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Pope: ‘Do not equate Islam with violence’

speaking to journalists on his return flight from kraków on sunday, pope francis said that violence exists in all religions including cathol...

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✣   highlights from the week online crisis for the jesuits despite reports that the jesuit pope has sparked a growth in jesuit membersh...

The big story of the past seven days

✣   islam isn’t a violent religion, says pope after priest’s murder what happened? speaking to journalists on his return flight from wo...

Stuart Reid: Catholicism’s boozy halo

more wine is drunk per head in the vatican than in any other place on earth, according to the california wine institute, which keeps an unfo...

Did Fr Hamel die a martyr’s death?

if we know fr jacques hamel is a martyr, we should be praying to him. if we don’t, then we should be praying for him. these are the very pra...

The saints’ answer to terrorism

the killing on july 26 of fr jacques hamel, as he said mass in normandy, brings sharply to mind the priests the church has lost to murder ac...

Defending the common good

paris. san bernardino. brussels. nice. istanbul. rouen. the pace of terrorist attacks linked to isis has accelerated over the past two years...

Music: A life-changing triumph in Yorkshire

when ts eliot drew together his sequence of reflections on humanity and time under the title four quartets, it was with reason. structurally...

Television: Half-man, half-horse and the black dog

bojack horseman (netflix) is such an unusual show that it’s hard to know how to recommend it without sounding as if i’ve taken leave of my s...

Don’t mention Regensburg

kraków fifteen years after the september 11 attacks, and 10 years after benedict xvi’s address at regensburg, pope francis has adopted the c...

Fr Raymond de Souza