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✣   highlights from the week online perón and the pope until pope francis’s election, the most famous argentine leader of modern times ...

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✣   pope sets up commission on deaconesses what happened? pope francis has set up a commission to study women deacons, and in particula...

Dublin seminarians will be sent abroad to study

archbishop diarmuid martin of dublin has said he will no longer send students to the national seminary at maynooth, amid allegations of inap...

Priest hero of Bloody Sunday dies aged 82

bishop emeritus edward daly of derry has died at the age of 82. bishop daly, who helped victims on bloody sunday in 1972, had been suff...

Charities scramble to help Mosul’s refugees

aid agencies, including catholic groups, are preparing to help an expected 1.5 million people flee mosul and surrounding villages. the milit...

Pope: ‘It’s terrible to teach that gender is a choice’

pope francis has said that what he calls gender theory – “that everyone can choose their own sex” – is “the exact opposite” of god’s creatio...

Pope sends message to refugee Olympians

in a personal message addressed to each of the 10 members of the new refugee olympic team, pope francis wished them success in their events ...

Poor to be at heart of Mother Teresa canonisation

the poor, the suffering and those who minister to them will be at the centre of celebrations leading up to the canonisation of blessed teres...

Women deacons: is the door open?

in may pope francis received an hour’s grilling from the international union of superiors general and was asked if he would establish “an of...

Madeleine Teahan

The strange fate of the ‘Easter People’

the creation of britain’s first syro-malabar eparchy. the spread of oratories inspired by the charism of st philip neri. the revival of fail...

Damian Thompson