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Contraception hasn't reduced demand for abortion
it was announced last week that terminations of pregnancy in the united kingdom had reached the highest number ever. more than 205,000 abort...
Mary Kenny
Dear Fr Rutler: I can't stand my priest. Should I go parish-shopping?
dear father rutler, my wife is from poland, and with all the nuttiness in america today, i’m more and more inclined to accede to her request...
Fr George Rutler
How much free will do we really have?
i like to think of myself as a reasonably intelligent person. after all, i have had a long life, following a jesuit education, being married...
Quentin de la Bedoyere
World news: from Ecuador to Eritrea
paris first mass in notre-dame since fire notre-dame cathedral has seen its first mass since the fire which devastated the roof. archbishop ...
Staff writers
A political conversion remarkably free from bitterness
i have just read journalist melanie phillips’ autobiography, guardian angel: my journey from leftism to sanity , published by bombardier boo...
Francis Phillips
In this new battle for parents' rights, the Catholic position is clear
for several months, parents in birmingham have been gathering on the street. they are campaigning against what they see as inapp...
David Paton
Rachel Held Evans, 1981-2019
no community should botch its deaths. mircea eliade wrote those words and they’re a warning: if we do not properly celebrate the life of som...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
Heretic of the week: Herbert W Armstrong
herbert w armstrong (1892-1986) was an american prophet, in the mould of joseph smith and mary baker eddy – though his doctrines were far re...
Charles Coulombe
The profound kindness of John Buchan
beyond the thirty-nine steps by ursula buchan, bloomsbury, 492pp, £25/$28 john buchan (1875-1940) has proved more enduring than most of his ...
David Platzer
Faith is the golden thread running through Stockhausen's work
musical – artistic – modernism is a godless pursuit. or so the maxim runs – especially among those discomfited by dissonance, while modern c...
Peter Quantrill
Longing for lost worlds won't convert America
when young radicals gathered in the streets of paris in may 1968, régis debray was nowhere to be seen. as his friends playacted at revolutio...
Matthew Schmitz
Franco's tomb is still a headache for the Church
spain’s catholic church has promised to respect a supreme court judgment barring the exhumation of general francisco franco from his mausole...
Jonathan Luxmoore
Meanwhile: The Catholic faith of the queen of Creole cooking
tributes have poured in for leah chase, a new orleans chef who played a leading role in the civil rights movement, and who died last week. a...
Staff Reporter
US and English bishops welcome Vatican document on gender ideology
catholic bishops in the us, england and wales welcomed the vatican's statement that gender ideology is opposed to faith and reason, and that...
Elizabeth Bachmann
Archbishop Chaput: Abortion a perverse 'sacrament' for Democratic Party leaders
joe biden, the former senator and vice president and now a democratic presidential hopeful, once represented a more moderate position on abo...
Catholic News Agency
Vatican document condemns gender theory as 'cultural and ideological revolution'
a vatican department has issued a sweeping denunciation of so-called gender theory, and affirmed the principles of human dignity, difference...
Catholic News Agency
Pope says he wants to visit Iraq in 2020
announcing his desire to visit iraq in 2020, pope francis called for a peaceful resolution to crises in the middle east. he also warned that...
Carol Glatz
Hungary's history helps explain the current problems in the West
i was chatting to my sister not long ago on the topic of brexit and the eu (what else is there to talk about these days?) and pointed out th...
Francis Phillips
Heretic of the week: Joanna Southcott
joanna southcott (1750-1814) was born in devon to a small farming family. she went into service at a gentleman’s house in exeter and worked ...
Charles Coulombe
How to… Celebrate Ordinary Time
the church is about to enter 34 weeks of “ordinary time”. but “ordinary” doesn’t have to mean boring or run-of-the-mill. catholics can, if t...
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