Catholic Church

Bishop: the West Country is mission territory

bishop mark o’toole of plymouth has called on every catholic in his diocese to be a “disciple-making disciple”. in a pastoral message, the b...

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✣ highlights from the week online the roots of ‘may the force be with you’ the well-known star wars phrase “may the force be with you” is mo...

Coptic Pope Tawadros II visits flock in Britain

coptic orthodox pope tawadros ii arrived in britain for his first pastoral visit last friday. he visited coptic parishes across the country...

Vatican investigates order over euthanasia

the vatican is investigating the decision of a group of psychiatric care centres run by a catholic religious order in belgium to permit doct...

Cardinal who converted captors declared Venerable

pope francis has signed a decree declaring vietnamese cardinal françois nguyen van thuan as venerable. the decree confirms that cardinal van...

Boko Haram frees 82 schoolgirls

eighty-two of the schoolgirls abducted by boko haram three years ago have been released. they were among 276 girls taken from their school i...

Does Trump’s order change anything?

in 2015, a government inspector at a michigan meatpacking factory found some offensive material in the lunch room: a “tract” – we don’t know...

Fr John Bollan: How my students caused a power cut in Rome

i’m just back from a few days in rome with 39 pupils from st columba’s high school in gourock, where i’m currently chaplain. anyone who’s be...

Fatima at 100: Signs from heaven

sunday, may 13, 1917 would prove to be an auspicious day, both for the catholic church and for the whole tumultuous course of the 20th centu...

Stephen Bullivant

Fatima at 100: Can a scientist take Fatima seriously?

the question in the headline implies that the expected answer is “no”, but as a former particle physicist, my response is “why not?” contrar...

Fr Andrew Pinsent