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cryptic across 1 announce fourth team’s to meet up near chester (7) 5 amorite king is, in retreat, honourable (5) 8 tom jones, classic novel...
Alun Evans
Pope Francis signs decree declaring Cardinal Van Thuan venerable
The Vietnamese archbishop was imprisoned for 13 years by the country's Communist authorities
Staff Reporter
Egypt is a beacon of hope and refuge, Pope Francis says
Egypt has the task of promoting a lasting peace that "rests not on the law of force but on the force of law", the Pope said
Junno Arocho Esteves
Christian Heritage Centre's new building blessed ahead of £4million renovation
Stonyhurst's Theodore House will provide a Study, Retreat and Leadership Centre
Staff Reporter
Pope Francis: God's tenderness can soften the hardest hearts
Those with hard hearts 'do not know that the Word became flesh', the pontiff said
Junno Arocho Esteves
The campaigning reporter who helped end the death penalty
Ludovic Kennedy helped change the law, but a new book reveals he had a significant blind spot
Francis Phillips
How inept leadership nearly destroyed the Knights of Malta - in 1798
The Knights were conquered by Napoleon and almost co-opted by the Tsar. But they survived
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
Pope Francis arrives in Egypt with message of peace
The Pope is visiting the country only weeks after twin suicide attacks on Coptic churches
Associated Press
News in brief
cardinal issues plea for peace to buddhists cardinal jean-louis tauran, head of the pontifical council for interreligious dialogue, has issu...
Staff Reporter
Television: Doctor Who? It’s more like EastEnders in space
doctor who is showing his age. his ratings are down; critics are bored. the problem is this. classic who, which ran from 1963 to 1989, reinv...
Tim Stanley
Music: The snazzy choir that lacks substance
st john’s, smith square used to be a venue with a questionable future, with occasionally fewer people in the audience than on the platform. ...
Michael White
A visitor’s guide to the Catholic theological zoo
catholic theology by tracey rowland, bloomsbury t&t clark, £14.99 catholic theology introduces the catholic tradition by focusing on “fo...
Carl E Olson
A Christian defends secular humanism
god created humanism: the christian basis of secular values by theo hobson, spck, £16.99 theo hobson wants to get a couple of things straigh...
Michael Duggan
Lectio Divina
third sunday of easter: luke 24:13-35 13 on that same day two of jesus’s followers were going to a village named emmaus, about seven miles f...
Mgr Anthony Abela
Pope Francis delivers surprise speech to TED conference
'No one is an island,' the Pope told the conference via a video message
Staff Reporter
Melissa Kite: Giving up the news for Lent
they say ignorance is bliss and i’m starting to believe it. for a journ-alist by trade, this is a humiliating volte face. i always thought k...
Melissa Kite
How the media marginalised Good Friday
i am writing this on maundy thursday. tomorrow is the most solemn day of the christian year, a day which commemorates appalling suffering an...
Ann Widdecombe
Science and faith: Five letters could change your life
clergy, accountants, teachers, business managers, social workers, parents – that’s just the beginning of a long list of vocations whose job ...
Quentin de la Bedoyere
Mary Kenny: Harry’s bravery and the rites of mourning
prince harry has been admirable in disclosing his feelings about the loss of his mother at the age of 12, and how that grief affected him 20...
Mary Kenny
Rome’s memories of Peter and Paul come to life
peter and paul are attracting new interest in rome. a multimedia museum, based on a decade of research, restoration work and recent archaeol...
Desmond O'Grady
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