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The best of the web: A Jesuit empire, Newman's holy fear, an unexpected conversion

jesuit goals weren’t purely spiritual   were jesuit missionaries religious or political?   the answer is both, said samuel gregg a...
Staff writers

The big story: Statues thrown in Tiber during synod’s final week

what happened? a catholic has thrown three controversial   statues into rome’s river tiber, before posting a video of the incident onli...
Staff writers

The regrets of the man who volunteered to go to Auschwitz

the volunteer by jack fairweather custom house, 528pp, £20/$28.99 who on earth would volunteer to enter auschwitz? it sounds like suicide an...
Ben Sixsmith

Letters: 'Services of the Word' offer no offence to God

services of the word are no offence to god sir – in his letter (october 11) donato tallo terms the practice of liturgies of the word and hol...
The Catholic Herald

The Irish border is already ambiguous

fears are sometimes expressed that if brexit goes pear-shaped, and the united kingdom leaves the eu without a deal, terrorism could return t...
Mary Kenny

Diary: St Peter's has become a cathedral of selfie-dom

i wasn’t able to attend the prayer vigil in the basilica di santa maria maggiore before the canonisation of john henry newman in rome as our...
William Cash

Priestly celibacy has dominated the first half of the synod

the first week of the special assembly of the synod of bishops for the amazon is in the books. by the time this edition reaches newsstands, ...
Christopher R. Altieri

World news: from the Mexican border to Manila

washington, dc little sisters appeal against contraceptive mandate the little sisters of the poor have filed a petition with the supreme cou...
Staff writers

The big story: John Henry Newman declared a saint

what happened? john henry newman has been declared the first non-martyr english saint since the 14th century. at a mass of canonisation in t...
Staff writers

Duterte's crisis is an opportunity for the Church

the drugs war in the philippines is a “sham”, a bishop declared last week in one of the strongest critiques by a churchman since the conflic...
The Catholic Herald