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pope francis told journalists on saturday that their profession has a great responsibility, the foundation of which should be humility. “hum...

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“the only force capable of transforming our heart is the love of jesus,” pope francis said at yesterday’s regína caeli ( full text , full vi...

Luke Coppen

a scientist and educational pioneer will be the first opus dei lay member to be beatified. guadalupe ortiz was a spanish chemist who worked ...

Fr Joseph Evans

the vatican announced friday that the next world meeting of families will focus on the vocation of married life as a path to holiness with a...

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the archdiocese of detroit has announced that it will no longer hold required sporting events on sundays, in an effort to refocus the day on...

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south sudan’s president salva kiir mayardit has said he “was shocked and trembled” when the pope kissed his feet. a former official at the c...

Luke Coppen

last november, following the pennsylvania grand jury allegations of episcopal cover-up in clerical abuse cases, the us bishops met in baltim...

C C Pecknold

pro-choice activists have long argued that prayer vigils outside abortion clinics constitute a form of “harassment” towards women who come t...

Michael Warren Davis

a reporter once asked two men at the construction site where a church was being built what each did for a living. the first man replied: “i’...

Fr Ronald Rolheiser

winston churchill said that “the mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailin...

Andrew M Brown