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Holy Communion given to Muslim and Protestant politicians at Mass celebrated by German bishops

a muslim politician and at least one protestant politician have received communion at masses celebrated by bishops during a multi-day cathol...
CNA Staff

Brick-by-brick Civil War thriller

the siege of loyalty house: a civil war story jessie childs bodley head, £25, 336 pages for a place that witnessed the longest and bloodiest...
John Adamson

On pilgrimage with Eamon Duffy

where would you go?  to skellig michael. i went there in 1989 after my mother died and i had become rather agitated about my irish iden...
The Catholic Herald

The month of roses

roses, in my garden at least, are now at their best. over the last 10 years, i have created a slightly mad garden over about five acres. at ...
charlie-hart

There is no human right to abortion

in 1973 in the roe v wade case, the supreme court legalised abortion throughout the united states.  now, almost fifty years later ...
David Albert Jones

Biden twists Catholic teaching to defend abortion up to birth

president joe biden has asserted that no “mainstream” religion claims to know when human life begins, contradicting his catholic faith. bide...
Katie Yoder

A requiem for a Church

a people’s church: a history of the church of england by jeremy morris profile books, £30, 480 pages the defining and unhappy image of the r...
William Davage

Priest stabbed repeatedly at church in France

a 72-year-old religious sister has been praised for her “extraordinary courage” after she sought to disarm a man stabbing a priest at a cath...
CNA Staff

After the FSSP’s dispensation from Traditiones Custodes, how firm is the ground on which the Ecclesia Dei institutes rest?

reeling from two blows to liturgical traditionalists in july and december 2021, the priestly fraternity of saint peter (fssp) attained a deg...
Tom Colsy

Pope Francis consecrates Russia and Ukraine to Immaculate Heart of Mary

pope francis has consecrated russia and ukraine to the immaculate heart of mary with a prayer asking for peace in the world. at the end of a...
Hannah Brockhaus