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PODCAST: Is secularism losing its grip on France?

Find out what's really happening in the Catholic Church

Madeleine Teahan

The Mother of God is a model for times of 'incredible darkness'

Overwhelming sorrow and loss are what the saints mean by the 'mystery of the Cross'

Francis Phillips

Doctor ‘asked family to hold down struggling euthanasia victim’

The case will be examined by Dutch prosecutors to see if a crime has been committed

Simon Caldwell

Meeting the Christians of Aleppo

The number of faithful in Syria’s ancient city has fallen from 250,000 to 30,000. Now the war is over, how many of those can be persuaded to stay?

John Pontifex

Could your parish welcome a refugee family? Government appeals to churches for help

The Home Office has invited community groups to integrate refugees - but so far only two groups have joined the scheme

Dan Hitchens

Home Office to churches: help us settle refugees

the home office has appealed to churches to help integrate refugees, as it tries to meet a target of accepting 20,000 syrians. the full comm...

Staff writers

City honours Sister who saved Jews from Nazis

a religious sister who sheltered jews from the nazis has been honoured with a plaque in her home town of hull. sister agnes walsh, who died ...

Staff writers

Vice president: ‘Life is winning’ in the US

us vice president mike pence told tens of thousands of people gathered at the march for life rally last weekend that “life is winning in ame...

Staff writers

Secularism, the new ancien régime

françois fillon’s successful campaign for the nomination of the centre-right les républicains party for this year’s presidential election ha...

Samuel Gregg

Meeting the Christians of Aleppo

standing in the square and closing my eyes tight shut, i could just about imagine what it must have been like in days gone by: the place thr...

John Pontifex

Mary Kenny: Luther, warts and all

this is martin luther’s centenary year – he nailed his notorious 95 theses to the church door in wittenberg in 1517 – and the holy father ha...

Mary Kenny

Film: The jury’s out on civil rights legal drama

loving  (12a, 123 mins,  ★★★ ) is the true story of richard and mildred loving, the virginia couple whose legal case in the late 1...

Will Gore

The most extraordinary politician of modern times

margaret thatcher: a life and legacy by david cannadine, oup, £10.99 for those who haven’t the time to read charles moore’s official biograp...

Jack Carrigan

Lectio Divina

fifth sunday in ordinary time: mt 5:13-16 13 “you are like salt for the whole human race. but if salt loses its saltiness, there is no way t...

Mgr Anthony Abela

February 5 to February 11

cardinal nichols (westminster) mon: mass of thanksgiving for the apostolic nuncio, westminster cathedral, victoria street, london, sw1p, 5.3...

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Piers Paul Read: No one was loved by so many

one of the consolations that comes with being a catholic is being able to pray for the dead. through prayer one can remain with those one lo...

Piers Paul Read

First wooden church since the Great Fire is built in London

The design was inspired by traditional wooden churches in Belarus

David V Barrett

Secularism, the new ancien régime

Espousing Catholicism used to be fatal to a French politician’s chances. The arrival of François Fillon shows how much the nation has changed

Samuel Gregg

Christian hope is the belief in the reality of heaven, says Pope Francis

The Pope continued his series of messages on hope at this week's general audience

Carol Glatz

A key principle for the era of Francis and Trump: rulers are not above the law

The Church is not a democracy in the usual sense, but it is a society governed by law

Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith

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