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US bishop calls for McCarrick to be laicized

Bishop Michael Olson of Fort Worth, Texas called for his 'prompt reduction' to the laity

Doctors and families in UK can now remove life support without court permission

The Supreme Court ruled that food and drink can be removed from patients in a vegetative state if doctors and families are agree

Staff Reporter

Irish bishops reiterate that Catholic hospitals cannot perform abortions

The bishops handed a newly released code of ethics to the government earlier this month

Staff Reporter

Is a Catholic mother’s place really in the home?

Why shouldn't Catholic motherhood be a career in itself?

Joanna Bullivant

Will Catholic Religious Education survive?

A new report raises the prospect of state-appointed 'experts' deciding what Catholic schools should teach

Andy Lewis

Why, despite everything, I am still a Catholic

I joined for the faith, I discovered humanity

Tim Stanley

In brief

hobbs, new mexico virgin mary statue is ‘weeping olive oil’ a seven-foot bronze statue of the virgin mary appears to be weeping tears compos...

Staff writers

British schools: Can Catholic RE survive?

a new challenge to the bishops’ authority in the last few years a series of reports have called for major reforms to religious education. th...

Andy Lewis

Forty years of clashing with the Church

a famous leftist revolutionary, hoping to shore up electoral support, backs a strict pro-life law. a government minister genuflects in front...

Dan Hitchens

Catholic history isn’t just Thomas More

we are standing on london bridge and i am waving my arms about describing a saxon-viking battle that took place there about 60 years before ...

Joanna Bogle

When Catholics feel betrayed

why on earth do we stay in a church in which clerics commit sexual abuse? the easiest answer is realism. we tell ourselves that some sexual ...

Tim Stanley

Beyond the parish

throughout all the years of my involvement with the church, the parish has been taken as the crucial ecclesial institution. talk to almost a...

Bishop Robert Barron

Comments of the week

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Spiritual books: reviewed by Francis Phillips

cardinal vincent nichols, the archbishop of westminster, has written faith finding a voice (bloomsbury, 352pp, £12.99), a reflective book th...

Francis Phillips

Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith: What priests lose when they move parish

summer is a curious time in parishes. everything goes into suspended animation, and this year more so than ever, with the never-ending hot w...

Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith

Widespread dissent against Humanae Vitae put me off becoming a Catholic

Hostile reactions from Catholics against the encyclical suggest the Church has lost its mission

Malcolm Muggeridge

Contraception and IVF have damaged our society. Humanae Vitae offers a better answer

Both practices offered a technical fix for fertility - with grave consequences

David Albert Jones

Pro-life charity accuses council of 'censorship' after being kicked out of London show

Life charity accused Lambeth Council of 'aggressively shutting down' the voice of pro-lifers

Staff Reporter

Irish Catholic counselling agency agrees to help gay couples

The government had threatened to remove its funding

Staff Reporter

Patriarch Kirill is wrong to blame the Tsar's murder on 'foreign influence'

It was Lenin and the Soviets, not foreign agents, who killed the Russian Imperial Family

Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith

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