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Meanwhile: Facebook removes St Augustine's hate speech

st augustine of hippo has been targeted by facebook for ‘‘hate speech’’. two priests quoted the 5th-century saint’s warning a...

The best of the web: Notre Dame, Duterte, and the decline of a godless church

notre-dame’s close call: the inside story the new york times “conducted scores of interviews and reviewed hundreds of documents” for a long ...

The week ahead: Summer fair, prayer for priests, acts of reparation

saturday august 3 is the westminster cathedral summer fair, from 11am to 3pm in the cathedral hall. pimms will be served at this fundraising...

The big story: Cardinal deplores synod document's 'false teaching'

what happened the vatican’s former doctrinal chief has criticised the preparatory document for the amazon synod, claiming that it conta...

It won't be easy to shore up religious freedom

in the decade from 2007 to 2017, religious freedom declined around the world. that is the conclusion of a major new study by the pew re...

The Catholic Herald

God speaks to us in every event of our lives

the problem in the world and in the churches, the american theologian jim wallis suggests, is that perennially conservatives get it wro...

Fr Ronald Rolheiser

Heretic of the week: Ignatius Loyola Donnelly

ignatius loyola donnelly (1831-1901) was born in philadelphia to an irish catholic immigrant family. his father, a doctor, died young, and h...

Charles Coulombe

Prize crossword 0602

cryptic across 5 pope in rome, number thirteen connected to st lucia – that’s high (8,3) 7 game with horses left mess all around (4) 8 herb’...

How to… Use holy medals

there is a theory that the use of holy medals in the catholic church might have originated from pagan practices, when missionaries christian...

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The hardest thing about my last 20 years as a priest

in the days before there were memes, evangelical churches used to display catchy posters on their noticeboards. they included “ch —ch. what’...

Fr Dominic Allain