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✣ highlights from the week online the church needs better seminaries to tackle the sexual abuse crisis, the church must reform its seminarie...

The Wigan teacher who bore the stigmata

teresa higginson was oblivious to the blood trickling down her neck and on to her white scarf as she emerged from the church where she had b...

The big story of the past seven days

✣ federal abuse investigation launched what happened? federal prosecutors in the united states have launched an investigation into the handl...

Killing fields

the death of 55 people in clashes between christians and muslims in nigeria last week was barely reported in the international media. the ki...

The Catholic Herald

What makes young people cringe

a tour of spain with the wonderful schola cantorum of the cardinal vaughan memorial school affords a brief break from news media. no interne...

Fr Dominic Allain

Prize crossword 0565

cryptic across 5 nice almuce worn to a particular church council (10) 7 diminutive girl’s drone about to land in central american (6) 8 cler...

RR Reno: A New Yorker in England

i journeyed to fair albion to provide a lecture at oxford university, sponsored by the thomistic institute at blackfriars, around which accu...

How the beauty of Catholic art helped to rescue the Church from confusion

Amid the apocalyptic landscape of the Reformation, the Church needed saints and theologians - but also painters and sculptors

The Wigan teacher who bore the stigmata

Her Cause is currently stalled, but bishops are taking a renewed interest in Teresa Higginson

Pope Francis: Marriage prep should be more than a few parish meetings

'One cannot say marriage preparation is three or four conferences given in the parish. This is not preparation'

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