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Contraception hasn't reduced demand for abortion

it was announced last week that terminations of pregnancy in the united kingdom had reached the highest number ever. more than 205,000 abort...

Not all conservative Catholics are unsettled by Francis's pontificate

since the 2016 presidential election, arguing has rapidly supplanted baseball as america’s national pastime. middle aged-men now congregate ...

Michael Warren Davis

Diary: I hope Boris proves his old tutor wrong

what a pleasure it is to listen to the vatican news in latin – or hebdomada papae, notitiae vaticanae latine redditae , to give the broadcas...

'We could have done better': an interview with Cardinal Versaldi

the folks at the congregation for catholic education were surprised, apparently, by the reaction to the document they released last week on ...

Christopher R. Altieri

World news: from Ecuador to Eritrea

paris first mass in notre-dame since fire notre-dame cathedral has seen its first mass since the fire which devastated the roof. archbishop ...

The best of the web: Wickedness, monasticism and bad translations

the mysteries of love and wickedness at just thomism, james chastek meditated on god’s goodness and human wickedness. “the ceaseless sacchar...

My grandfather's D-Day sacrifice

on the morning of june 6, while theresa may, president macron, and elderly veterans attended the unveiling of the new british normandy memor...

Prize crossword 0597

cryptic across 5 main tour planned is a beast in ancient crete (8) 7 kick from the spirit of the age i get, i sadly miss (4) 9 transport ran...

Don't alter the Our Father

many years ago, when my father found himself in an international setting, someone asked him – i believe it was a hungarian linguist – what t...

Ann Widdecombe: I was branded a 'vile' bigot for opinions I don't hold

free speech in the uk is supposedly guaranteed under article 10 of the human rights act 1998. the act specifies that such a right is limited...