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Francis calls for youth synod creativity- How will U.S. bishops answer the call?

Several members of the US delegation are known as original thinkers and leaders

Where do Catholics and feminists agree? – An interview with Professor Tracey Rowland

Some feminists see the pill as an 'unnecessary technological intervention in a woman’s body'

Francis Phillips

The bishops who’ve never seen their dioceses

For centuries, the Vatican has relied on the legal fiction of titular sees. Their history is more fraught than you might expect

Alice Nutter: a witch – or a secret Catholic?

In 1612, a judge condemned 10 people to death for witchcraft. Was one of them a recusant Catholic?

Dominic Selwood

Don’t be fooled by China

The communist regime has a much clearer game plan than we have in the West

A Pentecostal truce

even keen rome observers missed the speech that pope francis gave to the pontifical council for promoting christian unity last week. that is...

The Catholic Herald

The big story of the past seven days

✣ pope francis defends deal with china what happened? pope francis defended his deal with china, first to journalists on the papal plane and...

The best of the web

✣ highlights from the week online how st cuthbert kept a book for 300 years at jstor daily, allison meier described the history of “europe’s...

In brief

rome bishops: meeting with pope was ‘remarkable and intimate’ the bishops of england and wales have described their two-hour meeting with po...

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