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washington, dc ‘we need answers’: catholic women appeal to pope francis more than 30,000 catholic women have signed a letter to pope francis...
Staff writers

Roman Curia: Five years on tenterhooks

officials are adrift as the vatican reels from one crisis to the next back in january, the question on everyone’s mind was: will the curial ...
Christopher R. Altieri

Viganò letter: Disunited front

the pope’s american allies don’t seem to be wholly in harmony since pope francis’s election, the us conference of catholic bishops has incre...
Michael Warren Davis

The world’s salvation

amid the darkness in the world and the church, there is one constant source of light it is hard to imagine a more pressing priority than ren...
Bishop Mark Davies

From ‘Easter people’ to Eucharistic people

the bishops want to encourage the great revival of eucharistic adoration in our parishes this weekend somewhere in the region of 10,000 pilg...
Bishop Robert Byrne

Fr Raymond J de Souza: The pontifical secret after Viganò

whatever the truth or falsity of the claims made by archbishop carlo maria viganò in his “testimony” calling for the resignation of pope fra...
Fr Raymond de Souza

Last rites for a dying class

my deepest condolences to donald trump on the occasion of john mccain’s funeral. mr trump wasn’t invited, you see. everyone else was: presid...
Tim Stanley

The next big thing

ancient liturgy, bollywood rhythms and stadium-filling enthusiasm: syro-malabar catholics are reinvigorating the church in the north west th...
Neil Addison

The first sons of Tyburn

an event of historic significance in the life of the catholic church took place at a private ceremony in france last month, witnessed by a s...
Simon Caldwell

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