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Religious education report is an ‘attack’ on Catholic schools

The Bishop of Leeds said the report was 'unacceptable'

Staff Reporter

Home Office finally grants visa to Iraqi nun after rejecting her twice

Sister Ban Madleen, who fled Islamic State in 2014, was applying to visit her family

Staff Reporter

Learn from tradition, Pope tells young people

'It is from your roots that you will get the strength to continue,' Pope Francis said

Junno Arocho Esteves

Change teaching on contraception, British minister tells Church

Penny Mordaunt spoke after meeting the President of the Pontifical Academy for Life

Nick Hallett

US Association of Consecrated Virgins condemns ‘shocking’ new rules

The document says it is 'not essential' that a woman should have 'kept her body in perfect continence'

Staff Reporter

Catholics need to be courageous in showing the truth of our faith

Cardinal Nichols asks whether our schools live up to John Henry Newman's ideals

Francis Phillips

After voting for abortion, why is Ireland still snapping up tickets for Pope Francis?

The rush to buy tickets for Pope Francis’s visit has surprised many observers

David Quinn

The trouble with Catholic politicians

Politicians are ever more confident in declaring their Catholicism. But when it comes to the crunch, they are not exactly St Thomas More

Dan Hitchens

Why Trump picked Kavanaugh over ‘folk hero’ Amy Coney Barrett

There is a palpable sense of disappointment among conservative Christians, but are they right to be downbeat?

Michael Warren Davis

Why is Civiltà Cattolica attacking American Christians? I have a theory

If the essayists are allowed to engage in corny psychoanalysis, then permit me to do the same

Tim Stanley

Vice on both sides of the thin blue line

An uncompromising new novel about corruption speaks loudly to a tense and divided America

Will Gore

American Catholicism is being poisoned by factionalism

Bad faith between liberals and conservatives is causing debate to devolve into partisan sniping

Michael Warren Davis

Can anything stop Catholic infighting?

Liturgical squabbles, doctrinal rows, vicious public spats: the Church is once again gripped by a 1970s-style factionalism

Damian Thompson

Death of the ‘airport bishop’

when the new archbishop of milan stood up to give his first speech to his new diocese last friday he wore a crumpled jacket over a faded cle...

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The best of the blogosphere

✣ highlights from the week online the giant who spoke for st john paul ii joaquin navarro-valls, st john paul ii’s spokesman for many years,...

Staff writers

Ordinations in Scotland reach 20-year high

the scottish church has seen a surge in ordinations, with 12 priests ordained this year, the largest number in two decades. bishop john keen...

Staff writers

In brief

priest stabbed to death in mexico city suburb a 71-year-old priest was murdered in his home during a robbery in a suburb of mexico city last...

Staff writers

Does anyone care for our priests?

earlier this month it was reported that eight priests in ireland had committed suicide in the past 10 years. the association of catholic pri...

Nick Hallett

The poisoning of American Catholicism

in february 2016, pope francis set off a media firestorm when he took an unprecedented shot at then presidential candidate donald trump. “a ...

Michael Warren Davis

Can anything stop Catholic infighting?

my first parish priest was a little old man with pebble spectacles who looked like a gorgeously coloured beetle as he bent over the altar in...

Damian Thompson

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