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New DVD celebrates nurse

A new film about a former Leeds nurse, Sylvia Wright OBE, has been launched on DVD

Staff Reporter

Pope urges Pakistan to scrap blasphemy law

In state of the world address Pope Benedict says threats to religious freedom abound, even in the west

Cindy Wooden

Debate: Should married former Anglicans be allowed to become priests?

As an ordinariate looks set to be established by next week, the debate about married priests reopens

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Shakespeare did write Lear; what is more, he was a Catholic

Sir Derek Jacobi is wrong to think that Shakespeare could not have written his own plays; the greatest poet and dramatist of all times was an Englishman and a Catholic

Francis Phillips

Daily readings: January 9 - 15

Scripture readings in the Ordinary and Extraordinary Forms

Spiritual Life

Heythrop honours friends

College awards fellowships to Rev Roy Dorey, a Baptist, and Fr Kevin Fox SJ

Staff Reporter

School designs house tweed jacket

Two students design a tweed jacket for St Margaret's House, one of three girls' houses at Ampleforth College

Staff Reporter

Pope has lunch with hundreds of poor people at Vatican

Event marks 100th anniversary of Mother Teresa's birth

John Thavis

Full text of Benedict XVI's Urbi et Orbi message

Pope urges Chinese Catholics to take heart

Pope Benedict XVI

Christ's birth shows that the family is the nursery of salvation

The Feasts of the Nativity and Holy Family: Various readings

Bishop David McGough

Full text of Vatican's clarification on condoms

Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issues note entitled "On the trivialisation of sexuality"

Staff Reporter

Morning Catholic must-reads: 22/12/10

A daily guide to what's happening in the Catholic Church

Luke Coppen

European court rules that Ireland's abortion laws breach human rights

Court rules that Ireland had breached the rights of a woman with cancer who feared it would relapse if she became pregnant

Michael Kelly

Debate: Should children be told that Father Christmas isn't real?

Or does that lessen the wonder and magic of Christmas?

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Morning Catholic must-reads: 16/12/10

A daily guide to what's happening in the Catholic Church

Luke Coppen

Today's Catholic must-reads: 15/12/10

A daily guide to what's happening in the Catholic Church

Luke Coppen

Scottish author inspires young schoolchildren

Nicola Morgan, the award-winning Scottish children’s author, visits St Paul’s Catholic High School in Wythenshawe, Greater Manchester

Staff Reporter

Atheism has done little for women's dignity

That's the point Tony Blair should have made in his debate with Christopher Hitchens

Francis Phillips

The saint who was tormented by her conscience

St Maria di Rosa (December 15) founded the Handmaids of Charity and died at the age of 42, exhausted by her good works

Spiritual Life

Convent welcomes novices

Two novices join Nazareth House in Hammersmith after completing their time as postulants

Staff Reporter

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