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Meanwhile: Pray and display

a church in avezzano, central italy, has put a “pray and display” sign in its car park. fr vincenzo de mario of the madonna del passo church...

The best of the web: Iceland's booming Church, Quietism, and perfect contrition

iceland’s churches are filling up fast in 1994, iceland’s catholics made up just one per cent of the population, wrote lea müller at the rey...

The week ahead: Newman museum, purgatory, and the ordinariate

the museum of st john henry newman, at the oratory of st philip neri in birmingham, is now open. for the first time, the new saint’s possess...

Overlooked: Sri Lanka terror report blames spy chief

what happened?   a sri lankan parliamentary committee has concluded that the state intelligence service chief was responsible for inte...

The big story: Amazon synod calls for married priests

what happened?   the contentious amazon synod has come to an end, with bishops approving a document that calls for married priests in t...

In ten years we'll know if the synod succeeded

the word “revolutionary” has been overused since the election of pope francis in 2013. but it might apply to the amazon synod which conclude...

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At Newman's canonisation, Roman babble was reduced to total silence

it felt as if we were in a film. rustling birds announced the approach of dawn in the eternal city. a tinkle came from the convent in the ga...

David Twiston Davies

Heretic of the week: Peter Deunov

peter deunov (1864-1944) was born in the village of nikolaevka to the first bulgarian orthodox priest ever to replace old church slavonic wi...

Charles Coulombe

Prize crossword 0616

cryptic across 7 camouflaged crusader chap’s hard-wearing uniforms on sundays? (6,7) 8 where paul landed against the tide, going west, is th...

How to… Avoid idolatry

catholics have always been great destroyers of pagan idols. st artemius, a roman administrator, was executed for vandalising the temples of ...

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