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Why are feminists attacking cathedrals in the Pope's homeland?

If you are opposed to the Church, is setting fire to its buildings the best argument that you can advance against it?

Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith

The kids are all right

it is the fate of every generation to be defined by its extremes. thus young people today are derided as the “snowflake generation”: thin-sk...

The Catholic Herald

The big story of the past seven days

✣  francis enters his fifth year as pope what happened? monday marked the fourth-year anniversary of pope francis’s election as the 266...

The best of the Catholic blogosphere

✣   highlights from the week online is us christianity in a state of emergency? christian bloggers are currently debating a new book fr...

Gove: May is ‘first Catholic prime minister’

theresa may is effectively “britain’s first catholic prime minister”, the former education secretary michael gove has claimed. in an article...

MP: we need to ‘chip away’ at Catholic schools

a recording of an mp discussing how to end catholic education in scotland has been condemned as “chilling” by a bishops’ conference official...

Secularists face long-term decline, claims study

secularism will decline worldwide while religion grows, according to a new study in the journal evolutionary psychological science. the find...

Father of Spain’s ‘largest family’ dies

the father of a family reputed to be the largest in spain has died aged 56 after a battle with cancer. josé maria chema postigo and his wife...

Married priests are back on the agenda

in 2005, at a vatican synod on the eucharist, cardinal angelo scola floated a trial balloon. “to confront the issue of the shortage of pries...