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What Leana Wen didn't know

last week, the department of health and human services announced that clinics referring mothers for abortion services would no longer be abl...

What I discovered when I wrote a play about Cherie Blair

as a catholic, i’ve always been fascinated by cherie blair, who was born in 1954 and raised in crosby, a suburb of liverpool with a long-sta...

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The cardinal struggling to quell a priestly rebellion

the syro-malabar catholic church is in fresh turmoil this week, after its leader faced protests over fraud allegations against him. car...

Iraqi immigrants supported Trump. So why is his administration deporting them?

poor st thomas is the only apostle remembered not for his faith, but for his doubt. and yet, having placed his hands in christ’s wounds...

Michael Warren Davis

Planned Parenthood's nightmare month

planned parenthood has had a bad month. its president left the organisation last week after serving for less than a year, the trump administ...

The Amazon synod has a distinctly German flavour

we're still three months away, and already the chatter around the special assembly of the synod of bishops for the pan-amazon region has rea...

Christopher R. Altieri

World News: from Kinshasa to Katuwapitiya

washington, dc archdiocese tight-lipped on mccarrick payouts the archdiocese of washington has declined to comment on ex-cardinal theodore m...

Meanwhile: Facebook removes St Augustine's hate speech

st augustine of hippo has been targeted by facebook for ‘‘hate speech’’. two priests quoted the 5th-century saint’s warning a...

Overlooked: Parents fight hospital to treat child abroad

what happened? two british parents are asking the high court for permission to take their daughter to italy, after a dispute with doctors ov...

It won't be easy to shore up religious freedom

in the decade from 2007 to 2017, religious freedom declined around the world. that is the conclusion of a major new study by the pew re...

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