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Why the Book of Jonah is full of enigma, by Pierbattista Pizzaballa OFM

there are many biblical books that fascinate me, from both the old and the new testaments. reading genesis, exodus and the psalms always mov...

Pierbattista Pizzaballa OFM

Pope offers indulgences for World Day for Elderly and Grandparents

rome – pope francis has authorised the granting of plenary indulgences to those who participate in the upcoming world day for elderly and gr...

London priest appointed to lead mission to Falkland Islands

the dicastery for evangelisation has appointed father tom thomas as apostolic administrator of the prefecture of the falkland islands. fr th...

The Catholic Herald

EDITORIAL: What are we to make of JD Vance, especially his turn to Catholicism?

jd vance is the star speaker tonight at the third and final night of the 15-18 july republican national convention. his appearance follows t...

The Catholic Herald

The Catholic running mate with the Hindu wife

the religious faith of trump running mate jd vance – who converted to catholicism in 2019 – is gathering wider scrutiny because his wife is ...

The Catholic Herald

Woman shoots man in church as faithful gathered to pray rosary

são paulo, brazil – an unknown woman entered a church in cali, colombia, as the attendees prepared to pray the rosary before mass and shot a...

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A new Mount Carmel in Oxfordshire: the young friars following St. Teresa of Ávila

in some of oxfordshire's most beautiful countryside there is a discalced carmelite community continuing a charism that dates back to the twe...

Refusal of Communion to minister over abortion vote causes rift in Irish Church

a rift has emerged within the irish catholic church after it emerged that a priest had refused communion to an irish politician because he h...

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Devotion to two Marian appearances approved by Vatican as ‘signs of grace and spiritual conversion’

since unveiling a new set of norms for evaluating the validity of alleged marian apparitions and other spiritual phenomena, the vatican has ...

Catholics fighting for power on both political sides after Trump’s VP nomination

former us president donald trump’s choice of j.d. vance as his vice-presidential running mate means that if president joe biden stays in the...