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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...

The Catholic Herald

God speaks to us in every event of our lives

the problem in the world and in the churches, the american theologian jim wallis suggests, is that perennially conservatives get it wro...

Fr Ronald Rolheiser

Boris was a great boss, but I wouldn't vote for him

this time next week, if the opinion polls and experts are to be trusted – and they seldom are – boris johnson will be prime minister. it is ...

The hardest thing about my last 20 years as a priest

in the days before there were memes, evangelical churches used to display catchy posters on their noticeboards. they included “ch —ch. what’...

Fr Dominic Allain

Tippett was silly and pretentious, but his works are masterpieces

michael tippett: the biography by oliver soden weidenfeld and nicolson, 768pp, £25/$34.95 it’s virtually a law of nature that composers fall...

The cautionary tale of Pastor Amy

trouble roils manhattan’s riverside church, the neo-gothic behemoth on the upper west side that serves as one of the enduring bastions of am...

The moon landings? We were more interested in Ted Kennedy

fifty years on, the moon landing of july 1969 still seems an extraordinary feat: perhaps even more extraordinary in retrospect, as the accom...

Is Big Tech trying to suppress the pro-life movement?

donald trump and elizabeth warren have both made headlines this past week, accusing social media companies of aiding and comforting the enem...

Michael Warren Davis