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Omnium Gatherum

the feast of the assumption of the blessed virgin is celebrated this coming week. from the earliest years, holy church believed that at the ...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf

Piers Paul Read: Channel 4’s post-Christian culture

last monday, flicking through the channels on my television in search of bbc two’s excellent programme on the battle of the somme, i found m...
Piers Paul Read

Pictures of the Week

1 bishop séamus cunningham of hexham and newcastle has ordained ordinariate member ian westby to the diaconate in the presence of mgr keith ...
The Catholic Herald

‘Why on earth didn’t they ask us?’ The churches where Pokémon Go is a nuisance

A backlash has begun – but it's the manufacturers, not the players, who are being blamed
Dan Hitchens

Philippines Church 'powerless' to stop extrajudicial killings, says official

'The Church cannot do anything now. Only those who started these bloodbaths can stop it'
Catholic News Service

When is Mother Teresa’s canonisation?

All you need to know about Mother Teresa's canonisation at the Vatican in September
Staff Reporter

'Mercy received must be mercy shared', Pope tells general audience

The Pontiff told the faithful that Christians must demonstrate to the world how to display acts of mercy towards others
Catholic News Service

Pope makes impromptu visit to convents near Rome

Pope Francis surprised nuns with the spontaneous visit to two convents north of Rome
Catholic News Service

Preaching the Gospel should be our priority - not bickering about deaconesses

The Church needs a better response to the Sunni-Shia war and and global poverty
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith

Westminster Cathedral to be floodlit in red to highlight plight of persecuted Middle East Christians

'If every parish in the country did the same it might at last wake up our political classes to the scale of the suffering,' Aid to the Church in Need has said
Staff Reporter