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Overlooked: Vatican pro-life chief: I would hold hand in assisted suicide

what happened? the head of the vatican’s pro-life academy has said that he would hold the hand of someone who chose to die in an assisted su...
Staff writers

'Fresh risk of genocide' to Middle East Christians

middle east christians are at direct risk of a second genocide which threatens them with wipe-out from the lands of the bible – according to...
The Catholic Herald

Cathedral in Iraq's largest Christian town to be rebuilt in 2020

the great al-tahira immaculate conception cathedral in bakhdida remains charred black inside, five years after the islamic state plundered a...
The Catholic Herald

Priests respond to Archbishop Paglia: 'Accompaniment isn't directionless'

after a prominent archbishop commented to journalists last week that he would hold the hand of a person dying of assisted suicide, two pries...
Jonah McKeown/CNA

Priests respond to Archbishop Paglia: 'Accompaniment isn't directionless'

after a prominent archbishop commented to journalists last week that he would hold the hand of a person dying of assisted suicide, two pries...
Jonah McKeown/CNA

Pope Francis lifts pontifical secret from legal proceedings of abuse trials of clerics

pope francis has declared that the pontifical secret will no longer apply in cases of accusations and trials involving abuse of minors or vu...
Hannah Brockhaus/CNA

Continuing the hunt for a fabled GK Chesterton quote

over two years ago, i published a ch article about trying – and roundly failing – to verify g. k. chesterton’s famous answer to the question...
Stephen Bullivant

Dorothy Day: A saint in the making

we are all interested in lives of the saints – those extraordinary men and women who show the rest of us what it really means (and costs) to...
Francis Phillips

Senior Victoria cops said Pell investigation could distract from major police scandal

senior police officials in the australian state of victoria discussed by email the way that their 2014 investigation into cardinal george pe...
Ed Condon/CNA

For Gaza Christians, no Christmas travels to Bethlehem and Jerusalem

church leaders in jerusalem are appealing to israeli authorities to reverse a decision that prohibits the christmastime travel permits that ...
Catholic News Agency