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Bomb attack on Coptic church kills 24 worshippers

isis has claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing at a church in cairo that killed 24 christians. the terrorist group named the bomber a...

Pope asks world leaders to ‘banish violence’

pope francis has called for a new style of politics built on peace and pleaded for disarmament, the eradication of nuclear weapons and an en...

The rediscovery of Catholic art

in 1563, a year before his son was born, john shakespeare was given an unpleasant job. as chamberlain of the corporation of stratford, he wa...

Libby Purves: Is my crib hobby getting out of hand?

the other day, in a brief, frivolous chunnel-hop to lille christmas market, i tried to reclaim a mental map of what was my home town in the ...

Martin Scorsese interview: ‘Catholicism is always in you’

martin scorsese is talking about vocations. it’s s a subject he knows something about, having studied at a seminary when he was a young man....

Gabrielle Donnelly

A success story in fighting homelessness

caritas anchor house grabbed the headlines last year when, after an epic struggle with hmrc, it forced the taxman to give up its quest to fo...

The party must go on – yes, into February

one of the downsides of starting christmas so soon is that it finishes too soon. obviously, if the season starts commercially just after hal...

Melanie McDonagh

The saint with Aristotle on his finger

washington dc martin scorsese’s newly released film about jesuit missionaries in japan, silence, joins other films on the courageous jesuit ...

Fr Raymond de Souza

The silence that makes us tremble

nicolas diat: what connection do you make between silence and the sacred? cardinal robert sarah: the idea of the sacred is particularly misu...

Cardinal Robert Sarah

Comments of the Week

the attacks on pope francis are reminiscent of the pharisees testing jesus sir – the wolves are circling around pope francis. a quick search...

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