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Morning Catholic must-reads: 17/01/20

protesters have disrupted the installation mass of the new archbishop of santiago, chile. two kidnapped syrian bishops were killed in 2016 ,...

Labour leadership candidate criticised over abortion stance

the frontrunner in the leadership contest for britain’s labour party has been criticised by the media and her fellow labour mps for opposing...

The Benedict-Sarah book shows how to defend priestly celibacy

various things conspire to bring on the january blues, like the fact that i have paid several hundred pounds in motoring fines in the past m...

Fr Dominic Allain

Why Lithuania's history disturbs Chinese communists

lithuanians were recently shocked by video footage of a chinese tourist throwing away a small pro-hong kong cross at the country’s hill of c...

The Catholic Herald

The KKK's Prohibition-era war on the Church

in 1923 a local ku klux klan newspaper grumbled about events in gary, indiana. enforcement of prohibition legislation (which came into effec...

Jonathan Wright

Planned Parenthood is worried

planned parenthood released its annual report last week. the company performed 345,672 abortion procedures in the 2018-2019 fiscal year – ea...

The end of Iraqi Christianity?

when iran’s general qasem soleimani was killed in a us drone strike in baghdad, iraq’s christians had good reason to be afraid. although the...

London's nearly perfect pub

last wednesday, at 9pm, i had a splendid choice of murder programmes to watch. there was white house farm, about the 1985 jeremy bamber murd...

Dialogue and drones: the US Church reflects on Soleimani

the american drone strike that killed an iranian general on january 3 prompted calls for peace from catholic leaders in the us, and a debate...

A twist in the Tafida story

the directors of the gaslini children’s hospital in genoa last week called a press conference about progress in the condition of one of thei...