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✣ 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
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
Our ‘Nonno’ never forgot his roots
my grandfather, charles forte, came with his parents to scotland from italy as a child at a time when that was more unusual. he hailed from ...
Alex Polizzi
Science and faith: Is Ian Brady in hell?
in may this year an unrepentant ian brady, the moors murderer, died. terry kilbride, the brother of a victim, hoped that brady would “rot in...
Quentin de la Bedoyere
Brexit’s Catholic Mr Fixit
two days before britain voted to leave the european union, shanker singham wrote an article arguing in favour of remain. yet today he is bus...
Luke Coppen
Mary Kenny: How Charlie Gard united the world
one of the most extraordinary aspects of the charlie gard story is the way in which it has attracted global attention, and such widespread s...
Mary Kenny
Comments of the week
on married priests, we should look east sir – i have read with interest fr ray blake’s blog post (see news focus, page 16) about lonely and ...
The Catholic Herald
A bird was never just a bird to David Jones
‘god save thee, ancient mariner! from the fiends, that plague thee thus!— why look’st thou so?’—with my cross-bow i shot the albatross. what...
Laura Freeman
Vice on both sides of the thin blue line
the force by don winslow, harper collins, £18.99 in the power of the dog and the cartel , don winslow told the story of america’s war on dru...
Will Gore
Pastor Iuventus
does god play hide-and-seek? i had forgotten how loud the sound of a wood pigeon can be, but waking to its insistent cooing is what reminds ...
Pastor Iuventus
Pictures of the week
1 new swedish cardinal anders arborelius visits christ the king, bramley, in the diocese of leeds, for his friend fr paul redmond’s ruby ann...
The Catholic Herald
Bishops' engagements
cardinal nichols (westminster) sun: celebration of mass for the golden jubilee of the consecration of st paul’s church, harefield, ub9 6dg, ...
The Catholic Herald
Why is the Equality and Human Rights Commission playing down the role of disabled people?
Disabled people have much to give to society. So why has the EHRC abolished its Disability Commissioner?
Francis Davis
Malta to legalise gay marriage over Catholic church protests
'Marriage, whatever the law says, remains an eternal union exclusive to a man and a woman,' Archbishop Scicluna protested
Associated Press
Melinda Gates says she is 'optimistic' Pope Francis will change teaching on contraception
Gates, who is from a Catholic family, describes contraception as 'one of the greatest anti-poverty innovations the world has ever known'
Staff Reporter
Pro-lifers alarmed at call to use abortion as birth control
The British Pregnancy Advisory Service found that 51.2 per cent of 60,592 women who went for abortions at its clinics had been using at least one form of contraception
Staff Reporter
The best way to help migrants is to make their countries fit places for human flourishing
A new book on the notorious Calais 'Jungle' reminds us that behind the statistics are ordinary people longing for a decent life
Francis Phillips
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