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Should bishops be giving financial gifts to one another?

the us bishops arrive in baltimore next week for their second plenary meeting in the year of serious crisis that began last june. they will ...

Morning Catholic must-reads: 07/06/19

pope francis has appointed a delegate to oversee the pastoral care of lourdes pilgrims. honduran bishops have issued a message expressing gr...

Even holy people are scared of death

"a common soldier dies without fear; jesus died afraid.” iris murdoch wrote those words which, i believe, help expose an over-simplistic not...

Fr Ronald Rolheiser

Prize crossword 0596

cryptic across 3 a gumboil not treated here is the end for saul (5,6) 7 first to come from ancient synagogues in a region around ephesus (4)...

D-Day's forgotten chaplains

in this week remembering the d-day normandy landings, i would like to have heard more about the role played by the christian chaplains who a...

How a veteran reporter became Australia's defender of the faith

everybody knows that there is still one rule that keeps our civilisation intact: keep quiet about religion and politics. or at the very leas...

He lost his family home to ISIS. Now he's returning as Archbishop of Mosul

Mgr Nizar Semaan lost his family home to ISIS. Now, as Archbishop of Mosul, he must rebuild a community

Papal interviews have become almost entirely secular

the recent interview granted by pope francis to mexican television generated news for what he said about theodore mccarrick and the present ...

Fr Raymond de Souza

Did religious freedom swing the Australian election?

as political commentators scratch their heads wondering how labor lost an “unlosable election”, some commentators are suggesting that religi...

The debate abortion advocates don't want to have

the us supreme court upheld indiana’s law requiring the remains of abortion victims be interred or cremated on may 28, in a decision that hi...