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Heretic of the week: John Nelson Darby

john nelson darby (1800-1882) was the most prominent co-founder of the plymouth brethren, a group which has numbered many famous names among...

Charles Coulombe

Letters: Muslims are looking to bishops for support on sex education

muslim community is looking to bishops sir – professor david paton’s warning to catholic bishops to support parents in standing up to state ...

The Catholic Herald

The saint whose life was 'a history of failures'

john henry newman’s life can well be described as one of continual failures, if only because that was how he saw it. “all through life thing...

Why 'evangelisation' is a taboo word for some Amazonian Catholics

bishop adolfo zon pereira of alto solimões, in the brazilian state of amazonas, became animated as he cited the preamble of the amazon synod...

Is Notre Dame a safe space for outspoken Catholics?

a hard-edged protest at america’s top catholic university has some conservative students fearing for their safety and wondering why the admi...

A Vatican money mystery that leads back to London

the vatican police “raided” offices in the secretariat of state and the financial oversight office known as the financial information author...

Christopher R. Altieri

World news: from Baton Rouge to Belfast

steubenville, ohio new university president hopes for ‘unity’ the new president of the franciscan university of steubenville has said he hop...

Quotes of the week

"one of england’s great intellects being declared a saint is beyond a once-in-a-lifetime event" sir edward leigh press release from parliame...

Meanwhile: marathon nun and feathered headdresses

“i’m kind of an extreme person,” sister stephanie baliga says. the franciscan is about to run her tenth marathon. it’s a way to raise money ...

The best of the web: de-transitioning, young pro-lifers, Catholic refugees

trans people who ‘seek to reverse the process’ many transgender people who have had surgery to “change their sex” are now seeking to reverse...