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✣   highlights from the week online the end of catholics’ ‘grand narrative’? the economist’s erasmus blog raised a topical question: “i...

Bishop establishes centre for Old Mass in Devon

bishop mark o’toole of plymouth has established a permanent base for the traditional latin mass in devon. a sunday morning mass in the extra...

New magazine targets Scotland’s future priests

the church in scotland has launched a new magazine aimed at encouraging young men to consider the priesthood. a print run of 15,000 was dist...

Francis names delegate to Order of Malta

pope francis has named archbishop angelo becciu, vatican substitute secretary of state, as his special delegate and spokesman to the order o...

Iraqi archbishop to help ISIS victims go home

archbishop bashar warda of erbil has unveiled plans to provide a future for iraq’s displaced christians – despite fresh reports showing the ...

German cardinals clash over Amoris Laetitia

the debate over communion for the remarried has intensified, after the vatican’s doctrinal chief and the council of german bishops made diam...

Breakthrough in communist Vietnam

an american archbishop has joined his counterparts in vietnam to mark the opening of the first college-level catholic school in the country ...

In brief

francis and trump could meet in may pope francis and the new us president donald trump are likely to meet for the first time in may, it was ...

The ‘translation wars’ are not over

under benedict xvi, the outlook for liturgical conservatives in the church looked more promising than ever. two of benedict’s most significa...

Madeleine Teahan

Pope Francis’s traditionalists

on the weekend that posters of a scowling pope francis were plastered over rome by traditionalists protesting against his “bullying” tactics...

Damian Thompson