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ISIS must face justice

the bells of a church in bartella rang out last week for the first time since 2014. that was the year isis captured the town which lies 13 m...

The big story of the past seven days

✣   trump booed at catholic fundraiser what happened? republican presidential candidate donald trump was booed at an annual catholic ch...

The best of the Catholic blogosphere

✣   highlights from the week online a towering leader in an ‘age of giants’ on the feast day of st john paul ii last saturday, one cont...

Rosary shrine inaugurated in London

cardinal vincent nichols has inaugurated a new shrine dedicated to the rosary at the dominican church of our lady of the rosary and st domin...

Pope’s friend: critics of Francis love Putin

the opponents of pope francis have indirect links to vladimir putin, according to a writer who has been called the pope’s “favourite journal...

Rome ‘will recognise’ four Chinese bishops

a breakthrough may be near in the long-running dispute between the holy see and china over the ordination of bishops. according to reuters, ...

Iraqi Christians rejoice but await Mosul’s fall

christians from qaraqosh, south of mosul in iraq, are celebrating after their village was liberated from isis last week, as pope francis den...

‘Follow Mary and punch the Devil’

mary should be our model for a religion that fights for the truth even when it is unpopular, archbishop charles chaput of philadelphia said ...

Are papal critics all Putin fans?

it was a bit like something out of a bad film about the cold war. in a la stampa article last week. andrea tornielli, dubbed by the financia...

Madeleine Teahan

The friendships that history forgot

the first time i attended a service in a catholic church i was 19 years old, and it was the funeral of our friend, the artist kieran mcgoran...

Jenny McCartney