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The week's reporting from across the Catholic world — what happened, who said what, and what it means.

First license to create 'three-parent baby' is granted in Britain

The first three parent child could be born as early as the end of this year

Staff Reporter

What's inside this week's magazine?

Find out what's really happening in the Catholic Church

Staff Reporter

Why are feminists attacking cathedrals in the Pope's homeland?

If you are opposed to the Church, is setting fire to its buildings the best argument that you can advance against it?

Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith

The kids are all right

it is the fate of every generation to be defined by its extremes. thus young people today are derided as the “snowflake generation”: thin-sk...

The Catholic Herald

The big story of the past seven days

✣  francis enters his fifth year as pope what happened? monday marked the fourth-year anniversary of pope francis’s election as the 266...

Staff writers

Secularists face long-term decline, claims study

secularism will decline worldwide while religion grows, according to a new study in the journal evolutionary psychological science. the find...

Staff writers

In brief

four sisters killed in crash in ethiopia four daughters of st anne sisters, including the provincial superior, were killed last week when th...

Staff writers

Splitting hairs over SS-GB

is there a surer sign that a middle-aged man has morphed into a fogey than the sight of him shouting at the television? sunday evening is wh...

Colin Brazier

Television: In Broadchurch no one looks innocent

there’s quite a lot wrong with broadchurch (itv, mondays 9pm), the whodunnit set in a village of the damned on the english coast. it’s a vil...

Tim Stanley

Piers Paul Read: The school of gender neutrality

it is an irony that a school named after st paul should have an ethos that so radically contradicts the apostle’s views on the role of women...

Piers Paul Read

Cover

The Catholic Herald

Catholic politicians who support abortion and assisted suicide are 'confusing' Catholics, say New Mexico bishops

Catholic lawmakers in New Mexico have said that their faith informs their support for abortion

Catholic News Service

Morning Catholic must-reads: 16/03/17

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

Luke Coppen

The treatment of independent midwives is shameful

Independent midwives in Britain were effectively banned earlier this year when their insurance was deemed inadequate

Joseph Shaw

Pope warns of 'very grave sin' when jobs are cut unjustly

At his general audience, Francis also greeted a small group of Chinese pilgrims

Associated Press

South Korean Catholics call for unity after impeachment of president

The head of the country's bishops' conference has called for the country to be 'rebuilt through harmony'

Catholic News Service

Morning Catholic must-reads: 15/03/17

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

Luke Coppen

Attacks show Venezuelan government relations with Catholics deteriorating

A pro-government collective crashed Sunday Mass at a church in Caracas and shouted insults at the priest

Catholic News Service

Pope Francis victim of fake news after reports claim he changed Ten Commandments

The story claimed Francis made the announcement in Ecuador in 2015

Associated Press

Morning Catholic must-reads: 14/03/17

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

Luke Coppen

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