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Religion devoid of reason is a very dangerous thing
A new poll suggests up to a third of France’s Muslims reject the legitimacy of the country’s secular law
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
Pope meets religious leaders and refugees at Assisi peace day
The Pope will address the gathering in Assisi and lead prayers for victims of war
Associated Press
Mercy must be Vatican diplomats' secret code, Pope says
Francis spent much of Saturday with 106 archbishops who represent him and the Vatican in countries around the world
Catholic News Service
How to restore the meaning of funeral Masses - and save some money
The 'funeral without the funeral' could refocus our attention on the Eucharistic sacrifice. It's a lot cheaper, too
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
'Now, more than ever, we need peace in the world,' says Pope ahead of Assisi visit
Francis will pray for peace with leaders of other religions in the Italian town on Tuesday
Associated Press
Pope orders canon law changes to bring Latin and Eastern practices closer
The changes, brought in after 15 years of study, are to help Eastern Christians living in Latin-majority lands
Cindy Wooden
New motu proprio on harmonizing codes of canon law: full English translation
The first English translation of the Pope's announcement on harmonising Eastern and Latin canon law. Translated by Fr James Bradley and Ed Condon
Pope Francis
Christians can't back out of modern politics
Book review: retreat, or surrender, is the worst possible response to a secular world
Jonathan Wright
The big story of the past seven days
✣ leaked letter restarts ‘amoris wars’ what happened? the debate over amoris laetitia has reopened after a letter written by pope fra...
Staff writers
Francis is better at decisions, says Benedict
benedict xvi has said that, although he does not see himself “as a failure”, governance was not his “forte” as pope. in a book-length interv...
Staff writers
Caroline Wyatt: The no-nonsense saint who cared for me
the sky was an immaculate blue, and a strong september sun warmed the pilgrims squeezing into st peter’s square, burnishing the droplets fro...
Caroline Wyatt
The Black Dog and the birds
the other day, i heard a sound that was new to me in nature. i was out on an island in the thames estuary. as evening drew on, i was watchin...
John Wilkins
Comments of the Week
leaving the eu is the catholic thing to do sir – fr ashley beck (letter, september 9) remarks on the “negative” approach of catholic leave a...
The Catholic Herald
Spiritual Books
docat , ignatius press, £6.99 this book, which is packed with photographs, excerpts from papal encyclicals and quotations from the saints an...
Francis Phillips
Christians can't back out of modern politics
god in public by tom wright, spck, £9.99 tom wright is infuriated by attempts to exclude faith from political discourse. god is often treate...
Jonathan Wright
Omnium Gatherum
the feast of the bishop-martyr st januarius (d c305), known in italian as san gennaro, is celebrated this week. he is the patron saint of na...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
Lectio Divina
luke 16:1-13 1 jesus said to his disciples, “there was once a rich man who had a servant who managed his property. the rich man was told tha...
Mgr Anthony Abela
September 18 to September 24
cardinal nichols (westminster) sun:ethnic chaplaincies’ mass, westminster cathedral, westminster, london, sw1p, 5.30pm. wed: meeting with bi...
The Catholic Herald
Andrew M Brown: Greek Orthodoxy is gorgeous – and flawed
visiting greece for the first time – as i recently did on holiday – i found myself drawn to the seductive glamour of orthodoxy. the greeks i...
Andrew M Brown
Should we welcome the expansion of Catholic schools? Not if it makes them less Catholic
The more Catholic schools we have, the more we will be tempted to dilute our Catholic identity
Michael Merrick
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