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Abortion decree is extended beyond Year of Mercy

pope francis is allowing all priests to absolve the “grave sin” of abortion, extending special permission he had granted them for the holy y...
Staff writers

What will bring peace to Syria?

the worst thing about living in aleppo? according to jean-clément jeanbart, the local catholic archbishop, it’s the anxiety. christians in a...
Dan Hitchens

Fr Alexander Sherbrooke: The saints go marching into Soho

in these last few days we have welcomed the relics of st claude de la colombière and st margaret mary alacoque to the streets and the centre...
Fr Alexander Sherbrooke

After ISIS, there are more horrors to come

islamist “hyper-extremism” is not only destroying the multi-faith ecology of the middle east but also threatening parts of africa and the we...
Rupert Shortt

The order of unsung heroes

‘between believers, we have a better understanding of each other,” the grand hospitaller of the order of malta tells me. he is characteristi...
Constance Watson

The Reformation’s whipping boy

johann tetzel, the german dominican friar and preacher of indulgences, is a favourite whipping boy for students of the protestant “reformati...
Dave Armstrong

The ultimate wake-up call

first week of advent 'to live is to change, to be perfect is to have changed often.” this simple saying of blessed john henry newman can mak...
Mgr John Armitage

Who is the real Stephen Bannon?

few people in american history have been savaged so viciously by the press as donald trump during this year’s election. but the media quickl...
Michael Warren Davis

Mary Kenny: Spare us the feminist fairy tales

the most uplifting interpretation of beauty and the beast that i ever saw was the movie made by jean cocteau in 1946, la belle et la bête. i...
Mary Kenny

Comments of the Week

the ordinariate needs its own churches sir – i had the pleasure of attending the ordinariate mass discussed by stephen bullivant in his rece...
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