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Diary: Hunting for headless martyrs in Paris
my first visit to paris, when i was 17, was with my school, st clare’s hall. our group included a dozen french students and four very rowdy ...
Cristina Odone
Meanwhile: Where Coco learned to concentrate
the 15-year-old tennis player coco gauff captivated wimbledon – and the world – with a brilliant debut performance which took her to the fou...
Staff writers
Archbishop Fisher: what paralysis taught me about euthanasia
before you say “he would say that, he’s a bishop,” please hear me out. when it comes to calls for euthanasia, i get it, i really do. a few y...
Archbishop Anthony Fisher
The booming monasteries that are running out of cells
among the most startling aspects of the post-vatican ii era of the catholic church has been the dramatic decline of vocations to the religio...
Jim Graves
Diary: The Vatican is surprisingly good at cricket
i have spent the past several days in rome at the head of a rather wonderful cricket team, the stonyhurst gentlemen’s xi. the team is compri...
Stephen Withnell
Why on earth did Eritrea shut down Catholic health clinics?
the eritrean government has seized and shut down all the country’s catholic-run health centres in apparent retaliation for eritrea’s bishops...
James Jeffrey
How do abortifacients affect mental health? We still don't know
women should be no more reluctant to terminate a pregnancy than they should be to have their wisdom teeth removed. that is the conclusion on...
Michael Warren Davis
'I ask our teachers to be very vigilant': Bishop Davies on sex education
damian hinds, the education secretary, last week finally offered some clarity about the government’s relationships and sex education guidanc...
Simon Caldwell
World news: from Peoria to Paris
indianapolis schools divided after archbishop marriage order an archdiocese has been riven by disputes over church teaching, after two schoo...
Staff writers
How to avoid bitterness
as christians, we are asked to imitate christ. how do we do this? one way is to imitate jesus’s action of holding, carrying, purifying and t...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
Heretic of the week: René Guénon
rené guénon (1886-1951) was a fallen-away catholic and convert to islam who is seen as father of the “traditionalist” school – which in this...
Charles Coulombe
Peter and Paul couldn't have been more different
ss peter and paul 1 kgs 19:16b, 19-21; ps 16; gal 5:1, 13-18; lk 9:51-62 (year c) the preface for the solemnity of saints peter and paul hon...
Bishop David McGough
The week forced abortion nearly arrived in Britain
in a fast-moving story over the past few days, a baby’s life has hung in the balance, weighed on the scales of justice. less than a week ago...
David Alton
Street banners, giant candles and the odd cigarette: Corpus Christi in Seville
the crowds surged through the streets of seville, and my second-youngest son and i moved with them. they moved steadily, stopping not only f...
Amy Welborn
Vocations start young – and other lessons from a major study
if we’re to resolve the vocations crisis in the united states, it might be helpful to determine who’s seeking ordination already. a new stud...
Michael Warren Davis
Why Augustus Tolton should be America's next patron saint
the church in the united states is suffering. over the past year, american catholics have watched stories unfold on sex abuse, cover-ups, th...
Aaron Benavides
The seminary that saved British Catholicism
as one drives through northern france, it is easy to ignore the signs to douai. it has no cathedral to match amiens, no world-famous gastron...
Fr Nicholas Schofield
Meanwhile: 100-year-old priest concelebrates with his four sons
fr probo vaccarini celebrated his 100th birthday earlier this month – and marked the occasion by concelebrating mass with his four sons, who...
Staff writers
Ecumenical relations
the question of intercommunion within our churches today is a big one, an important one and a painful one. i’m old enough to remember anothe...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
Heretic of the week: Arthur Conan Doyle
sir arthur conan doyle (1859-1930) was a physician and writer, renowned for creating the immortal detective sherlock holmes. less well known...
Charles Coulombe
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