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The poet who saw the sacramental in everyday life

Gerard Manley Hopkins’s conversion did not lead him to write conventional religious verse

Francis Phillips

Even amid attempts at revolution, Rome remains the same

Visiting the Eternal City feels like a kind of homecoming

Matthew Schmitz

Mass readings

ordinary form divine office week iv sunday, november 11: the 32nd sunday of the year 1 kgs 17:10-16; ps 146; heb 9:24-28; mk 12:38-44 monday...

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Omnium Gatherum

the terrible first world war ended at 11am on the 11th day of the 11th month, 1918. this sunday marks the 100th anniversary of armistice day...

Fr John Zuhlsdorf

What’s the problem with medieval mysticism?

rebekah lamb looks back to the days when the virgin mary would chastise bishops mary and the art of prayer by rachel fulton brown, columbia,...

Rebekah Lamb

In Rome, tradition is doing good business

when i return to rome, i feel a foolish mixture of excitement and pride, as though the city belongs to me. or rather, as though i belong to ...

Matthew Schmitz

Fr Tom Uzhunnalil: 'I have witnessed the power of prayer'

Fr Tom was kidnapped in March 2016 during an attack on a Missionaries of Charity home in Yemen

Catholic News Agency

Pope Francis mourns victims of attack on Coptic Christians in Egypt

Islamists ambushed a bus carrying Coptic Christian pilgrims, killing seven and leaving 19 injured

Courtney Grogan/CNA

Pope Francis mourns victims of attack on Coptic Christians in Egypt

Islamists ambushed a bus carrying Coptic Christian pilgrims, killing seven and leaving 19 injured

Courtney Grogan/CNA

For All Souls' Day, Pope Francis prays in cemetery for unborn children

The Pope celebrated Mass at the Laurentino Cemetery, also known as the 'Garden of Angels'

Courtney Grogan/CNA

'God has become my light' A Chinese teen’s conversion story

'It is true. It is not only a better theology. It is the true theology'

Courtney Grogan/CNA

Stay Catholic to keep Poland independent, bishops say at centenary

Poland's independence will be under threat if Poles lose their faith, the country's bishops warned

Jonathan Luxmoore

How to gain a plenary indulgence for the souls in purgatory

You can gain an indulgence each day from 1 to 8 November

Staff Reporter

Pope on All Saints' Day: Live for heaven, not the world

'Holiness or nothing' is the choice Christians face, Pope Francis said

Hannah Brockhaus/CNA

How Agatha Christie helped to save the Latin Mass

An unlikely intervention by England’s cultural luminaries rescued the Tridentine Mass from threatened extinction

Joseph Shaw

Brave new Church: can Catholicism be decentralised?

The youth synod’s final report resoundingly endorses ‘synodality’. This could be a positive step – once bishops have worked out what it means

Fr Mark Drew

Ukraine: Vocations nation

in one of europe’s poorest countries, one thing is still doing well: christianity arguably no european country is in a worse economic and po...

Filip Mazurczak

How to decentralise a Church

since his election in 2013, pope francis has often expressed the desire for a more “synodal” style of church life, and commentators on catho...

Fr Mark Drew

Letters & emails

what we can learn from 'slum priests' sir – your inspiring and insightful cover story, “a beautiful answer for ugly times” (october 26), rig...

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After cultural Catholicism

when i think about the future of the church in america, i like to close my eyes. when i do, i see marian processions, like the ones held by ...

Brandon McGinley

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