Trump nominates Callista Gingrich US ambassador to the Holy See
The announcement comes as Pope Francis prepares to receive President Trump next week
Catholic News Service
No research can ever justify destroying human embryos, Pope Francis says
Research that destroys embryos is part of a 'throwaway culture', the Pontiff said
Catholic News Service
Callista Gingrich suits the job of Vatican ambassador. But can Newt stay out of the spotlight?
Callista Gingrich will have a delicate task. Her indefatigable husband could complicate things
Stephen White
News in brief
ghana bishops praise new mining policy the bishops’ conference of ghana has praised the government’s crackdown on illegal mining. hundreds o...
Staff Reporter
Melanie McDonagh: The heavy burden of forgiveness
the death of the moors murderer ian brady hasn’t brought out the best in us, has it? “monster of the moors is dead” is the daily mail headli...
Melanie McDonagh
Does Fido have a soul? That’s the wrong question
informed catholics are likely to dismiss the animal rights protesters who stormed a church in italy earlier this year, demanding that the ch...
Carmody Grey
Why modern Christians need cathedrals
arriving in durham late one march afternoon, i realised that if i was quick i could just make evensong at the cathedral. it was well worth t...
Niall Gooch
Film: Redgrave’s secret scripture has little to reveal
jim sheridan’s handsome yet flimsy melodrama the secret scripture ( ★★ , cert 12a, 109 mins) turns out to be a tale of two actresses, one gr...
Mike McCahill
Music: Dresden culture palace rises from the ashes
given how little money there is these days to keep serious music up and running, it’s remarkable that wherever you go in the world somebody’...
Michael White
Beyond the Fatima conspiracy theories
fatima mysteries by grzegorz gorny and janusz rosikon, ignatius, £27 fatima mysteries: mary’s message to the modern age is a large and heavy...
Donal Anthony Foley
Omnium Gatherum
my favourite images of the ascension of the lord, celebrated on thursday for at least 16 centuries – thursday, not sunday – are those charmi...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
Word this week
sixth sunday of easter acts 8:5-8; 1 pet 3:15-18; jn 14:15-21 (year a) ‘philip went to a samaritan town and proclaimed the christ to them. t...
Bishop David McGough
Prize crossword 0491
cryptic across 5 realities of the twelve tribes? (9) 8 gravity, in the main, falls over a long time (4) 9 revelationary location? take a cha...
Alun Evans
From storybooks to spirituality
my first love was literature – novels and poetry. as a child, i loved storybooks, mysteries and adventures. in grade school, i was made to m...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
Who is the real Vladimir Putin? A new book offers interesting answers
Diplomacy can disguise the fact that human beings are at the centre of international politics, however powerful their public status
Francis Phillips
Fr John Bollan: How my students caused a power cut in Rome
i’m just back from a few days in rome with 39 pupils from st columba’s high school in gourock, where i’m currently chaplain. anyone who’s be...
Mark Greaves
Fatima at 100: Signs from heaven
sunday, may 13, 1917 would prove to be an auspicious day, both for the catholic church and for the whole tumultuous course of the 20th centu...
Stephen Bullivant
Colin Brazier: How my wife became an eco-warrior
back in brussels. not to present brexit news, but to speak to meps at the european parliament. they want to hear about sky tv’s campaign aga...
Colin Brazier
Comments of the week
pius xii’s canonisation isn’t guaranteed sir – regarding the possible canonisation of pope pius xii, sir anthony holland (letter, may 5) say...
The Catholic Herald
A theology lesson for Renaissance princes
occasionally artists are also theologians, giving visual form to ideas about god. such was raphael, called to fresco pope julius ii’s apartm...
Mgr Timothy Verdon
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