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hobbs, new mexico virgin mary statue is ‘weeping olive oil’ a seven-foot bronze statue of the virgin mary appears to be weeping tears compos...

Accountability at the Vatican: Special treatment

the mccarrick case has revealed a defect in the system if the allegations against cardinal theodore mccarrick are true, they represent a mic...

Christopher R. Altieri

British schools: Can Catholic RE survive?

a new challenge to the bishops’ authority in the last few years a series of reports have called for major reforms to religious education. th...

Dallas Charter: Back to the drawing board

do the current child protection norms need a radical overhaul? the scandal of cardinal theodore mccarrick’s alleged abuse has just become ev...

Michael Warren Davis

Consecrated virgins: Body and soul

the vatican has caused alarm by saying consecrated virgins need not be virgins since 1970, when the rite of consecration of virgins was rein...

Diary: by Fr Michael Ward

to birmingham, to be ordained priest. the car journey north from my home in the suburbs of oxford starts out by taking me past newman road i...

Fr Michael Ward

Forty years of clashing with the Church

a famous leftist revolutionary, hoping to shore up electoral support, backs a strict pro-life law. a government minister genuflects in front...

Bishops on the barricades

shaky video footage shows priests processing with the blessed sacrament through the low-walled streets of sébaco. this is no ordinary day in...

Fr Raymond J de Souza: A millennial problem

is pope francis, like donald trump, guilty of abject capitulation to russia’s vladimir putin? that question was raised by one of the most re...

Fr Raymond de Souza