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Cause of Fr Jacques Hamel is officially opened

The Archbishop of Rouen announced the news at a Chrism Mass
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What death cannot hold

whenever we say the creed, we profess our belief in two resurrections. first we affirm our conviction that “on the third day he rose again”....
Fr Julian Large

The big story of the past seven days

✣  pope opens way to recognising sspx marriages what happened? pope francis has made a concession to the society of st pius x (sspx) by...
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The best of the Catholic blogosphere

✣ highlights from the week online the religious who tracks down the dead alfa y omega, a magazine of the madrid archdiocese, interviewed a r...
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May attacks ‘ridiculous’ airbrushing of Easter

theresa may has criticised the national trust after the word “easter” was dropped from its annual egg hunt, calling the decision “absolutely...
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Study: don’t judge Church schools on free meals

the number of children who receive free school meals (fsm) is a misleading indicator of a school’s socio-economic composition, catholic acad...
Madeleine Teahan

Small drop in number of priests worldwide

the number of priests in the world dropped by 136 during 2015, the vatican has reported. the increased number of priests in african dioceses...
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Parents to Pope: help us find our son’s killers

the parents of a student tortured to death in egypt have urged pope francis to take up the case during his forthcoming trip to the country. ...
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Papal envoy praises Medjugorje’s ‘climate’

pope francis’s envoy to medjugorje has said that “there is a special spiritual climate” in the town. archbishop henryk hoser of warsaw-praga...
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News in brief

francis names priest to oversee abuse cases pope francis has named mgr john kennedy as head of the discipline section of the congregation of...
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