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pope francis gave one of the most puzzling interviews of his pontificate back in january. speaking to asia times, in what was billed as his ...

Staff writers

even as pope francis wins the applause of the world for giving catholicism a friendlier face, critics have started to grumble. on social med...

Matthew Schmitz

you don’t need to have a phd in ottoman studies to grasp the fact that what’s happening in turkey is a reflection of what is occurring throu...

Mary Kenny

how odd that scorn for russia, and fear of that country, have become fashionable in western countries even – sometimes especially – among co...

Peter Hitchens

‘when i drove marilyn to work we mainly used to listen to the radio, but since the course started we talk, nineteen to the dozen, about the ...

Quentin de la Bedoyere

last year, three leaves of an ancient koran held at the university of birmingham made global headlines when carbon dating suggested that the...

Daniel Kalder

perhaps in anticipation of the lengthy debates over leave or remain that would rage a year later, my son took his time deciding to exit the ...

Niall Gooch

cryptic across 7 i hear you french make magic mumbo-jumbo (6) 8 sports venues christians like to stay on the perimeter of, not near? (6) 9 d...

Alun Evans

it has been a weekend of ordinations and first masses. our diocese has three new priests, praise god. the first mass of a newly ordained pri...

Pastor Iuventus

cardinal nichols (westminster) sun – tue: diocesan pilgrimage to lourdes. wed – sat: world youth day, kraków, poland. archbishop longley (bi...

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